Amid the military parade for Donald Trump’s birthday on Saturday night, an activist published a video on the target platform, Threads, announcing that he had received more than one million visits in a Tiktok video that announced how to book tickets for the Trump parade event.
The activist had no intention of attending Trump’s rally, nor many of the people who saw their video. However, it was one of the many social networks users who in recent days began to disseminate instructions on how to reserve entries for the rally, even if there was no intention of attending.
On Saturday night, in the middle of the rain and the threat of thunderstorms, the crowd that attended the Trump parade seemed to be modest. (It is notoriously difficult to accurately calculate the size of the crowd, especially in the middle of an event). However, in social networks, users were euphoric, attributing merit – as they already made in a similar incident in 2020 – to influence rally assistance. “We prepare for a huge participation: hundreds of thousands of attendees,” said Matt McCool, a special agent in charge of the United States Secret Service Office in Washington, DC, in an informative security session on Monday.
“I have 10 tickets here in Australia. Oh! How bad! I will not be there!” One wrote. Another said: “Europeans could not use our tickets here. Solidarity from Scotland!”
In 2020, in full boom of his first (and failed) re -election campaign, Trump began a mitines tour with a great planned event for the Juneteenth in Tulsa. Social network users, including, in particular, K-POP fans, who have a large number of followers organized online, implored their followers to participate, reserving tickets for the rally with the intention of leaving the open stadium and the abandoned president. When the president, in fact, spoke to a half -empty stadium on his return rally, adolescents online were attributed to the merit of poor assistance (although sudden increases in Covid in the prevaCunal era could have contributed as much or more to explain it).
Now, social networks users are attributed again to the merit of the silenced response to the very public birthday party and Trump military parade.
This incident occurs at a particularly complicated moment for social media companies, and for Tiktok especially, which today is online because President Trump decided not to apply a binding law that would prohibit it in the United States unless its parent company, Bytedance, the bandage to a non -Chinese company.
