The Washington Post alleges a consultancy was paid by Meta to promote stories of dangerous TikTok trends.
The chief executive of a political consulting firm has responded to a report alleging Meta paid his company to "undermine" TikTok.allegedly suggested Targeted Victory's campaign aimed to show TikTok "as a danger to American children".
In response to the article, Mr Moffat tweeted that: "The story infers that the words of the letters to the editor were not the authors' own, nor did they know of Meta's involvement. That is false. They will confirm that." This included a purported Devious Licks challenge, which encouraged damage to school property, and reports of a rumoured Slap a Teacher challenge, which an investigation by news site Insider suggested did not in fact exist.the Post said, suggested that stories about both challenges began to spread on Facebook.
"Even the fact that Meta might have helped to inspire such copycats ought to have been enough to kill this project when it was still being white-boarded," he wrote.Media strategiesas part of a group of high-profile conservative figures following allegations - which the firm denied - that it tampered with its Trending Topics feature, to promote "progressive" views.
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