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Facebook Tried To Blame Its Own Misinformation On TikTok (It Backfired) - How Money Works #Shorts

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Facebook has been exposed for hiring a consulting firm to run a political smear campaign against its emerging rival Tik-Tok.

Facebooks parent company Meta has lost over $300 billion dollars in value since the beginning of the year and the announced their first ever month with a declining userbase in February.

Facebook is getting desperate to say the least.

They hired the firm which ran a series of editorials that were critical of Tik-Tok.

In a beautiful twist of irony, the smear campaign involved the public condemnation of the Viral Tik-Tok trend “Smack a teacher Day”.

The only problem was that this trend never existed, it was simply fake information that was originated and propagated… on Facebook…

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