Source: The American Conservative
by Ted Galen Carpenter
“Although the relatively new venue of social media adds a wrinkle, the tactic of the White House or the federal bureaucracy using ostensibly independent analysts to validate the national security state’s propaganda is not. That approach routinely polluted news coverage in the so-called mainstream media throughout the Cold War and has continued to this day. Indeed, the latest scheme is marginally less insidious than many of its predecessors. At least this time the paid influencers are listed on official records as government employees.” (09/19/26)
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/the-trump-admin-isnt-first-to-use-paid-influencers/