{"id":1741158,"date":"2022-11-16T11:31:43","date_gmt":"2022-11-16T16:31:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1741158"},"modified":"2022-11-16T12:04:01","modified_gmt":"2022-11-16T17:04:01","slug":"biden-campaign-director-now-drafts-tiktoks-misinfo-policies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-campaign-director-now-drafts-tiktoks-misinfo-policies\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden Campaign Director Now Drafts TikTok\u2019s Misinfo Policies"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" 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by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The former Digital Organizing Platforms Director for Joe Biden\u2019s 2020 presidential campaign is now a Global Program Manager for TikTok responsible for leading the app\u2019s efforts to censor \u201cmisinformation\u201d and address election-related content.<\/p>\n<p>The former Biden campaign aide\u2019s unearthed ties to the controversial, Chinese Communist Party-controlled app comes amidst renewed calls to ban it in the U.S.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-heading-xlarge inline t-24 v-align-middle break-words\">Vishal Disawar, who is the Global Program Manager of Integrity Products at TikTok, worked for the Biden campaign from August to November 2020.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLed the nation-wide product strategy and technical program management for voter outreach and improving volunteer + voter experiences on campaign tech platforms across 5 product teams and 7 program teams,\u201d explains his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/vdisawar\/\">LinkedIn<\/a> profile.<\/p>\n<p>Disawar lists additional ways he helped Biden\u2019s campaign efforts including:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Prioritized + scoped improvements and developed strategic implementation guidance for volunteer-facing products involved in voter outreach to enable the campaign to make 332M calls on ThruTalk, send 334M texts on ThruText, and have 200K volunteer-to-friend conversations via the Vote Joe mobile app.<\/li>\n<li>Drove process improvements to handle product feedback and roll-outs across 17 battleground state program teams.<\/li>\n<li>Led the joebiden.com website growth strategy for voter engagement to drive 19K voter registration &#038; vote by mail registration conversions, and 30K polling location lookups in battleground states.<\/li>\n<li>Expanded voter outreach by an additional 247K conversations over a $2M spend in the final 3 weeks by managing a chatbot-based advertising program.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Disawar appeared to leverage his experience and connections working on the Biden campaign to join TikTok in March 2022.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<span aria-hidden=\"true\">Leading efforts to identify product improvements to make to prevent &#038; cure integrity issues related to misinformation, elections, and impersonation for all content types including user generated content and state affiliated media,<\/span>\u201d explains a summary of his role on his LinkedIn profile.<\/p>\n<p>The former Harris aide\u2019s TikTok connections follow evidence revealing that TikTok\u2019s parent company ByteDance <a href=\"https:\/\/thenationalpulse.com\/2021\/05\/04\/tiktok-taps-military-techie-as-ceo\/\">employs<\/a> former Chinese Communist Party officials, including individuals with military ties, to leadership roles and grants party members preferential treatment in its hiring process.<\/p>\n<p>The app\u2019s founder and former CEO of its parent company has also pledged to use the company to \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/thenationalpulse.com\/2020\/08\/09\/tiktok-socialist-values-founders\/\">promote<\/a> socialist core values\u201d and devotion to the Chinese Communist Party in a 2018 statement.<\/p>\n<p>TikTok\u2019s\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxbusiness.com\/politics\/gop-senators-biden-admin-trump-presidential-order-tiktok\">threat<\/a> to national security and data privacy prompted the Trump administration to attempt to ban the platform from operating in the U.S., which was quashed by the Biden White House.<\/p>\n<p>Beyond demonstrating close ties between the app and Democratic lawmakers, which decreases the likelihood of a TikTok ban in the U.S., it also calls into question the potential partisanship fueling the social media platform\u2019s misinformation policies.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_14848\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-14848\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-14848\" 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