hmm. one of the creators mentioned in that Wired piece about liberal donors funding influencers strongly disputes most of the assertions www.instagram.com/reel/DN3xSpI...
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it also makes that Chorus thing look a lot better. according to her, they *are* doing a lot of the talent pipeline and backend stuff that I mentioned earlier, it's not at all secret, and they *aren't* exercising an iron grip on what the creators say bsky.app/profile/ryan...
I think paying established influencers would likely work okay, though I'd like to see more of a talent development pipeline rather than buying up big accounts. trying to keep it secret and attaching all kinds of conditions, though, not so smart, because it's going to leak and discredit them
Brian Tyler Cohen, who founded Chorus, categorically denies that it forbids people from mentioning membership or controls their content www.instagram.com/briantylerco...
source: www.threads.com/@bookersquar...
and I suspect this explains the rest of it. nonprofits always have this kind of legal boilerplate bsky.app/profile/book...
I think the non-disclosure thing is a serious own-goal by Chorus. But this is the sum total of detail provided by the article on "content control" - there's a clear throughline here, that the restrictions are around voting & campaigns. Notably these are also the legal red lines around 501c4 funding
here's another detailed rebuttal from someone else mentioned in the article www.tiktok.com/@allie_202_/...
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