Social media is on fire with the Taylor Lorenz contraversy

[SocialDemocrat61]

over her Wired article.

Anyone here have any thoughts about it?

[underpants]

1. Here's the article- A Dark Money Group Is Secretly Funding High-Profile Democratic Influencers

https://www.wired.com/story/dark-money-group-secret-funding-democrat-influencers/

An initiative aimed at boosting Democrats online offers influencers up to $8,000 a month to push the party line. All they have to do is keep it secret—and agree to restrictions on their content.

[SocialDemocrat61]

7. A lot of people think the article

is a hit job against Democrats. The group involved, Chorus, is hardly a secret group: https://www.wearechorus.com/

[niyad]

2. ??? a clue, a link?

[Swede]

3. Free link at the wayback machine.

https://web.archive.org/web/20250827103655/https://www.wired.com/story/dark-money-group-secret-funding-democrat-influencers/

[Heidi]

5. Thank you!

[niyad]

4. The woman who left wapo after an instagram post labelling President Biden

a "war criminal"?

[SocialDemocrat61]

8. Then she went to Vox

and got fired there too.

[jfz9580m]

9. Maybe I am old

But I find this concept of “influencer” baffling

I follow this journalist I think is pretty cool Yasha Levine and his wife Evgenia Kovda..and they are very cool, but also in the grip of classic lefty imposter/purity syndrome. Levine is a serious journalist. I have read his book Surveillance Valley (which I would recommend to anyone interested in the military history of the net).

He is not an “influencer” imo so much as someone who the NYT etc would not hire.

Are old school oped columnists influencers? I used to vaguely think influencers sell products, so I am confused as to how Levine is one.

In fact it is such a ghastly concept that I ensure that any posts I make on DU tied to medications etc are strictly brand and marketing free. Advertising is ruining enough stuff as is.

[mwmisses4289]

11. We used to call them trend setters.

Of course, that phrase is sssssoooo boomer.