>"We're disappointed that so many states are jumping on the political bandwagon to enact policies that will do nothing to advance cybersecurity in their states and are based on unfounded falsehoods about TikTok," spokesperson Jamal Brown wrote. "We're especially sorry to see the unintended consequences of these rushed policies beginning to impact universities' ability to share information, recruit students, and build communities around athletic teams, student groups, campus publications, and more."
Jamal Brown has quite the resume. Revolving door and all of that.
He's a lobbyist by any other definition of the word. "Spokesman" is kind of a cop-out to deliberately undersell why he's working with TikTok/Bytedance.
Everyone has a price, and I assume Bytedance knows how valuable having a former DoD spokesman as their PR guy is - especially in this new environment of geopolitical realism. Whatever that price was, I think it's safe to assume it was met.
A job's a job. A DOD spokesperson isn't receiving any confidential information. Their job is political, just as it would be at Facebook, if they chose to work there.
Jamal Brown has quite the resume. Revolving door and all of that.
https://twitter.com/JTOBrown