Washington Post published this video item, entitled “Karine Jean-Pierre holds White House briefing” – below is their description.
A day after the Senate passed a bill banning federal employees’ use of TikTok on government devices, White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre briefs reporters. Read more: https://wapo.st/3PuLluZ.
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The Washington Post is a major American daily newspaper published in Washington, D.C. It is the most widely circulated newspaper within the Washington metropolitan area. Daily broadsheet editions are printed for the District of Columbia, Maryland, and Virginia. The newspaper is owned by Amazon Inc. CEO, Jeff Bezos. It has won 47 Pulitzer Prizes.
Karine Jean-Pierre is a political advisor who has served as White House Press Secretary since 13 May 2022, at the time of her appointment, Jean-Pierre was the first Black person and the first openly LGBTQ person to be White House press secretary.
TikTok, known in China as Douyin, is a Chinese video-sharing social networking service owned by ByteDance, a Beijing-based Internet technology company founded in 2012 by Zhang Yiming. It is used to create short music, lip-sync, dance, comedy and talent videos of 3 to 15 seconds, and short looping videos of 3 to 60 seconds.
ByteDance first launched Douyin for the Chinese market in September 2016. Later, TikTok was launched in 2017 for iOS and Android in most markets outside of mainland China; however, it only became available worldwide, including the United States, after merging with another Chinese social media service Musical.ly on 2 August 2018.
