Influencers Paid to Astroturf Politics

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Influencers Paid to Astroturf Politics
Influencers are paid under the table to promote or attack certain politicians.
Current Revolt
Dec 31, 2024

Political influencers on X/Twitter are being paid to push hit pieces on politicians and even gambling, all while being paid under the table without disclosure or reporting.

We’ve written previously about organizations that were paying online political influencers to do everything from promote movies to defend politicians here in Texas.

But recently ConservativeOG, another organization engaged in the practice of undisclosed paid social media promotion, has made news after X took away the checkmark status of ConservativeOG and their affiliates. In one instance, a Texas influencer was approached by ConservativeOG to promote the gambling website Kalshi ...

Another ConservativeOG affiliate we spoke to who asked to remain anonymous told us they were approached with a paid offer to run “coverage of certain stories that attack (specific politicians).” One of the stories that ConservativeOG was paying their affiliates to promote was an attack on Ben Carson published by AFPost ...

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On Current Revolt's X page, they point out that the guy running ConservativeOG is a young homosexual who tries to sell photos of his junk.
ConservativeOG is managed by twenty-three-year-old Preston Parra. Parra openly identifies as a “twink” (gay man) and has often found himself at the center of various controversies. ...

https://twitter.com/CurrentRevolt/status/1874125199026627013