President Biden’s presidential campaign joined the Chinese-owned social media app TikTok, walking back a 2023 promise of opposition to the app.
The Biden administration previously called TikTok a national security threat and banned federal employees from using it on government-owned devices.
Nonetheless, Biden made his first TikTok post on Super Bowl Sunday in a video titled “lol hey guys” under the username @bidenhq. You can see it here.
Campaign officials justified the policy reversal as a political necessity, saying, “The campaign will continue meeting voters where they are.”