More fraud

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make it as easy to buy a gun as it is for a non citizen to vote in california

 

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[Caveira]

33 minutes ago, Scouts Honor said:

 

Zero liberals on here will care about this type of fraud.  They are in favor of it 

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36 minutes ago, Scouts Honor said:

 

It’s hilarious they make this point as republicans are against socialized health care and love for profit healthcare where ceos of health care companies deny cancer treatment  to pad the margin

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6 minutes ago, Scouts Honor said:

 

Free busses for the the illegals 

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I have to say her friend is at least honest after being manhandled by the truth.   Most lefties, will pfft it and keep going.   At least she had the integrity to say, why is this such a problem when seeing the truth for herself.   Kudos to her for working with her friend and her friend for having intellectual integrity. 

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[1032004]

4 hours ago, Scouts Honor said:

 

Fake news.

A City Hall spokesperson said the mayor’s office “never paid a content creator for a collaboration or for content production.”

[Caveira]

5 minutes ago, 1032004 said:

Fake news.

A City Hall spokesperson said the mayor’s office “never paid a content creator for a collaboration or for content production.”

New York City taxpayers ultimately pay them.

The funds are routed through individual NYC government agencies(such as the health, transit, or housing departments).  
 

they say incredibly nice, highly supportive things about Zohran Mamdani.

The Columbia Journalism Review report and subsequent media coverage show that the group serves as a personal cheerleading squad. Since the network evolved directly from his campaign support group, "Creators4Zohran," these influencers act as dedicated online advocates rather than objective journalists.[1, 2, 3]

Examples of what these influencers say about him include:

• Worshipful Praise: Influencer Allie O’Brien posted about Mamdani online, gushingly calling him the "mayor of uncontrollable joy." [1]
• Fanboy Credit: Progressive influencer Josh Greene (who boasts 460,000 followers) has heavily praised Mamdani online. In one post, he went as far as humorously crediting Mamdani for a New York Knicks basketball win, stating, "Maybe the mayor's success in New York had something to do with that."

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[1032004]

1 minute ago, Caveira said:

 

New York City taxpayers ultimately pay them.

The funds are routed through individual NYC government agencies(such as the health, transit, or housing departments).  

AI slop 

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Just now, 1032004 said:

AI slop 

But it’s true.  Tax payers pay for them to say nice shit about Marmaduke 

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1 minute ago, Caveira said:

But it’s true.  Tax payers pay for them to say nice shit about Marmaduke 

About Mamdani?  Link?

[Caveira]

Just now, 1032004 said:

About Mamdani?  Link?

I posted it above 

[1032004]

Just now, Caveira said:

I posted it above 

Post the specific link to influencers (except for the one lady who is an employee) being paid to talk about Mamdani.  I’m not sifting through your AI slop.

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3 minutes ago, 1032004 said:

Post the specific link to influencers (except for the one lady who is an employee) being paid to talk about Mamdani.  I’m not sifting through your AI slop.

Read better.   The link is above.   Sometimes shit that is underlined is a link.  Not sure if you grasped  that 

There are hundreds of them.   And the link is a liberal rag 

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[1032004]

11 minutes ago, Caveira said:

Read better.   The link is above.   Sometimes shit that is underlined is a link.  Not sure if you grasped  that 

First link - nothing about being paid to talk about Mamdani.  There is some talk about being paid to promote city campaigns in past years before Mamdani was elected - https://www.cjr.org/tow_center/mayor-mamdanis-friendly-influencers-and-the-funding-of-public-messaging-in-new-york-city.php

 

Second link - same thing -

A City Hall spokesperson said the mayor’s office “never paid a content creator for a collaboration or for content production.”

When asked if other city agencies paid influencers, City Hall reps didn’t answer.

CJR researchers found influencers on the list weren’t paid to cover Mamdani or his policies, but did so voluntarily because they personally supported him, wanted potentially lucrative access or to perform civic service.

 

Some influencers, however, have done paid advertisements for city agencies, the study noted.

City agencies going back to the COVID-19 pandemic have tapped third-party marketing firms for ad campaigns, usually paying between $5,000 and $20,000 a pop, the study found.

But a Post review of active contracts found Mamdani’s Department of Social Services shelled out more than $100,000 this year for an unknown social media campaign. That three-year contract was originally inked in 2025 during Mayor Eric Adams’ administration.

https://nypost.com/2026/09/02/us-news/mamdanis-200-strong-influencer-army-revealed-blurring-lines-between-campaign-and-job/#:~:text=The official Mamdani cheerleaders,mayoral campaign last year%2C

 

Third link - still no claim of anyone being paid to promote Mamdani - https://www.yahoo.com/news/politics/articles/mayor-zohran-mamdani-taps-army-194810043.html?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly9pbnRlcm1hdHdyZXN0bGUuY29tLw&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAALOVMbEiL-Gu2s7k1xloMXNO6hm6SN6AFaI0EsPE7fbf6mHMRtuDqKJoWvLqHlOxyA6JaCEPPGLXMRrG2Jld5milBcfoiMQIjoTqxtjxcY8Zhpp_R8O6kXeF56YuPA3CgDByHIlICM2r_7LcqA-d9AhrUDpTfPDovWDNQL9hOdIm

 

 

 

You lied.  Will you admit it?

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[Caveira]

Just now, 1032004 said:

First link - nothing about being paid to talk about Mamdani.  There is some talk about being paid to promote city campaigns in past years before Mamdani was elected - https://www.cjr.org/tow_center/mayor-mamdanis-friendly-influencers-and-the-funding-of-public-messaging-in-new-york-city.php

Second link - same thing -

 

A City Hall spokesperson said the mayor’s office “never paid a content creator for a collaboration or for content production.”

When asked if other city agencies paid influencers, City Hall reps didn’t answer.

CJR researchers found influencers on the list weren’t paid to cover Mamdani or his policies, but did so voluntarily because they personally supported him, wanted potentially lucrative access or to perform civic service.

 

Some influencers, however, have done paid advertisements for city agencies, the study noted.

City agencies going back to the COVID-19 pandemic have tapped third-party marketing firms for ad campaigns, usually paying between $5,000 and $20,000 a pop, the study found.

But a Post review of active contracts found Mamdani’s Department of Social Services shelled out more than $100,000 this year for an unknown social media campaign. That three-year contract was originally inked in 2025 during Mayor Eric Adams’ administration.

https://nypost.com/2026/09/02/us-news/mamdanis-200-strong-influencer-army-revealed-blurring-lines-between-campaign-and-job/#:~:text=The official Mamdani cheerleaders,mayoral campaign last year%2C

 

Third link - still claim if anyone being paid tonpromote Mamdani - https://www.yahoo.com/news/politics/articles/mayor-zohran-mamdani-taps-army-194810043.html?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly9pbnRlcm1hdHdyZXN0bGUuY29tLw&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAALOVMbEiL-Gu2s7k1xloMXNO6hm6SN6AFaI0EsPE7fbf6mHMRtuDqKJoWvLqHlOxyA6JaCEPPGLXMRrG2Jld5milBcfoiMQIjoTqxtjxcY8Zhpp_R8O6kXeF56YuPA3CgDByHIlICM2r_7LcqA-d9AhrUDpTfPDovWDNQL9hOdIm

 

 

 

You lied.  Will you admit it?

Mayor Mamdani’s Friendly Influencers and the Funding of Public Messaging in New York City

A look inside the new New York ecosystem.

AUGUST 31, 2026By DR. ANYA SCHIFFRIN

Adobe Stock / Illustration by Hana Joy

 

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Whether he’s sitting with kids to promote pre-K, putting on a hard hat and holding a shovel to announce a new infrastructure project, riding a bicycle in support of bike lanes, or answering a question from an influencer on the street, Mayor Mamdani’s administration appears to be keeping busy promoting new policies and city services. The mayor’s office has held influencer-only press briefings, hired a host of new communications staffers, and created a network of influencers who push out his messages to their followers.

On TikTok and Instagram, influencers remind New Yorkers to vote, go to the doctor, participate in city budget talks, and compost their food waste.  

Our forthcoming report, to be published by Columbia Journalism School’s Tow Center for Digital Journalism and the Initiative for Policy Dialogue at Columbia University, maps this new ecosystem and the changes that have taken place in New York City in 2026.

We reveal that there are two types of relationships in place. There are pilot programs aimed at using influencers on Instagram and TikTok to promote city services and initiatives including immigration rights, public budgeting processes, and tenants’ rights, as well as preexisting campaigns providing information about voting and healthcare. 

There is also a newly created Signal group just for influencers, which was formed out of the Creators4Zohran group that supported the mayor’s election campaign. NYC Creators Announcements is run by Emilia Rowland, the director of new media and cultural communications at the NYC Office of the Mayor. Via the encrypted-messaging app, members receive daily updates, talking points, and clips to use in their posts. They are invited to events and offered interviews with city officials. 

Influencers who are selected to join the group fill out an intake form that describes where they live and what topics they are interested in. They will then receive invitations targeted to their interests, such as being invited to join a neighborhood canvass or film the preparation of a canvass. 

In many ways, the Signal group is similar to a traditional press list created and used by communications teams, in that the influencers receive updates and can decide what they choose to cover. There are, of course, clear differences between the work of journalists and social media influencers. These influencers have been criticizedfor not asking adversarial questions or doing tough investigative reporting. Influencers in the Signal group are not paid by the city for their coverage, although some are paid by city agencies for work on particular messaging campaigns.

The mayor’s communications team did not respond to repeated requests for a list of NYC Creators Announcements members. Members we interviewed say there are more than two hundred influencers in the group, ranging from micro-influencers with five thousand to ten thousand followers to some with millions of followers. 

For our report, we compiled a list of 189 influencers with ties to the Mamdani administration. We used reverse image searches to create a list of those who attended the January press briefing and added other content creators who seem to share connections. We looked at the frequency of content they posted about the Mamdani administration and non-social-media information pointing to an existing relationship, including press coverage or publicly available information about contracts with city agencies. 

As well as mapping the New York influencer ecosystem, we discuss how the influencers are selected and the types of collaborations that exist in the city. We are interested in formal and informal relationships and how these creators interact with more traditional journalists. We conclude with recommendations for best practices regarding disclosure of payments.