The ex-president donald trump declared on Monday that he continues to believe that TikTok poses a threat to national security, but he is against banning that app because it would benefit Facebook — which he continues to criticize over the issue of his electoral defeat in 2020.
In a telephone interview for the CNBC news channel’s “Squawk Box” program, trump was asked about his statements last week in which he appeared to be against a proposal in Congress that would exclude TikTok and other ByteDance apps from the stores Manzana and Google and American internet servers.
“Frankly, a lot of people love it TikTok. There are a lot of guys on TikTok who would go crazy without it”Trump responded. “There are a lot of good things and a lot of bad things with TikTok. But what I don’t like is that without TikTok, Facebook will get bigger, and I consider Facebook an enemy of the people, just like many other media outlets.”.
“When I think about it, I don’t want to Facebook double its size. I think Facebook has been very bad for our country, especially regarding the elections.”he added.
trump He has repeatedly complained about the role Facebook played in the 2020 election, which to this day Trump refuses to admit he lost to the current president. Joe Biden.
This includes at least US$400 million that the founder of FacebookMark Zuckerberg, and his wife donated to two nonprofit organizations that distributed subsidies to state and municipal governments to help them hold elections when the country was in the midst of the Covid-19 pandemic.
The donations — completely legal under campaign finance laws — were intended for things like paying for equipment to process ballots or voting kiosks.
TikTok, a video-sharing app, has emerged as a major issue in the 2024 presidential campaign. The platform has approximately 170 million users in the United States, mostly young people — a demographic both parties are eagerly trying to attract ahead of time. to the November elections.
Young voters in particular are difficult to reach these days, as they spend less time on traditional platforms like cable television.
Source: Gestion
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