{"id":15528,"date":"2024-02-14T00:46:23","date_gmt":"2024-02-14T00:46:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/2024\/02\/14\/biden-garners-67k-tiktok-followers-on-first-day-using-chinese-owned-app-he-banned-over-security-concerns\/"},"modified":"2024-02-14T00:46:23","modified_gmt":"2024-02-14T00:46:23","slug":"biden-garners-67k-tiktok-followers-on-first-day-using-chinese-owned-app-he-banned-over-security-concerns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/2024\/02\/14\/biden-garners-67k-tiktok-followers-on-first-day-using-chinese-owned-app-he-banned-over-security-concerns\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden garners 67K TikTok followers on first day using Chinese-owned app he banned over security concerns"},"content":{"rendered":"
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President Biden\u2019s new campaign account garnered more than 67,000 TikTok followers in the first day since joining the Chinese-owned app he banned over national security concerns.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The @bidenhq account\u2019s following had jumped even higher to nearly 82,000 followers as of Tuesday morning, with more than 681,300 likes.\u00a0<\/p>\n

That\u2019s still a far cry from Biden\u2019s 37.8 million followers on his campaign account on X, formerly Twitter.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u2018Lol hey guys,\u2019 the first TikTok video on the account, published during the Super Bowl game Sunday, read in the caption. Biden, in khaki slacks and a navy sweater, stood with his hands in his pockets as he was asked a series of questions. Asked \u2018Chiefs or Niners?,\u2019 Biden responded, \u2018Two great quarterbacks, hard to decide, but if I didn\u2019t say I was for the Eagles, then I\u2019d be sleeping alone. My wife\u2019s a Philly girl.\u2019 When challenged on if he preferred the game or commercials or the game or the halftime show, Biden responded game twice.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u2018Jason Kelce or Travis Kelce?\u2019 someone questioned from behind the camera. \u2018Mama Kelce. I understand she makes great chocolate chip cookies,\u2019 Biden said.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u2018Deviously plotting to rig the season so the Chiefs would make the Super Bowl? Or are the Chiefs just being a good football team?\u2019 the voice asked again.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u2018I\u2019d get in trouble if I told you,\u2019 Biden responded, as the video cuts briefly to the Dark Brandon meme.<\/p>\n

\u2018Trump or Biden?\u2019 he\u2019s asked, as the screen shows a side by side of Trump, a bit sunburned, in a Make America Great Again hat and polo, next to Biden seen smiling and wearing a suit in his official headshot. \u2018Are you kidding?\u2019 the president chuckles, concluding the video. \u2018Biden.\u2019<\/p>\n

Biden\u2019s reelection campaign on Monday defended its new TikTok account as a vital way to boost its appeal with young voters, even as his administration continued to raise security concerns about whether the popular social media app might be sharing user data with China\u2019s communist government.<\/p>\n

Biden in 2022 signed legislation banning the use of TikTok by the federal government\u2019s nearly 4 million employees on devices owned by its agencies, with limited exceptions for law enforcement, national security and security research purposes.<\/p>\n

With 150 million U.S. users, TikTok is best known for quick snippets of viral dance routines. But Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., posted on X that Biden\u2019s campaign is \u2018bragging about using a Chinese spy app even though Biden signed a law banning it on all federal devices.\u2019<\/p>\n

\u2018The President\u2019s TikTok debut last night \u2014 with more than 5 million views and counting \u2014 is proof positive of both our commitment and success in finding new, innovative ways to reach voters in an evolving, fragmented, and increasingly personalized media environment,\u2019 Biden reelection deputy campaign manager Rob Flaherty said in a statement Monday.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The Biden campaign said it had been mulling establishing a TikTok account for months and had ultimately done so at the urging of youth activists and organizations, who argued that the app was key to reaching young voters. The campaign said it is using a separate cellphone to engage on TikTok in order to isolate using the app from other workstreams and communications, including emails. The campaign said it was taking additional steps but declined to name them, citing security concerns.<\/p>\n

At the White House, though, national security spokesman John Kirby acknowledged that \u2018there are still national security concerns about the use of TikTok on government devices and there\u2019s been no change to our policy not to allow that.\u2019 Kirby referred most questions about TikTok to the Biden campaign and ducked a more general query about whether it was wise to use the app at all. He said the potential security issues \u2018have to do with concerns about the preservation of data and potential misuse of that data and privacy information by foreign actors.\u2019<\/p>\n

White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said she is not in contact with the campaign and had no advance warning that its TikTok account was going live.<\/p>\n

Both the FBI and the Federal Communications Commission have warned that TikTok\u2019s Chinese owner, ByteDance, could share user data \u2014 such as browsing history, location and biometric identifiers \u2014 with that country\u2019s authoritarian government. Separately, the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States has been reviewing the app for years while trying unsuccessfully to force TikTok ownership to divest from its parent company. The White House said Monday the review is ongoing.<\/p>\n

Another three videos had been added to Biden\u2019s TikTok by Tuesday morning. \u2018Weird brag,\u2019 one was captioned, including clips of former President Trump championing the Supreme Court\u2019s overturning of Roe v. Wade. Another video captioned \u2018lol\u2019 showed Biden making a joke about his memory at a D.C. conference Monday, taking a jab at Special Counsel Robert Hur\u2019s report.<\/p>\n

The latest video on the account was captioned, \u2018He really said that\u2026,\u2019 and showed Trump at a recent South Carolina rally stating he\u2019d encourage Russia to do \u2018whatever the hell they want\u2019 if U.S. allies did not pay their fair share into NATO.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The Associated Press contributed to this report.<\/p>\n\n

This post appeared first on FOX NEWS<\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

President Biden\u2019s new campaign account garnered more than 67,000 TikTok followers in the first day since joining the Chinese-owned app he banned over national security concerns.\u00a0 The @bidenhq account\u2019s following had jumped even higher to nearly 82,000 followers as of Tuesday morning, with more than 681,300 likes.\u00a0 That\u2019s still a far cry from Biden\u2019s 37.8 <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":15529,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-15528","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-politics"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15528","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15528"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15528\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15529"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}