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POLITICSPhiladelphia Inquirer·2d ago

An army of paid creators is carpeting the web with political content

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Paid content creators are increasingly being used to disseminate political messaging across social media platforms as a modern influence strategy.

Functioning more like birdshot than a single bullet, these high-volume social media campaigns represent the new vanguard of modern political influence, saturating the internet with a topic.

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