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Quite incredible he can go from DoD spokesperson to working at TikTok. I guess there's no law against it, but incredible personal choice.
by throwaway29812 4y ago
Quite incredible he can go from DoD spokesperson to working at TikTok. I guess there's no law against it, but incredible personal choice.
- remarkEon 4y agoEveryone has a price, and I assume Bytedance knows how valuable having a former DoD spokesman as their PR guy is - especially in this new environment of geopolitical realism. Whatever that price was, I think it's safe to assume it was met.
- rchaud 4y agoA job's a job. A DOD spokesperson isn't receiving any confidential information. Their job is political, just as it would be at Facebook, if they chose to work there.
- rockinghigh 4y agoIn the same vein, Michael Flynn went from being a US Army lieutenant general to a foreign agent lobbying for governments like Turkey.
- throwaway29812 4y agoI think there was a law against that.