Ankit Desai, who worked for Biden in 2005 when the future president was a US senator from Delaware, registered as a lobbyist for TikTok on Thursday while CEO Shou Zi Chew's testimony in front of HouseCommerce was underway.
Ankit Desai, who worked for Biden in 2005 when the future president was a U.S. senator from Delaware, registered as a lobbyist for TikTok on Thursday while Shou Zi Chew’s contentious testimony in front of the House Energy and Commerce Committee was underway. The Chinese Communist Party-linked company is facing a potential ban by Biden.
The disclosure by Desai said he would be lobbying for TikTok on issues related to “internet technology” and “regulation of content platforms.”Jamal Brown, who served as the Biden Defense Department’s deputy press secretary from February 2021 to February 2022, joined TikTok in October 2022 to run its policy communications in the Americas, reportedly with a main focus on the U.S.
SKDK, a political consulting agency whose founder is a top Biden adviser and whose former employees fill out key roles across the Biden administration, was also reportedly hired by TikTok in the past few months, according to Politico. SKDK founding partner Anita Dunn was named a Biden senior adviser in May 2022, with the White House announcing she would “assist in advancing the President’s policy and communications objectives.
The Chinese company has put together a large lobbying team made up of one-time lawmakers and former congressional staffers from both parties to try to shield the company. TikTok also hired Jeff Denham, a former California Republican congressman from 2013 to 2019, as a lobbyist in February through Dentons US LLP.TikTok and its Chinese parent company ByteDance combined to spend more than $1 million on lobbying during the fourth quarter of 2022.
ByteDance spent $1.11 million on lobbying from October to December, and TikTok itself reported spending another $110,000 in the fourth quarter of 2022 through the Crossroads Strategies advocacy firm. The two companies spent a combined $550,000 on lobbying in 2019, $3.92 million in 2020, $6.54 million in 2021, and $5.91 million in 2022.
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