Biden campaign joins TikTok despite administration’s past security concerns: ‘lol hey guys’

President Joe Biden's reelection campaign released it first-ever TikTok on Sunday, during the Super Bowl, announcing it had joined the enormously popular app with a video featuring Biden — despite widespread data-security concerns in Washington over TikTok's Beijing-based parent company.

In a 30-second video captioned «lol hey guys,» Biden was given a series of «this-or-that» prompts related to the Super Bowl, including «Chiefs or 49ers» and «Jason or Travis Kelce» («Mama Kelce,» he said) before the final prompt: «Trump or Biden?»

«Are you kidding? Biden,» the president replied with a smile.

The video had garnered nearly 5 million views by Monday at noon, which the campaign touted in explaining the decision to launch an account.

«The President's Tik Tok debut… is proof positive of both our commitment and success in finding new, innovative ways to reach voters in an evolving, fragmented and increasingly personalized media environment,» Biden's deputy campaign manager, Rob Flaherty, said in a statement to ABC News.

«I suppose you could say our 'Roman Empire' is meeting voters wherever they are,» Flaherty added, referencing a popular meme on TikTok referring to something someone thinks about very often.

However, Biden himself has previously expressed security concerns regarding whether ByteDance, TikTok's parent company, could share user data with China's authoritarian government.

Chinese officials have said they would never do that and TikTok has defended itself by citing Project Texas, an initiative that the company said keeps all U.S. user data on servers within the country — «outside the reach or influence of any foreign government.»

Nonetheless, the president signed a law in 2022 banning TikTok from federal government devices