Facebook hired water soldiers to smear TikTok, which was condemned by the president of the American Teachers' Union

[Comprehensive/Observer Liu Anyang] Recently, according to the Washington Post, Facebook hired Targeted Victory, one of the largest strategic consulting companies of the US Republican Party, to try to raise public opinion against TikTok, a unit of ByteDance, across the US.
TikTok is currently Facebook's largest competitor in short video social networking.
It is reported that Facebook's means of discrediting TikTok include: sending commentaries and letters to the chief editors of mainstream news websites across the United States, promoting articles with questionable authenticity, dumping popular challenges actually originating from Facebook to TikTok, and trying to suppress TikTok through political reporters and local politicians.
On March 31, Randy Wingarton, chairman of the "American Federation of Teachers" (AFT), forwarded a report from the Washington Post, commenting: "Facebook fanned the flames of the 'theft challenge' (students destroying school property) scam, which scared teachers, students and parents across the United States.
They didn't care about the impact on teachers and students, they just wanted to attack a competitor.
This is really shameful." In September 2021, the "theft challenge" will spread viral on social media platforms.
In October 2021, some educators warned that there might be a new challenge "beating the teacher" that encouraged students to slap the teacher.
At that time, the National Education Association (NEA), the largest teachers' union in the United States, urged TikTok, Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, etc.
to take measures to stop the spread and spread of dangerous and harmful challenges and wrong information, saying that such information posed a threat to educators and students.
In an open letter, Chairman Becky Pringle asked the heads of relevant technology companies to make an open commitment to strengthen the supervision of their own platforms and "put public safety above profits".
According to the latest report of the Washington Post, these two challenges actually originated from Facebook.
The "theft challenge" comes from the design fabrication of the "goal victory" of the Facebook employment company.
The survey results of a podcast show confirmed that Facebook, rather than TikTok, was the first platform to spread the rumor of "theft challenge".
"Goal Victory" also spread rumors about "TikTok challenging teachers" through the media.
But in fact, this challenge has never appeared on TikTok.
According to a series of Facebook posts first recorded by American media Insider, this challenge rumor was also born on Facebook.