Dark Money Group Offers Influencers $1500 To Post Against Progressive
Campaign finance rules, especially those covering 'Dark Money' are almost non-existent in the United States, so when news that someone was offering to pay influencers $1500 a post for attacking the former journalist for left-leaning Media Matters, Kat Abughazaleh, it was assumed it was a national organization with deep pockets, such as AIPAC. Then there was some possibility that it could have been through her main opponent, Daniel Biss. That was denied by the Biss campaign. As of this writing, we still don't know who was behind it. The special election to replace retiring Jan Schakowsky is on March 17.
Source: MS Now
A week out from a crowded and contentious Democratic primary in Illinois’s 9th Congressional District, Amanda Informed, an online influencer in Florida received an email with an offer: one negative post about candidate Kat Abughazaleh on Instagram and TikTok, for $1,500.
The request, which came from a secretive political organization called Democracy Unmuted, was forwarded to her by Matt Anthes, founder of Advocators, a digital marketing agency focused on politics and advocacy through micro-influencers.