These trips seem to influence the way traditional politicians spread diplomatic information on their social media accounts. When the Trump administration first worked with the Naibu Bukel administration this spring to send immigrants detained in the United States to the El Salvador giant terrorism incarceration center (CECOT), government officials went to the prison and exploded the image of the visit online. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem stands in Cecot Warn of immigrants If they are illegally entered the United States, the prison may be one of the “consequences” they face.
The strategy is also not limited to clear political influencers. July, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu Joined the popular YouTuber group Nelk Boys Send a full podcast. More than an hour of podcasts provide Netanyahu with a new audience composed primarily of young people who seldom listen to traditional news, enabling world leaders to reach a coveted crowd to help Trump win in 2024. Netanyahu’s team lends a helping hand Send all To schedule an interview, John Shahidi, who runs the Nelk brand, told Wired.
“We are not qualified to do this,” Kyle Longeard said at the beginning of the podcast, with Netanyahu joining. “That’s fun.”
The podcast also shows how these political collaborations explode in the face of creators. Netanyahu accepts Netanyahu Send all Trivial Israeli war crews against Gaza and expanded Netanyahu’s propaganda platform.
“Ask him if he likes Burger King or McDonald’s… When people starve… it’s crazy.” (After traveling to Israel 365 and getting a similar rebound, Zirkle’s “way to separate” from Bannon War RoomAxios Report)
For foreign governments seeking approval from Maga Base, meeting these creators provides them with insights about American voters and provides a platform to talk to them directly.
“If you want to know MAGA, you have to understand the reasons why online ecosystems that add power to our movements. That’s why countries around the world are not surprising. Countries are eager to interact with creators with government breathing and finger interactions,” said CJ Pearson of Maga Aligned Creator.
In some cases, diplomacy through influential people can be blindly spotted in the existing laws of social media regulation and management lobbying, allowing creators to represent foreign governments without traditional disclosure.
“Part of the challenge for political influencers is that it is unclear how much the various competitive interests and organizations pay,” said Samuel Woolley, an associate professor who studies digital propaganda at the University of Pittsburgh. “Political influencers exist in this limited space where they are part of the campaign cigarette holder and another part of the independent actor.”
This points out what is new – not travel and meetings for potentially sympathetic and influential people, but uses them to build a new type of diplomatic messenger. Guerrilla influencers with millions of followers can expand foreign policy talk points on behalf of the MAGA movement and any foreign policy talk points that are eager to access their platform, which goes beyond existing rules and oversight.
“This makes them very valuable, given the differences in the law and existing loopholes give the hope of doing more under the table and doing things in a more casual or less tracking way,” Woolley said.
