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10-04-2024, 06:37 PM
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz became the latest head of state to join TikTok on Monday.
A video uploaded to his account offers a glimpse of his office with glass windows. The camera then pans to show the chancellor sitting at his desk. Scholz also broke the news on X, formerly Twitter, writing: "I won't dance. Promise."
The spokesperson for the chancellor, Steffen Hebestreit, said in a statement that the TikTok channel would seek to offer more information to citizens who are "increasingly using TikTok to find out about and discuss politics."
The account will also offer a "look behind the scenes of everyday government life," he added. "We have to go where citizens go to get information."
Hebestreit said it was only "by chance" that the opening of the account came days ahead of Scholz's visit to China this weekend.
https://www.dw.com/en/german-chancellor-...a-68767512
US President Joe Biden joined the popular social media app in February.
A video uploaded to his account offers a glimpse of his office with glass windows. The camera then pans to show the chancellor sitting at his desk. Scholz also broke the news on X, formerly Twitter, writing: "I won't dance. Promise."
The spokesperson for the chancellor, Steffen Hebestreit, said in a statement that the TikTok channel would seek to offer more information to citizens who are "increasingly using TikTok to find out about and discuss politics."
The account will also offer a "look behind the scenes of everyday government life," he added. "We have to go where citizens go to get information."
Hebestreit said it was only "by chance" that the opening of the account came days ahead of Scholz's visit to China this weekend.
https://www.dw.com/en/german-chancellor-...a-68767512
US President Joe Biden joined the popular social media app in February.
