6/22/2020

2020 ELECTION/CAMPAIGN/RALLY: “Users on the social media app TikTok are claiming some credit for the disappointing turnout at the president’s rally in Tulsa, Oklahoma, over the weekend, after a weeks-long campaign to artificially inflate the number of people registered to attend. The prank may have helped lead the Trump campaign to boast about more than a million people seeking tickets for the rally — while only about 6,200 ended up filling seats.

In the weeks leading up to the rally, TikTok users started spreading the idea of registering for free tickets with no intention of going — in hopes that they would take seats away from Trump supporters, and leave the president speaking to a hollowed-out stadium.”

-Jason Silverstein, “How TikTok users trolled the Trump campaign into expecting a Tulsa rally crowd that never came,” cbsnews.com, June 22, 2020