There’s been a ton of world reaction to the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Indeed, we’ve seen companies who generally only care about the bottom line pulling out and cutting ties with Russia, costing the companies a lot of money. We’ve seen Facebook relax their rules about wishing death on people — now it’s okay to wish death on Russians because that’s apparently understandable to Facebook. We’ve seen even neutral Switzerland taking a position to impose sanctions on Russia. I even got an email from a company that I order food from pushing “Ukrainian recipes” in support.
Biden’s team is now able to find the true solution to Ukraine. They’re taking a further move — not unlike what they did to push the COVID narrative — reaching out to TikTok influencers, and giving them the “answers” to any questions that they might have on Ukraine to pass along to their followers.
What the heck just happened? pic.twitter.com/aQj8Khau1Q
— Greg Price (@greg_price11) March 11, 2022
A group was even brought in to promote their message to influential people.
This week, the administration began working with Gen Z For Change, a nonprofit advocacy group, to help identify top content creators on the platform to orchestrate a briefing aimed at answering questions about the conflict and the United States’ role in it. […]
“We recognize this is a critically important avenue in the way the American public is finding out about the latest,” said the White House director of digital strategy, Rob Flaherty, “so we wanted to make sure you had the latest information from an authoritative source.”
Jules Terpak, a Gen Z content creator who makes TikTok essays about digital culture, said the White House’s decision to engage creators such as she was essential in helping to stop the spread of misinformation. “Those who have an audience can ideally set the tone for how others decide to assess and amplify what they see online,” she said.
Many of the influencers who participated in the call said that they feel more equipped to communicate the truth about the crisis and debunk misinformation.
Oh, misinformation? Here’s another example. So, here’s a thought. Why don’t you trust Americans to make their own judgment about the information that is out there? What makes you feel like you must push a narrative to make people believe? Why are tax dollars being used to finance this? Why do you spend money on this when it is possible to lift restrictions on oil producers and lower the price for millions of Americans?
Speaking of misinformation, let’s talk about one of the things the “authoritative source” White House said during the Tik Tok meeting.Jen Psaki, White House Press Secretary was pushing information to the meeting. This is why you can see a lot more bull being slung. She said that the Russians “hacked the election” in 2016, an utter lie.
Jen Psaki at the Tik-Tok briefing about Ukraine
“I keep my cool in briefings even though there are emotional issues. I was getting really choked up one day. I know that most people do.”
— Charlie Spiering (@charliespiering) March 11, 2022
So much for their “authoritative source.” That wasn’t all. On the audio of the Zoom call, Jen Psaki also lied about what caused inflation, saying that it was all due to the pandemic and the supply chain, not mentioning any of the Biden Administration’s spending that sent it skyrocketing. She claimed Putin was responsible for the gas price hike, but that they were doing things to bring it down — when they’re not doing much of anything to address it, and Biden himself said there wasn’t much they could do.
They are disreputable and dangerous. Who wants to bet, in the process of this, they’re also going to push lies about inflation and gas hikes all being due to Putin?
The White House called this TikTok star to be briefed about Ukraine during a zoom call.
She has hundreds of videos on her YouTube channel. This is where I go first to find Biden-approved news about the war.🤡
They are now in control. pic.twitter.com/yzxiPOsZ22
— Libs of Tik Tok (@libsoftiktok) March 11, 2022
But it sounds like even the GenZ TikTok folks didn’t buy into all of this.
“People in my generation get all our information from TikTok,” Khalil Greene, who attended the briefing, told The Washington Post. “It’s the first place we’re searching up new topics and learning about things.”
Jules Terpak, the creator of TikTok essays on culture, Jules Suzdaltsev, which operates TikTok’s Good Morning, Bad News account, and Ellie Zeiler, an uber-star TikTok user with more than 10 million followers, were also present. Greene and others posted recaps.
Some reviews weren’t positive. “There wasn’t a lot of acknowledgement of what America should stop doing in terms of their connections to occupations, invasions, and general bad-faith actions across the world,” Greene said. Similarly, Suzdaltsev told The Washington Post that “the energy of the call felt like a press briefing for kindergartners.”
Do you remember this shameful attempt to force their COVID positions? This is what Vladimir Putin must think about it.
Psaki uses, ‘in skirt & long nails’, 抖音 Benny Drama to make G-Z, take the shots ! pic.twitter.com/bPFm3nQbQc
— @KassMedefer (@KMedefer) August 10, 2021
They are not focusing on all of the important things they should be doing. And they wonder why Biden’s numbers are in the toilet.
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