Can Joe Biden Win Over TikTok?
Inside the Hive
Vanity Fair
4.2 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 15 February 2024
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Host Brian Stelter explores how Joe Biden’s campaign is embracing TikTok with Makena Kelly, a senior writer at Wired, and Harry Sisson, an NYU junior and TikTok political commentator. They discuss how politicians can effectively harness the platform and how the 81-year-old president's team is hoping Dark Brandon can help sway Gen Z voters.
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| 0:32.3 | read watch and hear. Vanity Fair. So, Harry, you are a political commentator on Tic-Toc, a title that didn't exist five years ago. |
| 0:57.2 | So what do you do? |
| 0:58.8 | Yeah, yeah, very, very new. |
| 1:00.9 | Kind of the new thing, I guess on social media basically just make videos |
| 1:04.5 | about political news legal news especially with Trump's cases every day and |
| 1:09.1 | hopefully informing young voters and people of all ages for that matter. |
| 1:13.4 | You have 800,000 followers and counting? |
| 1:16.1 | 800,000 followers and counting, that's right. |
| 1:19.2 | That is Harry Sisson, a junior at NYU. |
| 1:22.3 | We're also joined by McKenna Kelly, a senior writer at Wired. |
| 1:26.2 | And I'm Brian Stelter. Welcome to Inside the Hive from Vanity Fair. |
| 1:31.3 | Today we're going inside the Tik-Toc election and President Biden's |
| 1:35.5 | bid to meet voters where they are on new communication platforms. The Biden |
| 1:41.5 | campaign recently officially joined a Tik-Toc, even though the Biden administration's |
| 1:46.1 | FBI and the FCC have warned about the app, warning that the app could steal users' data and |
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