Apr 1

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Why Did Facebook Pay a GOP Firm to Trash its Competition, TikTok?

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Facebook’s parent company Meta enlisted the help of a top Republican consulting firm to orchestrate an anti-TikTok campaign.

According to The Washington Post, the company has been using an aggressive strategy to take down its biggest competitor by promoting posts that are…

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