{"id":354481,"date":"2026-09-23T10:28:58","date_gmt":"2026-09-23T10:28:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/354481\/"},"modified":"2026-09-23T10:28:58","modified_gmt":"2026-09-23T10:28:58","slug":"news-12-bronx-proposal-aims-to-make-nyc-agencies-disclose-when-they-hire-influencers-for-city-communications","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/354481\/","title":{"rendered":"News 12 | Bronx | Proposal Aims To Make Nyc Agencies Disclose When They Hire Influencers For City Communications"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">A new bill is pushing the New York City government to be more transparent about paying for third-party communications.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The <a data-rich-text-hyperlink=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/legistar.council.nyc.gov\/LegislationDetail.aspx?ID=8212693&amp;GUID=12097868-3EEC-4624-ACDF-53F6D015DF63&amp;Options=&amp;Search=\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">proposal<\/a> would require the local government to disclose when it pays for material from content creators or social media influencers.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Any post by someone who is not considered a public servant would have to add \u201cPaid for by the City of New York&#8221; or the name of the associated agency.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Agencies that do not comply could be charged with a misdemeanor or potentially face investigation by the Campaign Finance Board.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A new bill is pushing the New York City government to be more transparent about paying for third-party&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":354482,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[9,24,63,134,136,135],"class_list":["post-354481","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-staten-island","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-staten-island","tag-staten-island-headlines","tag-staten-island-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354481","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=354481"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354481\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/354482"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=354481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=354481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=354481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}