A “Saturday Night Live”Skit mocked the Biden administration’s outreach to TikTok influencers. But it was no joke — the White House really did have a Zoom briefing for influencers on the situation in Ukraine.
Inside Edition spoke with four TikTok starlets who were there. They share mostly serious news with almost 12 million users.
“The White House — they have communicated to us that they have seen us, that they respect the work we’re doing, but they want to make sure we’re able to get out accurate information to people when we’re talking about the Ukraine crisis,” Kahlil Greene said.
Aaron Parnas states that getting the message out to younger TikTok users is key. “critical.”
“Most of the younger generation — they don’t watch regular news outlets like CNN and MSNBC. Oftentimes, when you wake up in the morning, the younger generation looks on their phone and goes on TikTok,” Parnas said.