When President Joe Biden showed off his putter skills last month during a campaign event at a public golf course in Michigan, the moment was captured on TikTok.
Due to an intense storm that prevented him from playing on the green, the president competed against Hurley “HJ” Coleman IV, a 13-year-old boy, with shots on a practice mat. The Coleman family posted the video on TikTok, where Biden is seen pocketing the ball and the teenager doing the same and telling the president: “I had to respond.”
The television cameras that usually follow the president’s steps were left outside.
However, Biden signed a law on Wednesday that could ban the use of TikTok in the United States although his campaign has taken advantage of the platform and tried to work with accounts with large numbers of followers. The president, who has struggled to maintain support among young voters, now faces criticism from some of the most ardent users of the app, which researchers say is the primary source of news for a third of Americans. under 30 years old.
“There is a fundamental hypocrisy in the Biden administration’s support for banning TikTok while at the same time using TikTok for its campaign,” said Kahlil Greene, who has more than 650,000 followers and is known on TikTok as a “Gen Z Historian.” .
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2024-04-26 19:06:27
