David Pakman PANICS After Dark Money Dems Scandal Revealed
"I don't even know how to pronounce AIPAC!" says the pundit who's worked in political media for two decades
According to a story by Taylor Lorenz in WIRED, “A Dark Money Group Is Secretly Funding High-Profile Democratic Influencers.”
Lorenz writes: “An initiative aimed at boosting Democrats online offers influencers up to $8,000 a month to push the party line. All they have to do is keep it secret—and agree to restrictions on their content.”
Liberal YouTuber David Pakman is one of dozens of Democrat influencers exposed in the article as allegedly receiving money from a group called Chorus, which itself is funded by a liberal dark money group called the Sixteen Thirty Fund. The influencers were allegedly instructed to either avoid the topic of Gaza altogether or push the Israeli line.
After being named in the article, Pakman went on tirades online in desperate attempts to claim that he hasn’t received money nor signed any contract. But in a strange move, his arguments have become less about not receiving money from Chorus, and instead about not receiving money from AIPAC, which so far no one has accused him of doing. And here’s how he tried to prove it:
“Some creators [are] suggesting that it’s AIPAC – or IPAC – I don’t even know how it’s pronounced! AIPAC – IPAC? – that is funding this show. Of course not true.”
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