Taylor Lorenz: Dark Money Group Funding liberal influencers

[DaStangMan]

This is just common sense if we being honest

Yeah there are grifters on both sides of political aisle

 

[Scustin Bieburr]

And as expected theyre lighting Lorenz up in her own comments section and in the comments of the video she posted. The top comment is asking her why SHE isn't disclosing who is paying HER.

I keep telling yall. The politicians are the matadors, the billionaires are the audience in the nice seats and you are the bull. The matador is dodging and stabbing at you until you're worn down and die(checkout from caring about anything) while the billionaires who pay the matador are cheering and watching the fight.

Journalism is a job with financial incentives. Taylor Lorenz like Anderson Cooper or Tucker Carlson is someone who needs to make money. Drama, beef, and sensationalism gets clicks. When you're an independent journalist like Lorenz is, she needs to do anything to get you to click so she gets ad revenue for the companies that pay to publish her stuff. There are conversations that happen where people like her are asked "how will publishing this affect our SEO"
"How much traffic will this get us?"
"How long will the debate last in the public sphere?"

This isn't about facts, truth, or giving you a direction to go in, it's about scaring or angering you so you click more.Check out her youtube page.


Tell me that these titles are supposed to make you feel anything other than afraid, sad, or angry and in the thumbnails she looks worried, shocked or unsure. The emphasis is always on how fukked everything is (some titles LITERALLY JUST SAY "this is bad" )and how it's getting and not what YOU can do about it, just like regular news that scares the shyt out of you so you don't skip through the commercials to find out what you're supposed to do a after the break(which they never tell you).

Use ground news or another news aggregate, spend an hour at most reading the news and then go about the rest of your day. Save your money, give back to your community by helping people participating in mutual aid and direct action(including feeding people, representing them in court, learning/teaching self defense, finding jobs, preventing them from evictions, teaching them how to use technology etc.) If you let this shyt consume too much of your time it becomes nothing more than the soundtrack to your misery. I promise you, even just sending 5-10 dollars or donating your old clothes and tech will make you feel like you've done more than watching youtube videos, streamers etc.

 

[Thavoiceofthevoiceless]

There’s nothing wrong with this. As stated in the wired article republicans have done the same thing for years now and it has benefited them immensely. Clearly as we’ve seen traditional media cave to Trump that the old way doesn’t work.


Here’s the wired article by the way

A Dark Money Group Is Secretly Funding High-Profile Democratic 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.

www.wired.com

It's most certainly hypocritical as it shows that Democratics are engaging in some of the same practices that they complain about Republicans doing.

Dark money is influencing both sides of the spectrum and there's nothing the average American do to change it regardless of how vocal they are about it.

 

[Lucky_Lefty]

OP act like Ben Shapiro, Clay Travis, Rush Limbaugh, Glenn Beck, Michael Savage, Charlie Kirk, Hugh Hewitt, or Charles Coughlin back in the 1930s and the reason for the Fairness Doctrine even becoming law, don't exist. These cats all I got one ideology in common

 

[get these nets]

Social media influencer types being given marching orders and scripts to read. Hardly surprising. They are propped up by the media machine, and wont bite the hand that feeds them.

 

[Sonic Boom of the South]

Stupid ass bytch wrote an article and currently receives money from the exact same group that funds the cohort she writing about.

 

[GunRanger]

"Dark money" it's a program that's literally promoted on websites.

She even wrote about this before, but now adds dark money to make things more sinister

Inside the Democrats’ Struggle to Win Over Creators

"What we need is for people to invest in independent media, and that doesn't necessarily mean investing in a consulting group that is going to become a middleman for independent media."

www.usermag.co

 

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[UnQuantized]

This is the game now, politics is openly amoral and dirty at this point get your hands dirty or get left behind

 

[Voice of Reason]

That gay light skinned Kamala Harris’s dude is getting funded too. Someone I’m post him y’all know who I am talking about

 

[Voice of Reason]

This fakkit was funded

 

[Mrhateeverything]

Not shocked by any of the names

None of them ever criticize any dems
Just total dem shills like Pakman and Brian Tyler cohen. Dweebs too
They just annoying to listen to in general

I like Kyle kalinsky, I’ve had it girls and majority report .
Even Hassan is better than all those names

 

[Black Hans]

Some of their agents clearly exist in TLR and Higher Learning

 

[keond]

If they paying them, it aint working. Plus who gives a fukk

 

[Kyle C. Barker]

I like Kyle kalinsky, I’ve had it girls and majority report .
Even Hassan is better than all those names

What do you get out of this cast of characters?

Sam seder and Matt binder on the majority report are actually good and know but the Kyle, Emma, and hasan (especially Hasan) are kinda misinformed.

I've seen Emma blame Biden for the Ukraine invasion because she was misinformed in believing that Biden was going to give them NATO membership which in turn provoked Russia (obviously this never happened). I've seen Kyle naively say that Biden could have won the election AND had 70+ dem senators if he supported Gaza more (pure naivety), and hasan is just hasan. His "Russia will never invade Ukraine" arc for a week straight before they actually invaded was peak naivety from him. And for a more recent example he claimed Kamala would be just as bad as Trump if she won which is just ridiculous.

The online left is too ideological with their leftist takes and I'm not really convinced they are outcome based like their maga counterparts. And it doesn't help that they view the pursuance of racial equity as a distraction in their chase of class consciousness (I don't think Emma is like this but Hasan and Kyle definitely are).