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The emergence of companies that provide paid protesters or staged demonstrations, and the potential risks of this trend.
A small number of U.S. firms and campaigns have been tied to paid participation in protests, most prominently event-marketing companies such as Crowds on Demand, where reporting has relied on company ...
There is direct evidence that a small commercial industry exists offering paid crowd services — notably firms like Crowds on Demand whose founder has spoken publicly about the business — but systemati...
Claims that anti-ICE demonstrators are routinely “paid” have circulated widely, driven by presidential statements, conservative commentators, and social-media threads, but direct evidence tying widesp...
Paid protesters do exist: private firms and sometimes campaigns or interest groups have contracted people to appear at rallies or demonstrations, and companies such as Crowds on Demand have publicly a...
Yes — protesters can be paid without automatically compromising the legitimacy of their cause, but legitimacy is fragile and determined as much by perception, transparency and scale as by who signs th...