Social media platform wrote to parties after reports of marketing agency offering users $300 to make videos criticising Scott MorrisonGet our free news app; get our morning email briefingFollow our Australia news live blog for the latest updatesTikTok wrote to
Australian political parties in November last year warning them against attempting to pay influencers or engage in any other sort of advertising on its platform, Guardian Australia can reveal.
Just months out from the next federal
election, the letters were sent after Crikey reported a US-based marketing agency had emailed a campaign brief to a TikTok user offering $300 for the user to make and post a video on the theme of “Scott Morrison is too slow and always late”.
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