{"id":253630,"date":"2026-04-17T02:33:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-17T02:33:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/253630\/"},"modified":"2026-04-17T02:33:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-17T02:33:07","slug":"reporting-under-the-influencers-texas-monthly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/253630\/","title":{"rendered":"Reporting Under the Influencers | Texas Monthly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                Texas Monthly\u2019s Ben Rowen says political campaigns are increasingly using social media influencers to push their messages directly to targeted audiences. Republicans leaned on influencers effectively in 2020 and 2022, and Democrats have expanded similar efforts heading into 2024. The discussion highlights how influencers now play a significant role in shaping political messaging outside traditional media channels.\n                      <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Texas Monthly\u2019s Ben Rowen says political campaigns are increasingly using social media influencers to push their messages directly&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":253631,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[27,29,95776,28],"class_list":{"0":"post-253630","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-texas","8":"tag-texas","9":"tag-texas-headlines","10":"tag-texas-monthly-x-cbs-news-texas","11":"tag-texas-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253630","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=253630"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253630\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/253631"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=253630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=253630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=253630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}