Corporate and foreign interests pour money into getting pro-Trump social-media stars to push their causes.

Last summer, Donald Trump’s 28-year-old former campaign aide Alex Bruesewitz had some new advice for the president: reclassify marijuana as a less dangerous drug. “Nearly 70% of Republican voters support Trump on this. No brainer!,” he said to more than 640,000 followers on X.  

What Bruesewitz left out of the post: A political-action committee funded by legal marijuana’s biggest players had just paid him $300,000.

Israel made plans over the past year to spend $900 million on an influencer campaign with a U.S. audience, according to disclosure documents, as Israel fights negative sentiment on the right. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met with conservative social-media stars on at least two of his visits.

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LJL. The obvious risk of developing an electorate whose feeble brains can be easily swayed by forcememes.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5821081&forum_id=2#49583171)

the only thing that could be worse than influencer posts would be if the posted opinion pieces were printed out and delivered to people's homes every day (for one thing, paper persists, so if people leave this printed matter out on the kitchen table, their children might see the wrongthink). i'd hate to see our democracy try to survive with something like the widespread availability of the printed opinions of partisans

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5821081&forum_id=2#49583195)