Renowned TikTok influencer Greene and several others says White House is using TikTok stars as pawns to achieve their goals in Ukraine.
Khalil Greene, a TikTok celebrity and self-described "Gen Z Historian," has chastised his peers for telling their viewers "verbatim" what the Biden administration intended them to say about the Ukraine conflict. Greene explained why conservatives believe the young influencers were "used as pawns by the White House."
Greene was one of 30 social media influencers called to a White House video conference last month, during which Press Secretary Jen Psaki spelled out the US' position on Ukraine and Russia in order for the message to be delivered to their millions of followers. Rob Flaherty, the White House's director of digital strategy, said the virtual briefing was "critically important" to ensure that the influencers received "the latest information from an authoritative source."
Greene, on the other hand, told Newsweek that he was unimpre...
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