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TikTok CEO grilled by skeptical U.S. lawmakers on safety, content

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A nearly six-hour grilling of TikTok’s CEO by lawmakers brought the platform’s 150 million U.S. users no closer to an answer as to whether the app will be wiped from their devices.

U.S. lawmakers on Thursday, March 23, 2023 pressed Shou Zi Chew over data security and harmful content, responding skeptically during a tense committee hearing to his assurances that the hugely popular video-sharing app prioritizes user safety and should not be banned due to its Chinese connections.

In a bipartisan effort to rein in the power of a major social media platform, Republican and Democratic lawmakers hurled questions on a host of topics, including TikTok’s content moderation practices, how the company plans to secure American data from Beijing, and its spying on journalists.

Mr. Chew spent most of the hearing attempting to push back assertions that TikTok, or its Chinese parent company, ByteDance, are tools of the Chinese government. But he failed to answer uncomfortable questions about human rights abuses committed by China against the Uyghurs, and seemed taken aback by a TikTok video displayed by one lawmaker that advocated for violence against the House committee holding the hearing.

The rare public appearance by the 40-year-old Singapore native comes at a crucial time for the company. TikTok has ballooned its American user base to 150 million in a few short years, but its increasing dominance is being threated by a potential nationwide ban in the U.S. and growing fears among officials about protecting user data from China’s communist government.

Rising tensions

There’s also symbolism for lawmakers in taking on TikTok, which has been swept up in a wider geopolitical battle between Beijing and Washington over trade and technology, as well as heighted tensions due to recent balloon politics and China’s relationship with Russia.

“Mr. Chew, you are here because the American people need the truth about the threat TikTok poses to our national and personal security,” Committee Chair Cathy McMorris Rodgers, a Republican, said in her opening statement.

Mr. Chew told the House Committee on Energy and Commerce that TikTok prioritizes the safety of its young users and denied it’s a national security risk. He reiterated the company’s plan to protect U.S. user data by storing it on servers maintained and owned by the software giant Oracle.

“Let me state this unequivocally: ByteDance is not an agent of China or any other country,” Mr. Chew said.

Nevertheless, the company has been dogged by claims that its Chinese ownership means user data could end up in the hands of the Chinese government or that it could be used to promote narratives favorable to the country’s communist leaders.

In 2019, the Guardian reported that TikTok was instructing its moderators to censor videos that mention Tiananmen Square and included images unfavorable to the Chinese government. The platform says it has since changed its moderation practices.

Concerns about the platform increased when ByteDance admitted in December that it fired four employees who accessed data on two journalists, and people connected to them, last summer while attempting to uncover the source of a leaked report about the company.

Aware of its weakness, TikTok has been trying to distance itself from its Chinese origins, saying 60% of ByteDance is owned by global institutional investors such as Carlyle Group.

“Ownership is not at the core of addressing these concerns,” Mr. Chew said.

But for many others, it is. The Biden administration has reportedly demanded TikTok’s Chinese owners sell their stakes in the company to avoid a nationwide ban. China has said it would oppose those attempts. Meanwhile, Secretary of State Anthony Blinken said at a separate committee hearing Thursday that he believes TikTok is a security threat, and “should be ended one way or another.”

White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said “everyone was watching” Thursday’s TikTok hearing at the White House. But she declined to comment on specific actions the administration could take to address its TikTok concerns.

In one of the most dramatic moments of the hearing, Republican Rep. Kat Cammack played a TikTok video showing a shooting gun with a caption that included the House committee, with the exact date before it was formally announced.

“You expect us to believe that you are capable of maintaining the data security, privacy and security of 150 million Americans where you can’t even protect the people in this room,” Mr. Cammack said.

TikTok said the company on Thursday removed the video and banned the account that posted it.

Concerns about what kind of content Americans encounter online, or how their data is collected by technology companies, isn’t new. Congress has been wanting to curtail the amount of data tech companies collect on consumers through a national privacy law, but those efforts have failed.

At a news conference on Wednesday, Rep. Jamaal Bowman, a New York Democrat and one of the few allies TikTok seemingly has on the Hill, said lawmakers concerned about protecting users shouldn’t target TikTok, but must instead focus on a national law that would protect user data across all social media platforms. Mr. Chew also noted the failure of U.S. social media companies to address the very concerns for which TikTok was being criticized.

“American social companies don’t have a good track record with data privacy and user security,” he said. “Look at Facebook and Cambridge Analytica, just one example.”

Committee members also showed a host of TikTok videos that encouraged users to harm themselves and commit suicide. Many questioned why the platform’s Chinese counterpart, Douyin, does not carry the same potentially dangerous content as the American product.

Mr. Chew responded that it depends on the laws of the country where the app is operating. He said the company has about 40,000 moderators that track harmful content and an algorithm that flags material.

Wealth management firm Wedbush described the hearing as a “disaster” for TikTok that made a ban more likely if it doesn’t separate from its Chinese parent. Emile El Nems, an analyst at Moody’s Investors Service, said a ban would benefit TikTok rivals YouTube, Instagram and Snap, “likely resulting in higher revenue share of the total advertising wallet.”

To avoid a ban, TikTok has been trying to sell officials on a $1.5 billion plan, Project Texas, which routes all U.S. user data to servers owned and maintained by the software giant Oracle.

As of October, all new U.S. user data was being stored inside the country. The company started deleting all historic U.S. user data from non-Oracle servers this month, in a process expected to be completed this year, Mr. Chew said.

Republican Rep. Dan Crenshaw noted that regardless of what the company does to assure lawmakers it will protect U.S. user data, the Chinese government can still have significant influence over its parent company and ask it to turn over data through its national security laws.

Congress, the White House, U.S. armed forces and more than half of U.S. states have already banned the use of the app from official devices. Similar bans have been imposed in other countries including Denmark, Canada, Great Britain and New Zealand, as well as the European Union.

A complete TikTok ban in the U.S. would risk political and popular backlash from its young user base and civil liberties groups.

David Kennedy, a former government intelligence officer who runs the cybersecurity company TrustedSec, said he agrees with restricting TikTok access on government-issued phones but that a nationwide ban might be too extreme.

“We have Tesla in China, we have Microsoft in China, we have Apple in China. Are they going to start banning us now?” Kennedy said. “It could escalate very quickly.”

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TikTok CEO grilled by skeptical US lawmakers over national security threat

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A nearly six-hour grilling of TikTok’s CEO by lawmakers brought the platform’s 150 million US users no closer to an answer as to whether the app will be wiped from their devices.

US lawmakers on Thursday pressed Shou Zi Chew over data security and harmful content, responding skeptically during a tense committee hearing to his assurances that the hugely popular video-sharing app prioritises user safety and should not be banned due to its Chinese connections.

In a bipartisan effort to rein in the power of a major social media platform, Republican and Democratic lawmakers hurled questions on a host of topics, including TikTok’s content moderation practices, how the company plans to secure American data from Beijing, and its spying on journalists.

Chew spent most of the hearing attempting to push back assertions that TikTok, or its Chinese parent company, ByteDance, are tools of the Chinese government. But he failed to answer uncomfortable questions about human rights abuses committed by China against the Uyghurs, and seemed taken aback by a TikTok video displayed by one lawmaker that advocated for violence against the House committee holding the hearing.

The rare public appearance by the 40-year-old Singapore native comes at a crucial time for the company. TikTok has ballooned its American user base to 150 million in a few short years, but its increasing dominance is being threated by a potential nationwide ban in the US and growing fears among officials about protecting user data from China’s communist government.

There’s also symbolism for lawmakers in taking on TikTok, which has been swept up in a wider geopolitical battle between Beijing and Washington over trade and technology, as well as heightened tensions due to recent balloon politics and China’s relationship with Russia.

“Mr. Chew, you are here because the American people need the truth about the threat TikTok poses to our national and personal security,” Committee Chair Cathy McMorris Rodgers, a Republican, said in her opening statement.

Chew told the House Committee on Energy and Commerce that TikTok prioritises the safety of its young users and denied it’s a national security risk. He reiterated the company’s plan to protect US user data by storing it on servers maintained and owned by the software giant Oracle.

“Let me state this unequivocally: ByteDance is not an agent of China or any other country,” Chew said.

Nevertheless, the company has been dogged by claims that its Chinese ownership means user data could end up in the hands of the Chinese government or that it could be used to promote narratives favourable to the country’s communist leaders.

In 2019, the Guardian reported that TikTok was instructing its moderators to censor videos that mention Tiananmen Square and included images unfavorable to the Chinese government. The platform says it has since changed its moderation practices.

Concerns about the platform increased when ByteDance admitted in December that it fired four employees who accessed data on two journalists, and people connected to them, last summer while attempting to uncover the source of a leaked report about the company.

Aware of its weakness, TikTok has been trying to distance itself from its Chinese origins, saying 60% of ByteDance is owned by global institutional investors such as Carlyle Group.

“Ownership is not at the core of addressing these concerns,” Chew said.

But for many others, it is. The Biden administration has reportedly demanded TikTok’s Chinese owners sell their stakes in the company to avoid a nationwide ban. China has said it would oppose those attempts. Meanwhile, Secretary of State Anthony Blinken said at a separate committee hearing Thursday that he believes TikTok is a security threat, and “should be ended one way or another.”

White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said “everyone was watching” Thursday’s TikTok hearing at the White House. But she declined to comment on specific actions the administration could take to address its TikTok concerns.

In one of the most dramatic moments of the hearing, Republican Rep. Kat Cammack played a TikTok video showing a shooting gun with a caption that included the House committee, with the exact date before it was formally announced.

“You expect us to believe that you are capable of maintaining the data security, privacy and security of 150 million Americans where you can’t even protect the people in this room,” Cammack said.

TikTok said the company on Thursday removed the video and banned the account that posted it.

Concerns about what kind of content Americans encounter online, or how their data is collected by technology companies, isn’t new. Congress has been wanting to curtail the amount of data tech companies collect on consumers through a national privacy law, but those efforts have failed.

At a news conference on Wednesday, Rep. Jamaal Bowman, a New York Democrat and one of the few allies TikTok seemingly has on the Hill, said lawmakers concerned about protecting users shouldn’t target TikTok, but must instead focus on a national law that would protect user data across all social media platforms. Chew also noted the failure of U.S. social media companies to address the very concerns for which TikTok was being criticized.

“American social companies don’t have a good track record with data privacy and user security,” he said. “Look at Facebook and Cambridge Analytica, just one example.”

Committee members also showed a host of TikTok videos that encouraged users to harm themselves and commit suicide. Many questioned why the platform’s Chinese counterpart, Douyin, does not carry the same potentially dangerous content as the American product.

Chew responded that it depends on the laws of the country where the app is operating. He said the company has about 40,000 moderators that track harmful content and an algorithm that flags material.

Wealth management firm Wedbush described the hearing as a “disaster” for TikTok that made a ban more likely if it doesn’t separate from its Chinese parent. Emile El Nems, an analyst at Moody’s Investors Service, said a ban would benefit TikTok rivals YouTube, Instagram and Snap, “likely resulting in higher revenue share of the total advertising wallet.”

To avoid a ban, TikTok has been trying to sell officials on a $1.5 billion plan, Project Texas, which routes all US user data to servers owned and maintained by the software giant Oracle.

As of October, all new US user data was being stored inside the country. The company started deleting all historic US user data from non-Oracle servers this month, in a process expected to be completed this year, Chew said.

Republican Rep. Dan Crenshaw noted that regardless of what the company does to assure lawmakers it will protect US user data, the Chinese government can still have significant influence over its parent company and ask it to turn over data through its national security laws.

Congress, the White House, US armed forces and more than half of US states have already banned the use of the app from official devices. Similar bans have been imposed in other countries including Denmark, Canada, Great Britain and New Zealand, as well as the European Union.

A complete TikTok ban in the US would risk political and popular backlash from its young user base and civil liberties groups.

David Kennedy, a former government intelligence officer who runs the cybersecurity company TrustedSec, said he agrees with restricting TikTok access on government-issued phones but that a nationwide ban might be too extreme.

“We have Tesla in China, we have Microsoft in China, we have Apple in China. Are they going to start banning us now?” Kennedy said. “It could escalate very quickly.”

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WaPo tech journo asserts with zero evidence that there’s ‘zero evidence’ TikTok is a ChiCom spy tool

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TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew testified today before the House Energy and Commerce Committee. And it’s been quite a spectacle. Lots of stuff happening.

Fortunately, we’ve got Washington Post tech reporter Drew Harwell on the hearing beat to break down the proceedings for us. And who better to cover this than the Washington Post?

It’s important to stick to reporting on what you know. And that’s exactly what Drew’s doing. Just look:

Must’ve been some lunch. Based on Drew’s tweets about the hearing today, we’re guessing Chew picked up the tab.

“Not nearly true,” you guys.

Don’t worry. Drew Harwell’s not nearly finished:

“Zero evidence.”

OK, that seems like a good enough place to stop. The floor’s getting wet from all the water splashing out of the buckets Drew’s carrying.

Yeah, look at him! Such a good little soldier.

Well, yeah. They kinda do, remember?

Maybe it happened when Drew and Chew went to lunch.

We won’t hold our breath for Drew to press him on that.

Well, he clearly doesn’t know what journalism is.

Heh.

Bless his heart.

Well, that’s exactly what it is, so.

Good question.

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Checks & Imbalances: Feds Investigate ByteDance, AOC Is Hiring

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Today we look at an investigation into ByteDance, a job opening with the Ocasio-Cortez campaign and tech leaders’ efforts to get a bailout for Silicon Valley Bank.

The FBI And DOJ Are Investigating ByteDance’s Use Of TikTok To Spy On Journalists

“The FBI and the Department of Justice are investigating the events that led TikTok’s Chinese parent company, ByteDance, to use the app to surveil American journalists, including this reporter, according to sources familiar with the departments’ actions,” reports Emily Baker-White:

According to a source in position to know, the DOJ Criminal Division, Fraud Section, working alongside the Office of the U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia, has subpoenaed information from ByteDance regarding efforts by its employees to access U.S. journalists’ location information or other private user data using the TikTok app. According to two sources, the FBI has been conducting interviews related to the surveillance. ByteDance’s use of the app to surveil U.S. citizens was first reported by Forbes in October, and confirmed by an internal company investigation in December.

“We have strongly condemned the actions of the individuals found to have been involved, and they are no longer employed at ByteDance. Our internal investigation is still ongoing, and we will cooperate with any official investigations when brought to us,” said ByteDance spokesperson Jennifer Banks. TikTok did not respond to a request for comment.

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Sens. Blackburn and Blumenthal Join Forbes To Discuss Bill To Keep Kids Safe Online

Sens. Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.) and Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) join Brittany Lewis in “Forbes Newsroom” to discuss their bipartisan legislation, the Kids Online Safety Act.

50 Tech Leaders Circulated A Private Memo In Washington Calling For Action On SVB

“As SVB careened towards catastrophe, some 50 founders, VCs, economists and comms experts gathered in a WhatsApp group to draft a memo calling for urgent preservation of its deposits for the sake of the broader economy. Then they sent it to Washington,” reports Alex Konrad.

Just after 5:30 pm Pacific on Saturday, a memo started making the rounds among policymaker staff. Called “United States Cascade Bank Failure Scenario,” the private document laid out the case for why the U.S. government needed to take “decisive action” to avoid a continued bank run in the wake of the abrupt closure of Silicon Valley Bank.

“Today, most Americans assume the SVB failure is contained to the tech economy, but this is not true,” the document said, before laying out a primer on how SVB collapsed and the dire consequences for inaction — insolvency for regional banks, massive job cuts and the loss of banking services for wide swaths of the country, far from Silicon Valley. “The risks to the U.S. economy could be sudden, severe, and extensive,” it warned.

Whereas some prominent voices in tech took to Twitter for all-caps concern tweets, the memo was unsigned, but it was authored by a coterie of almost 50 leaders within and beyond the tech ecosystem. From Thursday through the weekend, they crowd-sourced information and coordinated ad hoc outreach to staffers in the California governor’s office, the White House, and to lawmakers like Ro Khanna, Katie Porter, Elizabeth Warren and JD Vance.

‘We Are Up Against A Fiscal Cliff’: Rep. Josh Brecheen Talks Budget And Economic Plans With Forbes

Rep. Josh Brecheen (R-Okla.) joins “Forbes Newsroom” to discuss his first term in Congress, the budget and debt ceiling negotiations and his top policy areas.

AOC Searching For New Campaign Manager After Previous One Blamed For Met Gala Fiasco

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is looking for a new campaign manager after her previous one was blamed for dropping the ball on payments related to her Met Gala appearance. That lapse led the House ethics office to find “substantial reason to believe” the congresswoman violated ethics laws by “accept[ing] impermissible gifts.”

In September 2021, the New York Democrat attended the Met Gala, famously wearing a white dress with “Tax the Rich” scrawled across the backside. That appearance led the nonpartisan Office of Congressional Ethics to launch an investigation. Its inquiry discovered that Ocasio-Cortez did not pay for her dress, hair styling, makeup and other services until after the investigation was launched, five months after the gala.

Ocasio-Cortez told investigators she planned to personally pay for those services and had authorized her campaign manager to coordinate payments with the vendors, according to a transcript of her interview. “I continued to follow up on this thing because it was stressing me out, and I genuinely do not know what had happened,” Ocasio-Cortez said. “I had continued to get this kind of holding pattern response [from her campaign manager].”

“I just never, ever, ever would have allowed that to happen knowing what I have learned, but that I wasn’t privy to the invoices,” the congresswoman said.

The campaign manager, who was still employed by Ocasio-Cortez at the time of her interview in May 2022, provided investigators with a similar account. The campaign manager said she didn’t pay for the dress as she didn’t think the invoice was final. She didn’t pay for the hairstylist until after it threatened to file a complaint with New York City’s Office of Labor Policy and Standards for Workers because the bill “fell off my radar,” and she didn’t have access to the congresswoman’s personal credit card. Overall, the campaign manager said, “other things kind of took precedence.”

The campaign manager’s name is not included in the transcripts, but other exhibits included in the investigation’s report identify her as Rebecca Rodriguez.

“The staffer is no longer with the campaign,” said Communications Director Lauren Hitt in a statement, declining to explain if the ethics investigation led to the split. Forbes was unable to reach Rodriguez for comment.

Ocasio-Cortez began looking for a new campaign manager on or before Feb. 7, according to the first date Google indexed the posting. Responsibilities for the position, which pays $120,000 to $165,000 a year, include “partnering with the candidate to design and oversee the campaign strategy, set and execute priorities, and manage a skilled team of staff, advisors, consultants, and volunteers in a community-focused, unconventional year-round campaign operation.”

Overseeing compliance is another responsibility. The ad does not mention that duty may include ensuring Ocasio-Cortez’s hairstylist receives prompt payments.

Tracking Trump

A musical collaboration between Donald Trump and a choir of individuals incarcerated for their alleged involvement in the Jan. 6 riot sold 22,500 digital downloads in the 11 days after its release, according to a music analytics firm.

“Justice for All” by Trump and the J6 Prison Choir debuted on March 3. The track interpolates the former president reciting the Pledge of Allegiance into “The Star-Spangled Banner,” sung by inmates housed at the Washington, D.C. jail. Trump is personally involved in the project.

By the following Friday, the track reached the top spot on the iTunes Store, which measures how many times a song was purchased. Through that day, the song had sold 4,800 digital downloads across iTunes and other retailers, according to the tracking service Luminate (formerly known as Nielsen). The track has remained on the top spot with digital downloads totaling 22,500 through Monday. “That strikes me as a substantial amount of downloads,” said an executive in the music-technology business not associated with the release, who asked not to be named given the contentious nature of the song.

The music executive noted that consumers have moved away from downloading songs, opting instead to stream them. “Justice for All” was streamed on-demand 600,000 times across audio and video between March 3 and March 13, according to Luminate. “That’s not a ton,” said the music executive. “You often see a song that really takes off get millions and millions of streams in the first few days. That’s less impressive than the downloads.” That play count was not enough for “Justice for All” to land on Apple Music or Spotify’s streaming charts.

The song also has not reached Billboard’s charts. But Erica Knight, a spokesperson for Kash Patel, a former Trump administration staffer who is involved with the recording, said she expects to see the song on multiple charts when they are released next week.

Sales of a $100 vinyl version are “significant,” Knight claimed, declining to provide actual sales figure.

“Justice for All” costs $1.29 on the iTunes Store. Profits are slated to benefit the families of people imprisoned for their alleged roles in the Capitol riot.

Watch: Your correspondent joined Brittany Lewis on “Forbes Newsroom” to discuss Trump and the prisoner’s track.

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Gilson Machado Guimarães Neto, Brazil’s former Minister of Tourism under Jair Bolsonaro, met with Trump at Mar-a-Lago.

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Rep. Mark Alford (R-Mo.) “had the opportunity of a lifetime” on Tuesday when an unnamed group ostensibly rented out Mar-a-Lago to raise money for Republicans running for Congress.

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In Closing

Private eyes

They’re watching you

They see your every move

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Checks & Imbalances: TikTok’s CEO Hits Capitol Hill

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Today we reveal TikTok making the rounds on Capitol Hill and offer a look inside your correspondent’s notebook.

TikTok CEO Is Quietly Meeting With Lawmakers Ahead Of First-Ever Testimony

“TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew is meeting with lawmakers on Capitol Hill ahead of his first-ever testimony before Congress, including several representatives who will be grilling him under oath on March 23,” reports Alexandra S. Levine.

Chew has sought closed-door meetings with at least half a dozen members of the House Energy and Commerce Committee ahead of its hearing on TikTok’s child safety issues, handling of user data and apparent ties to China, according to two senior Democratic staffers. He has met with several, including Reps. Lori Trahan of Massachusetts, Jan Schakowsky of Illinois and Scott Peters of California.

“He’s operating from a place where no one has trust in them, and he fully recognizes that,” Trahan said in an interview with Forbes after her Wednesday meeting with Chew in Washington.

“TikTok is in a really unique position right now to take some positive steps on issues that a lot of top American companies have fallen behind, and frankly even regressed, on—and I made clear to Mr. Chew that I hope to see him move to fulfill that potential,” she added.

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Wes Moore On Being Maryland’s First Black Governor, The Economy & Who He Supports In 2024

Gov. Wes Moore of Maryland (D) sat down with reporter Cat Oriel on “Forbes Newsroom” to discuss his road to becoming Maryland’s first Black governor, the state’s economic growth, his policies around policing and his political future.

Continuing Irresolutions

Updates on Checks & Imbalances’ previous reporting

The campaign of Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) is offering signed copies of his latest book in exchange for donations of $30 or more. It’s a fundraising/book selling tactic that’s common among politicians, but Cotton has added a seemingly new touch of transparency. The ad includes a disclaimer that reads, “Copies of ‘Only The Strong’ are non-royalty copies that do not personally benefit Sen. Tom Cotton, per guidance from counsel and the Senate Ethics Committee.”

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In an earnings call on Wednesday, Salem Media Group CEO David Santrella said “Justice Corrupted” by Ted Cruz was the publishing division’s top book of the last three months of 2022. Cruz’s title debuted at No. 9 on the New York Times best-seller list, but the ranking indicated that some book sellers had reported receiving bulk orders. Cruz has a history of using campaign funds to boost his book sales.

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Former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo’s memoir remains on the New York Times best-seller list, coming in at No. 13 this week. Pompeo’s PAC spent $42,000 on books the day his hit shelves.

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In September 2021, Rep. Tom Suozzi (D-N.Y.) did not comply with a federal law when he failed to properly disclose more than $6 million of stock trades dating back to January 2017. Now, out of politics after retiring from Congress and running unsuccessfully for governor, Suozzi “has taken a part-time job at Actum LLC, a lobbying, consulting and public relations firm,” Newsday reported last week. (George Santos now holds Suozzi’s seat.)

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Serial entrepreneur Richard Kofoed and his wife Stacy donated just $2,000 to candidates for federal office in 2021 and 2022, according to records with the Federal Election Commission. During the 2020 campaign, the couple contributed more than $800,000 to Republicans, money a former business associate claimed Kofoed had embezzled. That lawsuit is still dragging on. A trial was supposed to begin in May, but it was postponed after the business associate amended his complaint in February to add Stacy Kofoed as a defendant.

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John Eastman has raised $313,000 for his legal defense on the Christian crowdfunding site GiveSendGo. The California bar is seeking to strip Eastman of his law license over 11 charges stemming from his efforts to overturn the results of the 2022 presidential election.

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Disarm the Deep State, a PAC launched by QAnon figure Jim Watkins, missed another FEC filing deadline, as it submitted its February report 10 days after the due date. That marked the third time in recent months that the PAC filed a report after its deadline. Disarm the Deep State disclosed no contributions or disbursements during the reporting period.

‘The Sky’s The Limit’: Ben Cline Discusses Bipartisan Legislation To Help Veterans

Rep. Ben Cline (R-Va.) joined “Forbes Newsroom” to discuss the Veterans Entrepreneurship Act of 2023, bipartisan legislation that aims to help veterans achieve their small business or entrepreneurial goals.

Loose Change

The Congressional Black Caucus PAC’s legal expenses shot up beginning in July 2022, according to filings with the FEC. Since that month, the PAC has spent at least $274,000 on legal services. That’s more than double what it reported spending on legal fees in the previous 13 years.

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The FEC fined the campaign of Senate Minority Whip John Thune (R-S.D.) $30,000 for failing to properly report $292,000 worth of contributions in the 2022 election, according to a disclosure released in February. The campaign paid the penalty with donor funds in November.

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In January, the FEC rejected three complaints against Bloomberg News that alleged its coverage of Michael Bloomberg were prohibited in-kind contributions to his 2020 presidential campaign. The decisions became public this week.

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The campaign for Kim Klacik, a Maryland Republican who lost two races for Congress in 2020, agreed to pay a $19,000 fine after the FEC found her committee violated an assortment of campaign-finance laws. Most notably, it knowingly accepted $94,000 in excessive contributions, which it has since refunded.

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Ammon Bundy’s gubernatorial campaign in Idaho spent $79,000 advertising on Facebook, making the social-media company the largest recipient of political funds from the right-wing militant, according to state filings.

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Freedomworks for America, a conservative super PAC, reported making independent expenditures in the 2022 general election to support two people who did not actually compete in it. The PAC owes the FEC an explanation by Monday.

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The PAC for Deloitte, an accounting firm, failed to report $64,000 in contributions, according to a letter the FEC sent the group last week.

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On Feb. 28, the House Committee on Ethics held what is likely its only open meeting in this term. The public portion lasted about 2 minutes and 15 seconds. In that time, the panel emerged from executive session, where it deliberates behind closed doors. It then unanimously passed its rules package, which was the same as in the previous Congress, and proceeded to unanimously vote to go back into executive session.

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South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem’s (R) PAC accidentally terminated itself.

Tracking Trump

“Former President Donald Trump denied having an affair with adult film star Stormy Daniels and attacked her appearance in a lengthy statement issued through his campaign, hours after reports emerged that he is likely to be criminally charged in connection to a hush money payment made to her during his 2016 presidential campaign,” reports Sara Dorn.

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In 2021, the state of New Jersey fined one of Trump’s golf courses $400,000 after it was accused of violating alcoholic-beverage control laws in connection with a fatal car crash, the Asbury Park Press reported at the time.

Trump National Golf Club Colts Neck is up to date with its payments, a spokesperson for New Jersey’s attorney general told Forbes this week. “Per the terms of the consent order, the $400,000 penalty is scheduled to be paid in annual installments of $100,000,” said Lisa Coryell in a statement. “The first two payments were due on October 15 of 2021 and 2022. Trump National Golf Club Colts Neck has complied with the terms of the settlement and made all payments thus far.”

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Last Friday, a song by Donald Trump and a group of individuals incarcerated for their alleged involvement in the Jan. 6 riot went live on streaming services. A copy posted to YouTube has been played 320,000 times already.

The music video was released this Friday. It features footage of Trump, flags and the riot at the Capitol, including Ashli Babbit being shot.

Also, this week, “Justice for All” came out on vinyl, according to a new website for the track. The record (“45 on a 45!”), which is on sale for only one week, costs $100 and includes an unspecified bonus recording from Trump on side B. Plans to sell T-shirts around the song also are in the works.

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Trump is considering defeated Arizona gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake as a potential running mate in 2024, Axios reported on Tuesday. Lake’s campaign spent $111,000 at Trump properties, and she continues to be a featured guest at events at Mar-a-Lago.

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“Attorney Jenna Ellis was publicly censured Wednesday for violating lawyers’ code of conduct by making false ‘misrepresentations’ about the 2020 election when she helped former President Donald Trump try to overturn the vote count,” reports Alison Durkee. Ellis is one of at least eight former Trump attorneys facing consequences for their work on his behalf.

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Former Nigerian Vice President Atiku Abubakar finished second in that country’s presidential election, with 29% of the vote. In 2019, when he also ran unsuccessfully for the job, Abubakar made a high-profile visit to Trump’s D.C. hotel just a month before election day. Abubakar, who reportedly had been banned from the United States as a result of his role in a Congressional ethics scandal a decade earlier, acknowledged that he stayed at the hotel to demonstrate that he could get close to the U.S. president.

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Roger Stone, who received a pardon from Trump after witness tampering and lying to Congress, spent some time recently with the former president at Mar-a-Lago.

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Rep. Cory Mills (R-Fla.) was one of the latest visitors to Trump’s Mar-a-Lago office.

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Big Dog Ranch Rescue returned to Mar-a-Lago last weekend for its annual Wine, Women and Shoes fundraiser. Trump spoke to attendees. In 2021, the event raised $670,000 with expenses of $580,000, according to the nonprofit’s tax filing, which did not break down how much Mar-a-Lago received.

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In Closing

“Pulling your strings, justice is done

Seeking no truth, winning is all

Find it so grim, so true, so real”

—Metallica, “…And Justice For All”



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Retos de TikTok ponen en riesgo a menores de edad

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El último reto viralizado en TikTok que ha alertado a las autoridades es “El que se duerme al último, gana”: niños y adolescentes se intoxican tras ingerir clonazepam, medicamento que exige prescripción y vigilancia médica.
 
No fue el primero y, muy desafortunadamente, no parece ser el último de los desafíos en redes que ponen en riesgo la integridad física y emocional de menores de edad.
 
 Ya surgió antes el “blackout challenge”, donde las personas graban cómo limitan su respiración, ya sea con un cinturón o con sus manos alrededor del cuello.

 

También está aquel llamado “el cráneo roto”, en que tres personas saltan a la vez, pero las dos en los extremos lanzan una patada en el aire a la persona que está en medio.

 

Hugo López-Gatell, Subsecretario de Salud federal, informó el martes que suman
45 casos de jóvenes intoxicados con clonazepam en 18 estados por participar en e
l reto viral de redes.

 

 La mayoría se ha registrado en domicilios, aunque también en escuelas primarias y secundarias.

 

Nadie sabe cuál será el siguiente reto, ¿pero pueden los padres de familia adelantarse y prevenir que sus hijos no caigan en situaciones de riesgo surgidas de internet?

 

La respuesta para los profesionales de la salud mental es “sí”, si las familias toman en serio el tema, dejan de considerarlo “algo de jóvenes” y se dan cuenta que cualquier niño o adolescente puede ser vulnerable a estos peligros de la era digital.
 

 A raíz de “El que se duerme al último, gana”, el 23 de enero Cofepris publicó un aviso de riesgo sobre este reto en que advertía sobre e
l consumo de clonazepam en menores de edad.

 

Se trata de un
fármaco que requiere de receta médica para su venta, que inhibe el sistema nervioso y que es utilizado para controlar convulsiones y casos de ansiedad. Sus efectos secundarios pueden ser somnolencia, mareos, dolor de cabeza y depresión.

Control de impulsos, el neuropsicólogo Juan José Galván explica que el control de impulsos es una función cognitiva necesaria para la toma de decisiones, de las últimas en desarrollarse en el ser humano.
 
“Parte de la naturaleza de la juventud es, en ocasiones, tener dificultades para este control de impulsos, no porque tengan mala educación o sean chicos que estén buscando problemas”, indica el coordinador de Neuropsicología de la Unidad de Servicios Psicológicos de la Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León.
 
 “El mismo desarrollo que tienen no les permite ver mas allá de la situación que están viviendo: quieren vivir el aquí y el ahora en el juego y en el reto, y no tienen presentes las consecuencias en su salud, en su familia”.
 
Para el especialista, detrás de la búsqueda de seguidores, de ser reconocidos en redes o seguir el juego a sus amigos, en los jóvenes puede haber una problema de autoestima o presión social que los pone en vulnerabilidad.
 
Galván, también instructor del Diplomado para Padres que la UANL ofrece a familias de sus estudiantes de prepa, recomienda a papás y mamás monitorear lo que sus hijos ven o suben a redes sociales, así como con quiénes tienen contacto.
 
 “Por más buenos que sean los jóvenes, siguen siendo jóvenes y predomina este aspecto de su neurodesarrollo que muchas veces genera que se equivoquen”, advierte.
 
 Y se vale el “muéstrame lo que tienes en tu celular”, afirma.
 
 “A fin de cuentas la intención es cuidar a los muchachos. En ningún momento se busca violentar su privacidad, al contrario: se busca cuidarles”.
 
Muchos de los retos en TikTok son inofensivos, como aprender coreografías o usar la capucha al revés para asustar a alguien, pero algunos pueden ser peligrosos.
 
Óscar Figueroa, creador de contenidos y maestro en comunicación con la tesis “Variables que motivan la creación y consumo de contenidos en TikTok”, explica el éxito de los retos en esta red social.
 
“TikTok es una plataforma en la que lo único que te va a funcionar es seguir tendencias”, dice. “Además, es la herramienta casi perfecta para la creación de contenido más casual, todo está dentro de una misma aplicación.
 
“Eso da más posibilidad para que muchas personas puedan replicar tendencias y, en este caso, retos”.
 
Un artículo en Psychology Today resume las recomendaciones para hablar con los hijos sobre TikTok en tres preguntas: “Enseña a los chicos a hacer una pausa antes de publicar algo y que se pregunten: ¿Esto me dañará? ¿Por qué lo estoy publicando? ¿Me arrepentiré de esto más tarde?”.
 
 La paidopsiquiatra Magdalena Rodríguez Salinas dice que demostrar que se es valiente o hacer algo arriesgado no es nuevo: otras generaciones lo vivieron con carreras de autos o con shots de alcohol, pero ahora estos retos adquieren más visibilidad ante el acceso a internet.

 

Ella ha atendido a niños tras poner en riesgo su salud, incluso su vida, por algún reto viral. Al momento no ha visto un caso debido al clonazepam, pero sí de otros, como cortarse, dietas extremas o acciones vinculadas al suicidio.

 

“Si sabes que tienes un niño impulsivo, que siempre anda metido en problemas o que le encanta la novedad, puede ser más vulnerable a caer en un reto viral. También una adolescente que le gusta la validación de los likes o quiere ser tiktoker.

Éntrenle al tema

 Algunas recomendaciones para ayudar a tus hijos a ser críticos sobre los retos en redes:
 
 – Evita ver los retos en redes sociales como un tema ajeno y sólo de las nuevas generaciones.
 
 – Cuestiónales: Si tú me preguntaras si te doy permiso de hacer este reto, ¿qué piensas que te diría yo?
 
 – Pregúntales: ¿a quién admiran en redes y por qué? ¿Les gusta un tiktoker porque lee muchos libros por semana o porque le gusta hacer cosas peligrosas? Así podrás darte una idea de lo que admiran y lo que tienen posibilidad de imitar.
 
 – En caso de que incurran en conductas de riesgo en redes, no sólo restrinjas su uso. Indaga: ¿por qué lo hiciste, qué pensaste, qué buscabas? Así entenderás sus motivaciones.
 
 – Hazle saber a tu hijo que es normal si quiere formar parte de un grupo, ser reconocido o estar a gusto con su cuerpo, pero que puede lograrlo de una manera sana.

 Fuente: Magdalena Rodríguez Salinas, paidopsiquiatra

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A childbirth myth is spreading on TikTok. Doctors say the truth is different | CNN

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Ashley Martinez has four sons and is pregnant with the daughter she’s wanted for years.

Last month, she posted a video online imploring doctors to prioritize her life, not the life of her unborn baby, if complications arise when she is in labor and it comes down to that choice.

The San Antonio, Texas, resident is due in May and is one of a number of pregnant people who have recently posted “living will” videos on TikTok.

Martinez had an emergency C-section during her last pregnancy after her umbilical cord came out before her baby, a rare but dangerous condition known as an umbilical cord prolapse that can deprive a baby of vital blood flow and oxygen.

Martinez described her last delivery as terrifying. Eight months after the Supreme Court reversed Roe v. Wade, ending a constitutional right to abortion, she said she worries about what would happen if she faced similar challenges again.

Since the ruling in June, a number of US states have criminalized abortions, leading to some fears that doctors would prioritize the life of the unborn child during a medical emergency.

Martinez lost her mother to non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma at a young age, and the thought of her children going through a similar tragedy terrifies her.

“Having to go into another delivery where I’m going to have a C-section, it’s scary for me,” said the 29-year-old. “My fourth pregnancy was my only C-section. I’ve always thought about not being here for my kids just because of what I went through growing up without my mom.”

More than a dozen US states have banned or severely restricted access to abortions following the Supreme Court’s decision eight months ago. The abortion bans have led to legal chaos as advocates take the fight to courtrooms.

Even so, several ob/gyns told CNN that a hard choice between saving a mother and baby’s lives at childbirth, like the one outlined in the TikTok videos, is highly unlikely.

This trend on TikTok has sparked a flurry of dueling videos among pregnant women and other people. Some have posted videos telling doctors in such situations to prioritize their unborn babies first, and criticizing those who expressed a different view.

Martinez concedes that her mother, who died at 25, would likely have chosen to save her child first if she could.

“My mother, she didn’t have a choice, you know?” Martinez said. “The message that I want to send is just basically nobody is wrong or right in this situation. In both situations, it is a hard decision to pick your children over your unborn baby.”

In Texas, where Martinez lives, abortions are banned at all stages of pregnancy – unless there’s a life-threatening medical emergency.

Dr. Franziska Haydanek, an ob/gyn in Rochester, New York, who shares medical advice on TikTok, said she’s noticed many “living will” videos in recent months.

In most of the videos, a woman appears alongside a written message saying something like, “If there are complications during childbirth, save me before the baby.” Some people, including Martinez, reference their children in their decision and even show them in the video.

One was posted by Tuscany Gunter, 22, a woman whose baby is due in April. Abortion after 20 weeks of pregnancy is illegal in her home state of North Carolina, and Gunter told CNN she filmed her message in solidarity with others who said they would choose themselves first.

“I wanted to make it known where I stand and to stand up with other women who are getting bashed online for saying they would rather be saved first over their baby,” said Gunter, who lives in Fayetteville.

“As a mother to three young children, I cannot dump the emotional trauma of losing their mother on them as children and expect them to cope. While I would be crushed to lose a baby, I need to think of my other living children as well … And I know the baby that passed would be safe without ever having to experience any pain or sadness.”

Another woman, Leslie Tovar of Portland, Oregon, said that even though her state has no legal restrictions on abortion, she posted her video because she feared doctors would prioritize saving her unborn child to avoid legal ramifications in the post-Roe v. Wade era.

“I have two other kids at home who need mom. I can’t bear the thought of my two young boys ages 6 and 4 without their mom,” she said.

All three women said they’ve had these conversations with their partners, who agreed they should be saved first.

Of her husband, Tovar said, “His exact words were, ‘We could always have another baby later in life but there is never replacing the mother of my boys, I couldn’t do this without you.’”

It’s true that complications occasionally come up during a pregnancy that lead doctors to recommend delivery to save the mother’s life, medical experts said.

If this is done before a fetus is viable – under 24 weeks – the chances of the baby’s survival are low, said Dr. Elizabeth Langen, a maternal-fetal medicine physician at the University of Michigan Von Voigtlander Women’s Hospital.

Roe v. Wade’s reversal did make terminating such pregnancies more complicated, Langen and Haydanek say.

In cases involving a baby that’s not viable, it could mean that even when the baby is unlikely to survive and the mom’s health is at risk, the priority will be on saving the baby due to fear of legal ramifications, Langen said.

But both doctors say these scenarios don’t occur during the birth of a viable baby. In that instance, Roe v. Wade is “less involved,” Haydanek said.

“We do everything in our efforts to save both (mother and baby),” she said. “I can’t think of a time where the medical team has had to make a decision about who to save in a viable laboring patient. It’s just not a real scenario in modern medicine – just one we are seeing played out on TV.”

Hospitals have enough resources – obstetrics and neonatal intensive care unit teams, for example – to meet the needs of both the mother and the baby, Haydanek and Langen said.

“We’re usually doing our best to take care of both the mom and the baby. And there’s very rarely a circumstance where we will do something to harm the mom in order to have the benefit of the baby,” added Langen.

“If mom’s health is deteriorating, ultimately, she’s not going to be able to support baby’s wellbeing,” Langen said. “And so generally, what we encourage folks to do is really support mom’s health, because that’s in the best interest of both mother and baby.”

Abortion rights demonstrators hold signs outside the US Supreme Court in Washington after the court overturned Roe v. Wade in June 2022.

Both doctors said it’s important for patients to talk to their health care providers about their medical concerns and share their “living will” wishes with loved ones in case there are complications during labor that require partners to make medical decisions.

However, those decisions will not involve doctors asking your partner whose life should come first, they said.

“Before getting in a fight with your partner about who they choose to save, know that there isn’t a situation where we will ask them that,” said Haydanek, who has called the TikTok trend “horribly anxiety inducing.”

She said it’s come up so many times in recent months that she made her own TikTok video to reassure expectant parents.

“Please don’t feel like you have to make this choice,” she says in the video. “I know firsthand how much anxiety there can be in pregnancy … but it’s just not a situation that you’re gonna find yourself in.”

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‘Slugging’: A TikTok Skin Trend That Has Some Merit

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Dec. 6, 2022 – They’ve been around for a while and show no signs of going away: Videos on TikTok of people, often teens, slathering their face with petroleum jelly and claiming that it’s transformed their skin, cured their acne, or given them an amazing “glow up.”

Videos on the popular social media platform mentioning petrolatum increased 46% and Instagram videos by 93% from 2021 to 2022, reported Gabriel Santos Malave, of the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, and William D. James, MD, a professor of dermatology at the University of Pennsylvania, in a recently published study in the journal Cutis. 

The authors said that Vaseline maker Unilever reports that mentions of the product increased by 327% on social media in 2022, primarily because of “slugging,” which involves smearing petroleum jelly on the face after a moisturizer is put on. 

In a typical demonstration, a dermatologist in the United Kingdom showed how she uses slugging in her routine in a TikTok video that’s had more than 1 million views.

UnlikemanyTikToktrends, slugging may not be entirely bad, say dermatologists. 

“I think it’s a great way to keep your skin protected and moisturized, especially in those dry, cold winter months,” dermatologist Mamina Turegano, MD, said in a video posted in February. That TikTok video has had more than 6 million views. 

Turegano, who is in private practice in the New Orleans suburb of Metairie, LA, says she decided to post about slugging after she’d noticed the topic was trending. Also, she had tried the technique herself when she lived in Washington, DC, more than a decade ago.

At the time, she says, she was aware that “putting petroleum jelly on your face was not a normal thing.” But, given its history of being used in dermatology, she gave it a try and found that it worked well for her dry skin.

Turegano is one among many dermatologists who have joined TikTok to dispel myths, educate, and inform. It’s important for them to be there “to engage and empower the public to become a better consumer of information out there and take ownership of their skin health,” says Jean McGee, MD, PhD, a dermatologist at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston, and an assistant professor of dermatology at Harvard Medical School.

McGee and colleagues studied TikTok content on slugging and found that by far, videos that were created by health care providers were more educational. Dermatologists who posted were more likely to discuss the risks and benefits, whereas “influencers” rarely posted about the risks, according to the study published in Clinics in Dermatology.

Trapping Moisture 

Slugging is generally safe and effective for those who have a compromised skin barrier or “for those who have sensitive skin and can’t tolerate other products but need some form of moisturization,” said Turegano. 

“Its oil-based nature allows it to seal water in the skin by creating a hydrophobic barrier that decreases transepidermal water loss,” Malave and James wrote in Cutis. They note that petrolatum reduces that water loss by 98%, compared with only 20% to 30% for other oil-based moisturizers.

Dermatologists have often recommended a “seal and trap” plan for dry skin or eczema. It involves a short, lukewarm shower, followed by moisturizing with a petrolatum-based ointment right away, says McGee. 

This could be safe for the face, but “other variables need to be considered,” including use of other topical medications and other skin care practices, she says.

The concept of double-layering a moisturizer and an occlusive agent can be beneficial but more typically for the hands and feet, where the skin can be severely dry and cracked, says Adam Friedman, MD, a professor and chair of dermatology at the George Washington School of Medicine and Health Sciences in Washington, DC. “I would not recommend that on the face,” he says.

He and other dermatologists warn there is the potential for slugging – given petroleum jelly’s blocking ability – to enhance the action of any topical steroid, retinol, or exfoliating agent. 

Muneeb Shah, DO, who practices in Mooresville, NC, is one of the most popular dermatologists on TikTok and has more than 17 million followers. He also warned in a February video about potential downsides. “Be careful after using retinol or exfoliating acids because it may actually irritate your skin more,” he says in the video.

“Slugging is awesome for some people but not for others, and not for every night,” Whitney Bowe, MD, says on a TikTok video she posted in July. She recommended it for eczema or really dry skin. Bowe, who practices with Advanced Dermatology in New York City, advised those with acne-prone skin to “skip this trend.”

On a webpage aimed at the general public, the American Academy of Dermatology also cautioned: “Avoid putting petroleum jelly on your face if you are acne-prone, as this may cause breakouts in some people.”

Acne Cure or Pore Clogger?

And yet, plenty of TikTok users claim that it has improved their acne. 

One such user posted a before-and-after video purporting to show that slugging had almost gotten rid of her acne and prior scarring. Not surprisingly, it has been viewed some 9 million times and got 1.5 million “likes.”

Friedman notes that it’s theoretically possible – but not likely – that slugging could improve acne, given that acne basically is a disease of barrier disruption. “The idea here is you have disrupted skin barrier throughout the face regardless of whether you have a pimple in that spot or not, so you need to repair it,” he said. “That’s where I think slugging is somewhat on the right track, because by putting an occlusive agent on the skin, you are restoring the barrier element,” he said. 

However, applying a thick, greasy ointment on the face could block pores and cause a backup of oil and dead skin cells, and it could trap bacteria, he said. “Skin barrier protection and repair is central to acne management, but you need to do it in a safe way,” he said. He noted that that means applying an oil-free moisturizer to damp skin.

Turegano said she has seen slugging improve acne, but it’s hard to say which people with acne-prone skin would be the best candidates. Those who have used harsh products to treat acne and then had their acne get worse could potentially benefit, she said. 

Even so, she said, “I’d be very cautious in anyone with acne.”

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“Por eso me encanta ser maestro”: La respuesta inesperada de un alumno se hace viral

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México.- A través de TikTok se volvió viral el video que compartió un maestro dando clases a sus pequeños alumnos, pero no esperó la divertida respuesta de un niño.

“Por eso me encanta ser maestro“, dice el video cuando el profe Cris hizo una pregunta a sus alumnos.

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En la cuenta de TikTok @profecrisgm, el profesor hizo la pregunta “Lo que ustedes se ponen cuando tienen frío”, y hace una seña a su ropa.

Y todos sus alumnos responden: “¡Suéter!”, sin embargo nunca falta el niño despistado en clase y responde “y cobijas…”.

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El profesor no pudo evitar sacar una risa porque técnicamente tiene razón. “A mí me hacen el día los chiquillos”, respondió el profe Cris.

“A ese niño le espera un gran futuro”. Comentó una seguidora.

“Okay pero ahora me dan ganas de ser maestro de preescolar”. Escribió un usuario que se sintió motivado.

Maestro hace una pregunta y la respuesta de un niño se hace viral

Carlos Narvaes, egresado de la Facultad de Filosofía y Letras en la licenciatura de Sociología de la Universidad Autónoma de Sinaloa (UAS), quien ha realizado trabajos de investigación escolares sobre temas de inseguridad. He realizado diplomados en seguridad, violencia y calidad de vida, donde he conocido diversas perspectivas teóricas y son los temas que me gustan trabajar y que más me han llamado la atención. Comencé la carrera como reportero web en DEBATE desde el año del 2018 trabajando temas de sección de policiaca, política y contenido viral. Cubro especialmente noticias referentes de la Ciudad de México y Estado de México, me mantengo al tanto de las conferencias de la Jefa de Gobierno, Claudia Sheinbaum y también sigo distancias dependencias para estar al día de los hechos. He dado seguimiento a noticias como el

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