Trump campaign spent up to $80,000 on Facebook anti-TikTok ads - Business Insider

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Trump ads on Facebook claiming 'TikTok is spying on you' reached up to 5 million Americans and targeted younger voters

In the five days between July 17 and July 21, accounts tied to Donald Trump's campaign posted 450 separate adverts on Facebook and Instagram lambasting TikTok for spying on users and siphoning data to China.

The most-viewed ad posted by the Trump campaign is a 30-second video that claims "TikTok is spying on you." It reached at least 400,000 Americans.Visit Business Insider's homepage for more storiesDonald Trump really hates TikTok. If you didn't get the hint from his multiple threats to ban the video sharing app, then you only need look at your Facebook or Instagram feed.

Analysis of transparency data published by Facebook shows that the Trump campaign spent tens of thousands, perhaps as much as $80,000 on the ads. They were seen by up to 5.5 million Americans and were mostly targeted at Trump-voting states, including Texas and Florida. that replaces the TikTok logo with an Asian man looking through binoculars. "TikTok is spying on you," the man says.

But Andreas Fulda, a China expert at the University of Nottingham, says the Trump campaign should be "commended for highlighting the potential risks emanating from Chinese apps like TikTok."

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He’s just mad he thinks people on the Tik Tok platform was the reason his rally was a dud... he’s the reason....

i feel very strongly against tiktok. we need to block tiktok in america. why are we allowing china's social/content network in america when they wont allow any of ours in china? why are we allowing them to get network effects in our country? it makes no sense

Trump is working hard to prevent people from watching Sarah Cooper mock him.

tiktok_us why dont you have an official statement on this? Going into coffin without an explanation?

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