johnny_deadeyes

@johnny_deadeyes@piefed.social

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When “Ordinary People” on TikTok Turn Out to Be Professional Actors⁩ ⁨⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Paid influencers may seem like a new phenomenon, but they go back to at least Edward Bernays. A current example I'm exposed to is a lady that ran for Lt. Governor in my state some decades back. Attractive, allegedly non-partisan, supposedly independent. She now shills for whoever will pay her -now the current administration. Though I've watched her allegiances change like the wind. Her output now is so venomous and obviously propaganda, I only keep her in my feed because she gets the new talking points before almost anyone else. It's instructive to watch.