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Title: Soros-Funded Dark Money Group Secretly Paying Democrat Influencers To Shape Gen Z Politics
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URL Source: https://www.zerohedge.com/political ... fluencers-shape-gen-z-politics
Published: Aug 28, 2025
Author: Tyler Durden
Post Date: 2025-08-28 23:07:06 by Horse
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Submitted by Jason Curtis Anderson of One City Rising, When Taylor Lorenz breaks a story on Democrat dark money, you know something strange is happening. Lorenz, who has made a career as the poster child for progressive social media culture, finally turned her reporting lens onto her own side. And what she uncovered in Wired is pretty dark: a secret program bankrolled by one of the largest Democrat dark money machines in America, designed to quietly pay off dozens of high-profile influencers to steer young voters toward the left. The story centers around the Sixteen Thirty Fund, one of the crown jewels of Arabella Advisors' dark money empire. According to public filings, this fund has been showered with staggering sums from progressive megadonors: $257.1 million from the New Venture Fund $64 million from the Open Societies Action Fund $20.2 million from the Hopewell Fund $13 million from the North Fund $5.6 million from Tides Advocacy A spreadsheet posted by DataRepublican on X bluntly spelled it out: "That 'dark money' group, Sixteen Thirty Fund, is Arabella Advisors and is pure Open Society passthrough." And this time, the pipeline wasn't just about elections, protests, or legislation—it was about directly paying the online voices that shape the political worldview of America's youngest voters. New York Post @nypost ‘Dark money’ group paying pro-Dem influencers up to $8K a month: report https://trib.al/zw60QPV DataRepublican (small r) @DataRepublican That "dark money" group, Sixteen Thirty Fund, is Arabella Advisors and is pure Open Society passthrough. Congratulations to Taylor Lorenz for finally catching up to what we've all known for years: that the Democratic party is controlled by Soros. The project was blandly branded the "Chorus Creator Incubator Program." According to Lorenz, more than 90 influencers were expected to join. The New York Post confirmed some of the names tied to the program: Olivia Julianna, the Gen Z activist who spoke at the 2024 Democratic National Convention Loren Piretra, a former Playboy executive turned Occupy Democrats podcast host Barrett Adair, who runs a viral American Girl Doll–themed meme account Suzanne Lambert, who calls herself a "Regina George liberal" Arielle Fodor, a TikTok-famous teacher with 1.4 million followers Sander Jennings, TLC reality star and sibling of trans influencer Jazz Jennings David Pakman, progressive YouTube host Leigh McGowan, better known as "Politics Girl" This was no casual networking group. WIRED reported that contracts explicitly barred creators from admitting they were being paid, revealing their funders, or even acknowledging the program's existence, operating like a top-secret mission by an intelligence agency. Breaking the silence could mean expulsion—and the loss of thousands in monthly income. The fine print was even darker. One clause gave Chorus the right to order creators to delete content produced at its events. Another required influencers to route any political dealings through Chorus itself, effectively turning the nonprofit into a shadow PR firm that stood between Democrat politicians and their own online supporters. In fundraising pitches, Chorus bragged that its creators collectively commanded 40 million followers and more than 100 million weekly views. If you've ever wondered why so much progressive content online feels eerily uniform, this is why. It's not organic at all, it's just another arm of the machine. And the timing couldn't be more potent. According to Pew Research, over 50% of Americans under 30 say they get their news primarily from social media. Among Gen Z, the number is even higher, with TikTok and Instagram rivaling traditional news outlets as primary sources of information. Combine that with the fact that younger Americans tend to trust influencers more than politicians or journalists, and you begin to understand just how valuable a Soros-funded influencer army really is. Two of the most prominent figures on the hard-left influencer scene are Taylor Lorenz herself and Hasan Piker. Between them, they embody the cultural energy of the young online left. Yet when it comes to their politics, both are radically anti-Western, openly sympathetic to America's enemies, and fall into the "burn America to the ground" category of the progressive left. Piker once glorified the 9/11 terrorists. Lorenz routinely amplifies fringe activists and thinks Luigi Mangione is the greatest thing to happen to mankind since sliced bread. Both sit at the center of an online ecosystem that frames nihilism and "death to America" sloganeering as a form of cool, cultural chic. Both play a key role in mainstreaming hatred for America to young voters. Now imagine this ethos pumped into classrooms, dorm rooms, and teenage TikTok feeds—not through organic content, but through a dark money- funded pipeline designed to bypass any form of accountability. That's the real story here: while many Americans are scratching their heads at the state of our politics, wondering why crime rises as prosecutors look away, why borders stay open, why drug decriminalization spreads despite chaos, the answer often traces back to a single man and his bank account. George Soros already bankrolls district attorney races, radical criminal justice reforms, immigration lobbying, "racial justice" organizations, and massive street protests. Now we learn he's also bankrolling the influencers who interpret those same issues for the youngest, most impressionable slice of the electorate. That should terrify anyone who still believes in transparency, democracy, or the free flow of ideas. And here's the bitter irony: Taylor Lorenz, a living embodiment of this world, may have finally done her most important piece of journalism, not by accident, but because the truth slipped out in a way that even the left couldn't ignore. She showed us how the sausage is made. What comes next is the harder question. Will the media class brush this off as "just how politics works"? Or will Americans finally see what's really happening—that their children's politics are being shaped not by authentic cultural voices, but by professionalized operatives on Soros's payroll? In a nation where young people trust Instagram more than the nightly news, this isn't just clever marketing. It's an engineered future. And unless someone pulls the plug, that future is going to look a lot like the worst instincts of the radical left—slickly packaged, algorithmically boosted, and secretly funded by a billionaire class that pretends to hate billionaires. Poster Comment: Over half of Nvidias receivables tied to just 3 buyers; 85% of revenue last quarter came from just 6 companies https://www.zerohedge.com/political/soros-funded-dark-money-group-secretly-paying- democrat-influencers-shape-gen-z-politics 
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