Top Biden adviser Anita Dunn slammed for encouraging Dem operatives to use TikTok to promote SOTU speech

White House senior adviser Anita Dunn was blasted online after it was revealed she encouraged outside Democratic operatives to use TikTok to promote President Biden’s State of the Union speech as her old firm was hired by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP)-linked company to avoid a federal ban.

According to a Thursday report from Politico, Dunn urged Democratic operatives ahead of Biden’s February speech to hop on TikTok and promote the event during a "Women’s Community Engagement Update" call hosted by the White House Office of Public Engagement.

Dunn reportedly told people on the call that they wanted to tout the administration’s accomplishments online and that, while the White House couldn’t use TikTok, other Biden surrogates on the CCP-linked social media platform should share parts of Biden’s speech.

Under White House ethics policy, Dunn is not permitted from engaging in matters involving the firm she founded.

TikTok has hired SKDK to lobby against a looming federal ban of the CCP-linked app.

"Anita said the same thing to an all-but-public, 5,000-person group what many of her colleagues have transparently said on the record to a wide range of outlets for years: that we work with outside supporters to spread our message on the major social media platforms, including TikTok," Bates said in a statement to Fox News Digital.... (Read more)

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