Nike faces online uproar over paid partnership with trans TikToker Dylan MulvaneyBy David Propper
April 6, 2023
Nike on Wednesday became the latest big-name company to face pushback from social media users for partnering with transgender activist Dylan Mulvaney.
Mulvaney unveiled
herhis paid partnership with Nike on Wednesday in several posts to Instagram, where
she wore some of the company’s activewear, including pants and a sports bra.
“Alert the media — I’m entering my workout era,” Mulvaney, a
transgender womanfake-fem, wrote in a caption for
herhis 2 million followers to see.
Each of the Instagram Stories is labeled on the platform as paid partnerships, which the social media site says “means that the person who shared it has a commercial relationship with the business partner that’s mentioned, and that they were compensated in some way for the post.”
Social media users had strong feelings about the Mulvaney-and-Nike collaboration, which came on the heels of
herhis partnership with Bud Light that sparked a similar outcry.
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