Photographs of demonic statues perched on store shelves flash through the TikTok video as eerie music plays in the background. Another TikTok video fed to NewsGuard suggested that Whitworth had made the decision to feature Mulvaney in an ad because he wanted to counter prejudice against transgender people following the March 27, 2023, shooting at a Nashville elementary school that killed six people. Jack Brewster is enterprise editor and Macrina Wang is a senior analyst at NewsGuard