PDS 4.19 The Libs of Tiktok & Taylor Lorenz Scandal Got Nasty Fast...
The Philip DeFranco Show
philip defranco
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ποΈ 19 April 2022
β±οΈ 17 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | I don't know if you've seen but the internet has exploded over the last 24 hours. |
| 0:03.6 | And in the middle of the blast you have an account called Libs of Tik-Tock and |
| 0:06.4 | Washington Post reporter Taylor Lorenz. |
| 0:08.4 | So this story is massive, it's messy, it's involved, I'm not going to be able to touch on |
| 0:11.8 | every single thing, but we're |
| 0:13.2 | going to hit the highlights, the arguments, and the details. |
| 0:15.4 | So Libs of Tik-Toc is now primarily a conservative Twitter account with around 700,000 followers, |
| 0:19.2 | as I'm sharing with the referred to as liberal videos from all around the web and often they target the LGBTQ community. |
| 0:23.8 | The accounts specifically taking aim at teachers who it accuses of indoctrinating and grooming |
| 0:26.8 | children with LGBTQ plus rights. |
| 0:28.7 | With this, people on the left have criticized the accounts saying it's blatantly homophobic and |
| 0:32.1 | bigoted |
| 0:32.6 | accusing it of cherry-picking clips and framing them in ways to |
| 0:34.8 | boost engagement through rage clicks and promote far-right |
| 0:37.0 | conspiracy theories but not really debatable is how big of an impact this |
| 0:40.0 | account has been having since the account first began using the Libs of |
| 0:42.4 | Tik-Toc handle in April of 2021 |
| 0:44.0 | this after having used other screen names since being started in November of 2020 |
| 0:47.6 | it has steadily gained a ton of traction among conservatives especially after |
| 0:50.4 | Joe Rogin promoted the account on his show just four months after it got started with him mentioning it multiple times on his show throughout last year and even saying in September |
| 0:56.8 | Lives of Tik-Tock on Twitter is one of the greatest fucking accounts of all time. |
| 1:00.4 | And as the account began to gain more prominence at the end of last year, it became even more |
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