USA Meets With TikTok Phenomenon About Ukraine

Russia’s launching of a military operation on the territory of Ukraine on February 24 caused the long-standing tension to peak and a history that will go down in history. fight had it started. After that, this war became the agenda of the whole world.

The fact that we live in a world that is increasingly shifting to digital environments has also caused social media platforms to become important places for the crisis as the war continued on the territory of Ukraine. The world’s most popular social media application TikTok and -as long as there is no disinformation-one of them; because many people use this medium to get information about the war. Now, the news has shown that the US government has taken a step in this regard.

The White House met with TikTok phenomena

According to The Washington Post White Housewhich has been followed by millions of people recently 30 TikTok briefed the phenomenon on Ukraine via a Zoom meeting. The report stated that the meeting was led by White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki and National Security Council adviser Matt Miller. It was also among the statements that the duo talked to the content producers about the strategic goals of the USA in the region and answered questions.

Many TikTok influencers provided their followers with a briefing and information on the situation in Ukraine, underlining that the meeting is important to avoid misinformation. The 21-year-old popular content producer Kahlil Greene also stated that such a move by the Biden administration is correct and predictable; because his generation prefers TikTok to learn about war recorded.

However, there were also phenomena who were not very happy with the meeting. Jules Suzdaltsev, Ukrainian-born journalist and TikTok content producer; He stated that the authorities avoided difficult questions and that the briefing was generally in a ‘soft’ tone. Suzdaltsev therefore said that the meetinga statement to kindergarten‘ It feels like, he added.

It would not be wrong to say that TikTok being the most popular social media platform in the world is critical to the war. Because millions of people are talking about the crisis, like videos shared by people living in Ukraine from bunkers. lots of real-time content can reach. The fact that young people prefer to get information from such channels rather than traditional media organizations shows that this move of the Biden administration is a very normal move to reach people.