{"id":153315,"date":"2026-08-29T18:55:04","date_gmt":"2026-08-29T18:55:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/2026\/08\/29\/the-new-york-times-our-media-and-politics-reporter-ken-bensinger-examines-how-political-campaigns-in-the-u-s-are-increasingly-paying-social-media-influencers-for-support-though-the-ties-are-not-a\/"},"modified":"2026-08-29T18:55:04","modified_gmt":"2026-08-29T18:55:04","slug":"the-new-york-times-our-media-and-politics-reporter-ken-bensinger-examines-how-political-campaigns-in-the-u-s-are-increasingly-paying-social-media-influencers-for-support-though-the-ties-are-not-a","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/2026\/08\/29\/the-new-york-times-our-media-and-politics-reporter-ken-bensinger-examines-how-political-campaigns-in-the-u-s-are-increasingly-paying-social-media-influencers-for-support-though-the-ties-are-not-a\/","title":{"rendered":"The New York Times. . Our media and politics reporter Ken Bensinger examines how political campaigns in the U.S. are increasingly paying social media influencers for support, though the ties are not always clearly disclosed. https:\/\/nyti.ms\/3T2RswT &#8211; facebook.com"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMioAFBVV95cUxOaW43SXBGNFZxTVZOMTZYWk9qUlI2aFlIeW96d1BtaTNSb2JYeHZzbXRwa1hIUlpIT3JEb0d5NFd2ZmdRZ1ZMeDVVMDZYa3BiUUk5UXQ2YjR6SkhFVXYxMFcyTUQySE40WG5ZTFlXdEJObU5VZ01UN2RXRXZ1MW5iUXkyU3BlV2J3TmYxQ1l4eHlpNGc1Rnpfa3ZvOWhnb3c3?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\">The New York Times. . Our media and politics reporter Ken Bensinger examines how political campaigns in the U.S. are increasingly paying social media influencers for support, though the ties are not always clearly disclosed. https:\/\/nyti.ms\/3T2RswT<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;<font color=\"#6f6f6f\">facebook.com<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The New York Times. . Our media and politics reporter Ken Bensinger examines how political campaigns in the U.S. are increasingly paying social media influencers&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/2026\/08\/29\/the-new-york-times-our-media-and-politics-reporter-ken-bensinger-examines-how-political-campaigns-in-the-u-s-are-increasingly-paying-social-media-influencers-for-support-though-the-ties-are-not-a\/\" class=\"read-more\">[more]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-153315","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153315","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=153315"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153315\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=153315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=153315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=153315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}