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The 2013 New York mayoral election and the alleged use of paid crowd services by Anthony Weiner's campaign.
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...
has been publicly documented providing hired participants for political campaigns, corporate publicity stunts, and protests since its founding in 2012, with media and company materials identifying spe...
Documented cases in which paid crowds were used to influence political events center largely on a commercial firm, , whose founder has acknowledged selling staged supporters and whose services have be...
Crowd‑for‑hire companies have verifiable ties to U.S. political events, but the record is selective, contested, and often obscured by nondisclosure; the clearest confirmed examples involve the firm Cr...
Publicly documented links between high‑profile political campaigns and paid crowd firms such as Crowds on Demand are sparse: public records show a payment by the Six Californias initiative campaign, w...
Paid crowd services — most prominently the firm Crowds on Demand — have verifiable ties to at least one named political effort and alleged ties to a few others; public documentation is sparse because ...