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A Dark Money Group Is Secretly Funding High-Profile Democratic Influencers (wired.com) 201

The Sixteen Thirty Fund, a liberal dark money organization, is paying Democratic influencers up to $8,000 monthly through its Chorus Creator Incubator Program, Wired reports. Contracts prohibit participants from disclosing their payments or identifying funders, the publication added. The program launched last month includes over 90 creators with a collective audience exceeding 40 million followers. Influencers must attend advocacy trainings and messaging check-ins while Chorus retains approval rights over political content made with program resources. The Sixteen Thirty Fund distributed over $400 million to left-leaning causes in 2020.
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A Dark Money Group Is Secretly Funding High-Profile Democratic Influencers

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  • by TWX ( 665546 ) on Thursday August 28, 2025 @09:43AM (#65621460)

    This has been a tactic on the opposite side of the aisle for decades. At this point why should we care in the slightest?

    • by Tablizer ( 95088 ) on Thursday August 28, 2025 @10:20AM (#65621578) Journal

      It's only called "class warfare" when we fight back.

    • by DamnOregonian ( 963763 ) on Thursday August 28, 2025 @11:02AM (#65621730)
      It has been used by both Democrats and Republicans for decades. It's wrong no matter who does it.

      Why should you care? Because how you fucking win matters, shithead.
      It's remarkable how Machiavellian certain liberal elements became when we lost to Trump. It's pretty disheartening.
    • At this point why should we care in the slightest?

      I don't care in the slightest.

    • by Shaitan ( 22585 )

      The opposite side of the isle? I think you are confused, this tactic has been on the same side of the isle all along. Advocate billionaires are mostly a leftie thing. That's why the top 1% experienced more wealth growth under Biden than at any point in modern history while the middle to upper middle working class all had their jobs insourced and the entire working class were told they 'can afford it' as inflation soared 26% in 4yrs. They only want class migration to happen in one direction and want the popu

  • by Z80a ( 971949 ) on Thursday August 28, 2025 @09:43AM (#65621466)

    Specially given it's a country that has literally just two parties.

    • by dwpro ( 520418 )
      Literally not true, but certainly the two parties have the bulk of the power. I vote for the apparently non-existent libertarian party candidate whenever he or she is not a nut job.
    • We have multiple parties, just two that dominate. They have successfully convinced people that they need to get on their team to beat the other guys. We end up mostly voting against things and people rather than voting for things. Ranked Choice voting would be an improvement.

  • If they are being funded by "Dark Money" then they are not democratic.
    Article is using the wrong term to describe them.

  • by algebrat ( 6236948 ) on Thursday August 28, 2025 @10:26AM (#65621612)

    My idea is to create a grassroots version of ALEC: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... [wikipedia.org].

    ALEC is a billionaire-funded organization that creates 'model legislation', hands it to representatives at all levels of government, and says: "introduce this or we will fund your primary opponent". Famous examples which passed include the Stand Your Ground law in Florida, Right to Work in Wisconsin, and the federal Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act.

    My idea:

    1. Web app where users enter a bill idea for the local/county/state level (federal is hopeless)
    2. Runs it through an LLM trained on a corpus of laws for that jurisdiction
    3. Generate a model bill with references to existing laws, similar to what a legislative aide would do
    4. Once complete, pick a representative you'd like to introduce it
    5. A GoFundMe-type interface which fundraises to get the bill introduced
    6. If the rep introduces the bill, the donated money goes to their next campaign. If not, it goes to their primary opponent (if there is one, obvs)

    Anyone is free to run with this independently if they want.

    • You would have company, as you're not the first to have the idea, and eventually your organization would be dominated by wealthy donors. ALEC was not founded by billionaires, just review the paragraphs on its history in the wikipedia page you linked, but over time any such organization is going to be funded more and more by the wealthy as they are the ones who can do it.

      Just keep in mind that they are generally going to donate because they agree and want to help, rather than doing it to take over and red

  • Free Speech (Score:4, Insightful)

    by i_ate_god ( 899684 ) on Thursday August 28, 2025 @10:28AM (#65621616)

    This is how America works. Spending money in the name of political promotion is protected speech in America.

  • Because of these dark money organizations and paid influencers the articles, discussions, news stopped being interesting.

    Normally a person have doubts sometimes, change mind from time to time, but not anymore: everything sounds on the same note to please a supervisor.
  • Gotta replace that USAID funding somehow.

  • Is this ... (Score:4, Insightful)

    by PPH ( 736903 ) on Thursday August 28, 2025 @10:51AM (#65621688)

    ... the reincarnation of ShareBlue? Because those people have shuffled money and personnel around between organizations faster than a Soviet spy changed passports trying to make it over the border.

  • Calling it a "dark money organization" is pejorative and meaningless. There is no definition of what makes an organization a "dark money" organization, other than that it does something you (the author) disagree with.

    And if the funding is so secret, how is it a slashdot headline? Clearly, it's not a secret.

    The political affiliation isn't relevant here, the same principles would apply whether the organization was left-aligned or right-aligned.

    • The idea is that "dark money" networks don't necessarily identify who is putting up the money. If any part of the org deliberately obscures who put up the money or who gets the money, then there is a potential problem. Reread the summary at the very least, maybe it'll make more sense in that light.

      Apparently Sixteen Thirty is less interested in shielding the identities of its donors and more interested in hiding who actually gets the money. Did you suspect that George Soros is involved with this group? I

  • Notable donors include billionaires like Hansjörg Wyss, George Soros, and Pierre Omidyar.
  • Funniest phrase I ever heard
  • You forgot to tell us how this ties in to Barack HUSSEIN Obama, to Hillary Clinton's email server, to Hunter Biden's laptop, to Benghazi, to the Iluminati, and to pizzagate. But it's still enough to get us to forget about the thousands of illegal acts that have been partaken or endorsed by the current administration, right?

    Yes, I know I'm going to get downmodded into oblivion on this. Go ahead, bring it.
  • Don't have to be a Democrat, just not a fan of antiamerican asshats like fascists or white-collar felons, or as they're known when they're elected, Republicans.

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