"Devious Licks" and other Tik Tok viral teencrime stories were faked by a Republican PR firm working for Facebook

Who had the above headline on their 2020s bullshit bingo card? Taylor Lorenz and Drew Harwell report that Facebook hired a bunch of GOP operatives to smear competitor Tik Tok as a malign foreign influence on children. Most of those viral local stories about teens smashing up bathrooms, slapping teachers and so on? — Read the rest