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Tech Reform Battle Heats Up in U.S. Capitol
['Justin Hendrix']
The Tech Policy Press Podcast
The first segment is with Drew Harwell, a technology reporter at The Washington Post who shared the byline on a story last week on a campaign by Meta, the company that operates Facebook and Instagram, to besmirch its rival, TikTok, in part as a way to bolster Meta’s arguments against antitrust reforms. They coordinated this very anti-TikTok press campaign that involved not just gathering every piece of bad press about TikTok from lots of different media markets across the country and involved, you know, using kind of like campaign helper/operative PR types in lots of states across the US, but also involved helping draft letters to the editor that were supposedly from concerned parents saying ‘TikTok is scary’ and sent those out to local newspapers, TV outlets.