Meta Platforms (NASDAQ:FB) has reportedly paid a Republican consulting group to operate a campaign against TikTok that depicted the social media video platform as being a threat to young people.
What Happened: The parent company of Facebook and Instagram hired Targeted Victory, a consultancy that promoted itself as being at the “intersection of politics and business,” to target the U.S. mainstream media with a series of op-ed columns and letters to the editor highlighting what it claimed to be harmful trends supposedly started on TikTok that could result in physical injury and mental health problems among young viewers, according to a Washington Post report.
