>The campaign includes placing op-eds and letters to the editor in major regional news outlets, promoting dubious stories about alleged TikTok trends that actua

>The campaign includes placing op-eds and letters to the editor in major regional news outlets, promoting dubious stories about alleged TikTok trends that actually originated on Facebook, and pushing to draw political reporters and local politicians into helping take down its biggest competitor. These bare-knuckle tactics... Letters to the editor and soliciting reporters is considered "bare-knuckle"!?! >In October, Targeted Victory worked to spread rumors of the “Slap a Teacher TikTok challenge” in local news, touting a local news report on the alleged challenge in Hawaii. In reality, no such challenge existed on TikTok. Again, the rumor started on Facebook, according to a series of Facebook posts first documented by Insider. I guess this was not communicated to the entire WaPo newsroom... https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2021/10/06/tiktok-slap-teacher-challenge/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2021/10/06/tiktok-slap... https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2021/10/08/tiktok-teacher-slap-louisiana/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2021/10/08/tiktok-t...