Did teens, TikTok users and fans of Korean pop music troll the president of the United States? —@SteveSchmidtSESReached by telephone Sunday, Schmidt called the rally an "unmitigated disaster" — days after Trump campaign chairman Brad Parscale tweeted that more than a million people requested tickets for the rally through Trump's campaign website. "Reporters who wrote gleefully about TikTok and K-pop fans — without contacting the campaign for comment — behaved unprofessionally and were willing dupes to the charade." Saturday's political rally at the BOK Center in Tulsa, Okla., was U.S. President Donald Trump's first since the start of the coronavirus pandemic. "No matter who signs up or if they go to a rally, Trump gets data to train retargeting on Facebook.

Source: CBC News June 22, 2020 14:03 UTC