Marc Elias, the Democratic lawyer behind the 2016 Russia collusion hoax and the 2020 vote-by-mail push, is backing a “secret local media network” in Arizona aimed at boosting Democratic candidates on social media.
Breitbart News points out:
Elias runs the so-called “Democracy Docket,” filing lawsuits on behalf of the Democratic Party and claiming to protect “democracy” by doing so. He played a key role in the fabrication of the “Russian collusion” story to overturn the results of the 2016 presidential election, and in lawsuits seeking to change states’ voting laws ahead of the 2020 presidential election to allow for mass mail-in voting, a tactic that was crucial to boosting Democratic turnout in battleground states.
President Joe Biden’s reelection campaign parted ways with Elias in 2023, after he also left his former law firm, Perkins & Co., amid an ongoing investigation into the origins of the “Russia collusion” hoax, but he continues to support the Democratic Party.
Semaphores report Regarding the new operation called “Star Spangled Media”:
A secretive local media network with ties to nationally known Democratic activists is hoping to convince Arizona regulators that, despite the political leanings of its articles, the network is not a political organization and is not subject to campaign finance disclosures.
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Star-Spangled Media has begun making small spending sprees in recent weeks to boost advertising revenue. Morning Mirror Story A Facebook post touting the abortion rights record of a local Democratic candidate running for the Michigan House of Representatives.
The site is light on content, but it is backed by a law firm led by Marc Elias, perhaps the Democratic Party’s best-known election litigation lawyer and a central figure in 2024 politics. And Elias’s law firm is working to ensure that the quirky blog is treated as a journalistic exercise, not a political one.
Using fake news sites in elections is not a new tactic for Democrats. In 2020, the Washington Free Beacon reportA fake news network called “The Courier Newsroom” used “news” articles to boost Democratic candidates.
The Courier Newsroom, a “news” site funded by a major Democratic fundraising network, ran a seven-figure ad campaign to amplify stories praising vulnerable House Democrats. Millions Impressions on social media.
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The candidates promoted by the Courier on Facebook overlap considerably with those supported by major Democratic donors. Laurene Powell Jobs—Billionaire widow of Apple pioneer Steve Jobs and founder of LinkedIn Reid HoffmanThe so-called newsrooms provide a complementary tool for Democrats to pursue their political goals by running stories that mirror the candidates’ own press releases.
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The Courier Newsroom receives funding from ACRONYM, a left-leaning nonprofit that counts Jobs and Hoffman among its prominent donors. Jobs was denied Her donations fund the Courier newsroom, and it is clear from her concurrent donations that the Courier shares the same political goals as ACRONYM’s billionaire donors.
During the 2017 Alabama Senate election, a similar effort funded by Hoffman “posed as conservative Alabamians on Facebook and used the platform to try to divide the Republican Party,” Breitbart News editor-in-chief Alex Marlow reported.
Semaphore said the question vexing Arizona regulators is whether Star-Spangled Media should be subject to the same spending and disclosure rules as political organizations or whether it should receive a media exemption.
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