The action comes after the Texas Tribune reported that influencers were being paid to defend impeached Attorney General Ken Paxton.
Texas’ top campaign finance watchdog has voted to require social media figures to disclose when they are paid for political advertisement, nearly a year after the Texas Tribune reported that influencers were being quietly paid to defend impeached Attorney General Ken Paxton . In a 7-0 vote last week, the Texas Ethics Commission gave final approval to the changes, which were first proposed in March.
Others argued that it did not go far enough because it held social media users accountable, but not those who pay them and fail to disclose as much. “I just don’t want to pass the buck onto people that are literally only posting these because they’ll get $75, $80 or $90 out of it,” Andrew Cates, an Austin-based attorney focused on political campaigns, testified at Tuesday’s meeting. The commission’s executive director, J.R.
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