By Evaristo Lara
Feb 13, 2024, 12:29 PM EST
During the first day he launched his account on the TikTok platform, the president of the nation added more than 67,000 followers.
As of Tuesday morning, the 81-year-old Democrat already had nearly 82,000 followers and more than 681,300 likes on the @bidenhq account.
On Sunday afternoon, during the Super Bowl game, Biden debuted on the Chinese platform with a video in which he appears standing dressed in khaki pants and a navy blue sweater, with his hands in his pockets, while answering several related questions. with the most anticipated game of the season in the NFL.
However, one of his followers also asked him a question that made him laugh: “Trump or Biden?”
Biden’s re-election campaign is clear that the candidate to govern the nation for four more years must connect with young voters, since data from various surveys show that a large segment of them hesitates to vote for an 81-year-old president.
However, to avoid a possible information breach, the president’s advisors recommended managing his TikTok account through a separate mobile phone. with respect to the one used in his communications with the members of his cabinet.
Known for disseminating video fragments, TikTok has 150 million users in the United States and has become a widely accepted means of dissemination among citizens around the world.
The controversy that Joe Biden has decided to create an account on said platform to extend the dissemination of his campaign lies in the fact that, in 2022, the president himself signed legislation through which It prohibited the nearly 4 million employees who work there from using TikTok on devices owned by government agencies.
Despite the promising response shown on Biden’s account almost three days after debuting, he is still very far from matching the 37.8 million followers registered on his X profile, formerly known as Twitter.
As expected, figures of the stature of Senator Josh Hawley, Republican of Missouri, began to remind the president that, in his desire to come back in the race to remain in the White House, he is using a platform that he himself He demanded that his subordinates not use it.
“He brags about using a Chinese spy app even though Biden signed a law banning it on all federal devices,” wrote the conservative politician originally from Springdale, Arkansas.
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