Skip the memes, Joe. Here’s how a presidential TikTok should look.


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Earlier this month, on Super Bowl Sunday, President Joe Biden debuted his TikTok account, @bidenhq. It was a necessary move from a campaign standpoint that nonetheless prompted confusion among those of us who recall how close his administration veered toward banning the popular social media platform in the U.S. In fact, it was just last March that Biden presented TikTok’s Chinese parent company ByteDance with an ultimatum: divest ownership or face a nationwide ban. Less than a year later, ByteDance still owns TikTok—and the ban threat has virtually dissipated. Now we have official presidential videos captioned “lol hey guys” and...