German Chancellor Olaf Scholz joins TikTok but promises not to dance

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German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has created a TikTok account—and he promises he will not dance on it.

“I don’t dance. Promise,” Scholz said on X on Monday after his social media team published his first post on TikTok.

In the first post on the account, a member of Scholz’s team films her sneakers as she walks across the Chancellor’s office, before the camera pans to a briefcase, and then shows a smiling Scholz sitting at his desk.

Until now, the German government has not used the Chinese platform because of data security concerns.

To connect with a younger audience, Hebestreit also said the German government had to “go where the citizens are and inform them there.”

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