April 10, 2022- 8:40 a.m.
Influencer says White House used TikTok stars as ‘pawns’
TikTok celebrity and self-described “Gen Z Historian” Khalil Greene has criticized his fellow influencers for telling their fans “verbatim” what the Biden administration wanted them to say on the Ukraine conflict.
Greene said that he understands why conservatives said that the young influencers were “used as pawns by the White House.”
Greene was one of 30 social media creators invited to a video conference by the White House last month, during which Press Secretary Jen Psaki laid out the US’ policy on Ukraine and Russia, so that the message could then be spread to their millions of followers.
