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Mayor Zohran Mamdani has assembled an army of nearly 200 \u201cinfluencers\u201d \u2014 giving the social media stars VIP access to push the lefty administration\u2019s talking points, according to a new bombshell report.<\/p>\n

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The study by the Columbia Journalism Review this week revealed a web of online personalities are being fed talking points by City Hall in an encrypted Signal group text, potentially running afoul of local record-keeping laws.<\/p>\n

Some of the influencers are even pocketing taxpayer funds \u201cfor work on particular messaging campaigns,\u201d though not for their coverage, the report said.<\/p>\n

The official Mamdani cheerleaders chat spawned from Creators4Zohran, which started during the mayoral campaign, according to the report.<\/p>\n

\u201cA group of content creators and influencers, the Creators4Zohran group that supported his election campaign was reconfigured to promote coverage and talking points from the Mayor\u2019s office,\u201d the report reads.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe group is run by the Director of New Media and Cultural Communications at the NYC Office of the Mayor, Emilia Rowland, and her staff, and members of the group receive daily updates, talking points and clips that they can use in their posts.\u201d<\/p>\n

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One of the influencers highlighted by Creators4Zohran, Allie O\u2019Brien, recently said Mamdani was the \u201cmayor of uncontrollable joy\u201d in a worshipping social post.<\/p>\n

O\u2019Brien, though, appears to live in Connecticut from online records.<\/p>\n

Another out-of-NYC influencer, who goes by the handle bananadotgov on Instagram, is from Columbus, Ohio, and has posted a number of lionizing videos about Mamdani.<\/p>\n

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\u201cStrange things are happening, because I have literally not felt this way about a politician since Bernie Sanders,\u201d she said, responding to the mayor saying he wouldn\u2019t take a pay raise in July.<\/p>\n

It was unclear if these two were on the group text, but they are often featured on the Creators4Zohran page.<\/p>\n

Read more Lindsay Clancy verdict watch live updates: Jury sent back for 5th day of deliberations after woman arrested for allegedly filming jurors<\/a><\/p>\n

City Hall did not respond to questions about the digital campaigns.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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