Chinese-Owned TikTok Hires Biden’s Former Campaign and Deputy Pentagon Press Secretary to Manage Policy Communication in the Americas

Jamal Brown who formerly worked as Press Secretary for the Pentagon has transitioned to a new job with the Chinese-owned social media app TikTok.

Brown was also a campaign spokesman for President Biden and also worked six years under former President Obama as Press Secretary for the Office of Management. He was also a senior legal assistant at GLAD.

Politico broke the news on Tuesday in a newsletter sharing that Brown is “joining TickTokc to manage policy communications for the Americas, primarily focusing on the United States”.

It seems the Chinese-owned social media app has found itself someone who appears well embedded in the Obama-Biden administrations.

Senator Josh Hawley (R-MO) told DailyMail.com, “This sort of cozy relationship between the Biden Defense Department and TikTok is alarming. TikTok and their Chinese parent company present a serious national security threat but Joe Biden continues to dither as they gobble up Americans’ personal information. “Get serious: make ByteDance sell TikTok.”

This echoes FCC commissioner Brendan Carr, who called on the Biden Administration to ban the app in an interview Tuesday, over concerns that the Chinese-owned company is collecting consumer data insecurely in China.

This seems only to highlight Biden’s ties to the Chinese. We will see if the Biden Administration addresses this well-connected hire TicTok has made.