TikTok repeatedly urged AEC to join app during voice campaign, FoI reveals

Exclusive: Calls to electoral watchdog came despite Australia banning use of platform on government devices

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TikTok wrote to Australia’s election regulator at least twice in 2023 “to encourage” the commission to create an account on the app, according to documents obtained by Guardian Australia under freedom of information laws.

TikTok Australia’s director of public policy, Ella Woods-Joyce, wrote to Australian Electoral Commission in September about starting an “official presence” on the app during the Indigenous voice to parliament referendum, and again in October.

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