Progressive TikTok creators turn against Biden
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🗓️ 10 July 2024
⏱️ 13 minutes
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About a third of adults under 30 regularly get their news on TikTok, according to the Pew Research Center. And in this election season, the messages from young, left-leaning creators on the short-form video app are pretty different from last time around. In 2020, a coalition of influencers united to back presidential candidate Joe Biden’s campaign, and historically high youth turnout helped propel him to a win. But after almost four years of the Biden presidency, the TikTok tide has turned, according to Taylor Lorenz, online culture columnist at The Washington Post, who recently wrote about this shift.
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| 0:34.3 | Tic-Tock turns against the Biden campaign. |
| 0:38.8 | From American public media, this is marketplace tech. I'm Megan McCarty Carino. About a third of adults under 30 regularly get their news on |
| 0:57.2 | Tik-Toc according to the Pew Research Center and the messages on the short-form |
| 1:01.8 | video app this election season from young left-leaning creators |
| 1:06.5 | are pretty different than last time around. |
| 1:09.4 | In 2020, a coalition of influencers united to throw their backing behind Joe Biden's campaign |
| 1:16.4 | and historically high youth turnout helped propel him to a win. |
| 1:20.5 | But after three years of the Biden presidency, the Tik-Tide has turned, according to Taylor |
| 1:26.8 | Lorenz. She's an online culture columnist at the Washington Post who recently wrote |
| 1:31.8 | about this shift. |
| 1:33.0 | Biden's campaign in 2020 partnered with a lot of content creators |
| 1:37.0 | leading up to the election in terms of distributing information to them, |
| 1:41.0 | inviting them to events, things like that. |
| 1:43.2 | Once Biden took office, they tightened that relationship |
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