TikTok users say they helped sabotage Trump rally with false registrations


  • TikTok
  • Monday, 22 Jun 2020

A Trump supporter shoots a video with his mobile phone from the sparsely filled upper decks of the arena as the president addresses his first re-election campaign rally in several months in the midst of the coronavirus disease (Covid-19) outbreak, at the BOK Center in Tulsa, Oklahoma, US. Social media users on platforms including TikTok have said they completed the free online registration for the rally with no intention of going. The New York Times reported that fans of Korean pop music were encouraging people to do the same. — Reuters

TikTok users took partial credit for inflating attendance expectations at a less-than-full arena at US president Donald Trump’s first political rally in months, held in Tulsa on June 20.

Social media users on platforms including the popular video-sharing app have said they completed the free online registration for the rally with no intention of going. The New York Times reported that fans of Korean pop music were encouraging people to do the same.

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