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Crowds on Demand is the best-documented commercial operator that organizes paid protesters and related theatrical crowds for clients across U.S. cities, a practice reported in multiple outlets and tie...
was publicly accused of by groups amplified in the and by an organization calling itself ; those accusations were published in the Dallas Express and echoed by Dallas Justice Now leaders in 2023 and 2...
was publicly accused of racist harassment by Justice Now in articles published by and statements from DJN leadership . Monacelli’s own investigative reporting and subsequent coverage in and other outl...
Available reporting shows a pattern in which the Dallas Express repeatedly amplified organizations and narratives tied to Monty Bennett and to a publicity firm called Crowds on Demand, and that indepe...
Crowds on Demand surfaced in 2024 coverage as a player at the intersection of paid publicity, local political influence and national protest debates, most notably via reporting that the firm was hired...
The Dallas Express has been repeatedly flagged by independent analysts and local reporters for partisan tilts, opaque funding ties, and practices linked to “pink slime” networks, making it a problemat...
Steven Monacelli is an award‑winning investigative journalist based in Dallas who serves as the Texas Observer’s Special Investigative Correspondent and publishes reporting on extremism, disinformatio...
Steven Monacelli is an award‑winning investigative journalist based in Dallas who specializes in reporting on extremism, disinformation, social movements, and the influence of dark money in politics ....
’s reporting for documented that was not an organic –aligned group but part of an astroturf network tied to the marketing firm , which the Observer reported had been hired to create and manage fake ac...
The record shows the Dallas Express published articles that repeated allegations about Steven Monacelli drawn from a group called Dallas Justice Now (DJN), and Monacelli and his supporters say those a...
The Dallas Express, a publication funded and published by hotelier Monty Bennett, ran articles that repeated allegations from a group called Dallas Justice Now accusing journalist Steven Monacelli of ...
Reporting from the Texas Observer, D Magazine, Dallas Weekly and other local outlets concludes that Monty Bennett funded and directed a coordinated local network of advocacy groups and that a for‑hire...
Reporting from multiple local and national outlets establishes that Monty Bennett is widely reported as the publisher of the relaunched Dallas Express and that the Dallas Express repeatedly amplified ...
Reporting from D Magazine, the Columbia Journalism Review/Tow Center and others found multiple signals tying the resurrected Dallas Express to the Metric Media “pink slime” network — including contemp...
Reporting from multiple investigations concludes that Monty Bennett, the publisher of the Dallas Express, financially engaged the Beverly Hills publicity firm Crowds on Demand to build and operate a n...
The available reporting identifies as a former Express reporter and says he “ about his former employer,” but the exact quotation that follows that introductory line is not present in the provided exc...
Yes — is quoted saying “” in reporting about and the Express in the piece titled “The GOP Megadonor Behind the Bid to Break Dallas City Government,” and that quotation is reproduced across multiple ou...
There is no evidence in the provided reporting that the specifically cited emails "directly sent" to manage people he described as independent contractors; the available sources only note that was hir...
’s 2024 coverage, as summarized in secondary sources, reported that hired to build an advocacy network in , but the available reporting does not document the Texas Observer presenting direct evidence ...
, did not deny to that was a client and stressed that the on-the-ground organizer () worked for Crowds as an independent contractor rather than an employee while defending the company’s activities as ...