{"id":1929378,"date":"2023-05-12T01:57:36","date_gmt":"2023-05-12T05:57:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/prominent-dem-tiktok-lobbyist-dropped-from-client-over-work-for-chinese-app\/"},"modified":"2023-05-12T02:00:12","modified_gmt":"2023-05-12T06:00:12","slug":"prominent-dem-tiktok-lobbyist-dropped-from-client-over-work-for-chinese-app","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/prominent-dem-tiktok-lobbyist-dropped-from-client-over-work-for-chinese-app\/","title":{"rendered":"Top Dem TikTok lobbyist loses client due to work with Chinese app."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fprominent-dem-tiktok-lobbyist-dropped-from-client-over-work-for-chinese-app%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1929378&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>Former Congressman Joe Crowley Dropped as Music Industry Association Chairman Over TikTok Lobbying<\/h2>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/media.gettyimages.com\/photos\/thenrepresentative-joseph-crowley-ny-speaks-during-a-news-conference-picture-id1007587586?s=2048x2048\" alt=\"Joseph Crowley\"><\/p>\n<h3>MusicFirst Cuts Ties with Crowley<\/h3>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/prominent-dem-tiktok-lobbyist-dropped-from-client-over-work-for-chinese-app\/\" title=\"Top Dem TikTok lobbyist loses client due to work with Chinese app.\">music industry association<\/a>, MusicFirst, has cut ties with former Democratic congressman Joe Crowley as its chairman due to his lobbying work for Chinese social media app TikTok. MusicFirst is a trade group that works to &#8220;ensure music creators get fair pay for their work.&#8221; According to Politico, the group had concerns that Crowley&#8217;s TikTok lobbying was a conflict of interest.<\/p>\n<h3>Crowley&#8217;s TikTok Lobbying<\/h3>\n<p>Crowley and his firm, Dentons, registered earlier this year as lobbyists for TikTok, joining a growing list of influential Democrats flacking for the China-controlled social media platform. Lawmakers are seeking to ban TikTok due to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/blackburn-introduces-amendments-to-counter-china-and-iran\/\" title=\"Blackburn Introduces Amendments to Counter China and Iran\">national security concerns<\/a> over the app&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/report-chinas-tiktok-unable-to-explain-why-they-may-store-your-faceprints-and-voiceprints-and-other-biometric-data\/\" title=\"Report: China\u2019s TikTok \u2018Unable To Explain\u2019 Why They May Store Your \u2018Faceprints And Voiceprints\u2019 And Other \u2018Biometric Data\u2019\">data collection practices<\/a> and harmful content.<\/p>\n<h3>Impact on Crowley&#8217;s Ties to the White House<\/h3>\n<p>While Crowley&#8217;s TikTok work was a dealbreaker for MusicFirst, it&#8217;s unclear if the lobbying will impact his close ties to the White House. Crowley had at least four White House visits last year, including with presidential special assistant John McCarthy in August and White House adviser Mariana Adame in September, according to the Washington Free Beacon.<\/p>\n<h3>Parting Statement from MusicFirst<\/h3>\n<p>In a statement to Politico, MusicFirst praised Crowley for &#8220;his lifetime of leadership and fierce advocacy on behalf of artists.&#8221; Crowley told the news outlet that it &#8220;wasn&#8217;t a bad breakup.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Crowley, the former chairman of the House Democratic Caucus, lost his seat in Congress to Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (N.Y.) in a 2018 Democratic primary.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Then-representative Joseph Crowley (D., N.Y.) \/ Getty Images A music industry association has dropped former Democratic congressman Joe Crowley as its chairman over his lobbying work for Chinese social media app TikTok. MusicFirst, a trade group that works to &#8220;ensure music creators get fair pay for their work,&#8221; reportedly cut ties with Crowley over concerns<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":120,"featured_media":1929379,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[544],"tags":[9244,4117,8811,6244,5054,4318,6248],"class_list":["post-1929378","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-free-beacon","tag-app","tag-chinese","tag-client","tag-dem","tag-lobbyist","tag-loses","tag-tiktok"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1929378","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/120"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1929378"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1929378\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1929379"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1929378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1929378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1929378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}