{"id":337539,"date":"2026-09-04T01:42:06","date_gmt":"2026-09-04T01:42:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/337539\/"},"modified":"2026-09-04T01:42:06","modified_gmt":"2026-09-04T01:42:06","slug":"nyc-officials-reportedly-sent-encrypted-texts-to-influencers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/337539\/","title":{"rendered":"NYC officials reportedly sent encrypted texts to influencers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A report in Columbia Journalism Review detailed the Mamdani administration\u2019s use of Signal, an encrypted messaging app, which could go against city rules. The report says city officials communicated with \u2014 and sometimes paid \u2014 social media influencers about coverage of the mayor and messaging campaigns.<\/p>\n<p>Anya Schiffrin, author of the report and co-director of the Technology Policy and Innovation concentration at Columbia University\u2019s School of International and Public Affairs, joined \u201cInside City Hall\u201d to discuss her findings.<\/p>\n<p>Tap the video player above to watch the interview.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A report in Columbia Journalism Review detailed the Mamdani administration\u2019s use of Signal, an encrypted messaging app, which&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":337540,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[378,25,377,379,9,24,11,10,12,380,27,200],"class_list":["post-337539","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-app-inside-city-hall","tag-app-top-stories","tag-inside-city-hall-segments","tag-inside-city-hall-shows","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-news","tag-spectrum-news-staff","tag-top-stories","tag-vod"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337539","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=337539"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337539\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/337540"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=337539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=337539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=337539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}