Meta is paying a Republican consulting firm to 'turn the public against' TikTok

[AZProgressive]

Meta, the parent company to Facebook, is paying one of the "biggest Republican consulting firms" in the U.S. to try and "turn the public against" online video app TikTok, The Washington Post reported Wednesday.

The firm Targeted Victory has been working to "undermine" TikTok by implementing a national media and lobbying campaign that places "op-eds and letters to the editor in major regional news outlets, promoting dubious stories about alleged TikTok trends that actually originated on Facebook," the Post writes. The firm has also been pushing political reporters and local politicians to move against TikTok, Facebook's biggest competitor.

Operatives were "encouraged to use TikTok's prominence as a way to deflect from Meta's own privacy and antitrust concerns," the Post reports.

In one example, a Targeted Victory director wrote in a February email that the firm must "get the message out that while Meta is the current punching bag, TikTok is the real threat especially as a foreign owned app that is #1 in sharing data that young teens are using."

https://news.yahoo.com/meta-paying-republican-consulting-firm-143019789.html

[TheRealNorth]

1. We see where Fakebook's priorities lay.....

Not in cleaning up their own product but trying to undermine others.

[PortTack]

2. ☝️☝️☝️

They feel so threatened by TikTok as they over take F..kbook!

Kids of all ages, celebrities, politicians and candidates are using TikTok to reach voters. Especially young voters....and it’s working!

Kids don’t use FB and think it is for their parents...just ask them.

[Celerity]

7. Agree but will add it's our (later stage Millennials and now Gen Z) grandparents who also

make up a large swathe of FB's core base. My grandparents are Boomers and I am not even Gen Z (granted if I had been born 3 and a half months later I technically would be). My parents detest FB (not that they are big TikTokers either, lol, although my MIL sorta is).

[uponit7771]

3. THIS !!!! ☝🏾☝🏾☝🏾

[Lancero]

4. Modern Capitalism in action.

[SWBTATTReg]

5. FB and/or Meta has currently way too much dominance, and now they want to expand it ...

even more? And of course, they're using republican thugs to do the trick.

TikTok is very popular, and I suspect that their efforts will be in vain.

tRump even tried shutting them down when he was mad at the Chinese one time. For allegations that for the most part, never were proven by tRump's incompetent admin. Thus, this latest efforts of Meta and others to 'turn the tide' against TikTok is doomed (as it should be).

[hlthe2b]

6. Don't have to pay anyone to turn them against FB. I'll help do that for Free!

I hate these democracy-destroying, narcissistic, greedy bastards.

[TheBlackAdder]

8. Meta, "life beyond" and that mobius radio wave symbol are all lifted from the TV Series Space 1999.

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You need to watch the first 2-part episode. Meta then reappears in a later episode.

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[2naSalit]

9. fb/M needs to die.

A bane to humanity.

[lame54]

10. The best way for them to do that is...

Joining TikTok