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HomeMarketDonald Trump joins TikTok, quickly wins over 1,000,000 followers By Reuters

Donald Trump joins TikTok, quickly wins over 1,000,000 followers By Reuters

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By Jasper Ward

(Reuters) – Inside hours of becoming a member of TikTok, Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump had attracted over 1.3 million followers on the quick video social media platform that he tried to ban as president on nationwide safety grounds.

The choice to hitch the platform on Saturday may assist the previous president attain youthful voters in his third bid for the White Home. He’s in a detailed race with Democratic incumbent Joe Biden forward of the Nov. 5 presidential election.

Biden’s election marketing campaign is already on TikTok, though Biden has signed a invoice that may ban the app, which is utilized by 170 million Individuals, if its Chinese language proprietor ByteDance fails to divest it.

Trump posted a launch video on his account, which has the tackle @realdonaldtrump, on Saturday night time. The video confirmed Trump greeting followers at an Final Combating Championship struggle in Newark, New Jersey.

Trump marketing campaign spokesperson Steven Cheung mentioned it’ll depart “no front undefended and this represents the continued outreach to a younger audience consuming pro-Trump and anti-Biden content.”

ByteDance is difficult in courts the legislation that requires it to promote TikTok by subsequent January or face a ban. The White Home says it needs to see Chinese language-based possession ended on nationwide safety grounds.

TikTok has argued it is not going to share U.S. consumer information with the Chinese language authorities and that it has taken substantial measures to guard the privateness of its customers.

Trump’s try and ban TikTok in 2020 when he was president was blocked by the courts. He mentioned in March that the platform was a nationwide safety risk but in addition {that a} ban on it will damage some younger individuals and solely strengthen Meta Platforms (NASDAQ:)’ Fb, which he has strongly criticized.

Trump already has an lively social media presence with greater than 87 million followers on X and over 7 million followers on his personal platform, Fact Social, the place he posts nearly each day.

A U.S. appeals court docket final week set a fast-track schedule to contemplate the authorized challenges to the brand new legislation.

The U.S. Court docket of Appeals for the District of Columbia ordered the case set for oral arguments in September after TikTok, ByteDance and a gaggle of TikTok content material creators joined with the Justice Division earlier this month in asking the court docket for a fast schedule.

(This story has been refiled to modifications the order of ‘depart’ and ‘will’ in paragraph 5)

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