Marc Andreessen

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The a16z Show · Marc Andreessen: Monitoring the Situation and the Future of Media · 21 Apr 2026 podcast

If I want to run an advertising campaign to sell shampoo legally in the U.S., if I hire influencers to say good things about the shampoo, I believe this to be true, they have to disclose that it's a paid commercial.

They can't just like pretend that they just happen to stumble over the shampoo.

If I donate money to a political candidate, I have to disclose that as part of federal election law.

If I pay an influencer to take a position on a moral topic that is not a product that is sold or a political candidate, but it's just like a position on a moral or political thing, that doesn't qualify either as an advertisement or as a political donation.

It's fully legal to do that in the dark.

This is a great example.

So this is the thing where they're living the meme, right?

They're living the meme.

So I don't know if you may have covered all this already, but yeah.

So we know we're in this AI, we're in this pitched AI policy battle.

And we know through that, and we're deep into this, we know that there's dark money in AI.

Like a lot of the AI doomerism stuff is basically bought and paid for.

So there's these influence operations that are happening.

And they fall into this bucket of it's neither an advertisement to say AI is going to kill everybody, nor is it a political candidate.

And so there are organizations and companies that are paying, you know, and again, it's like not everybody who says that is being paid, but there is a lot of dark money in that world right now.

And so, and of course, you know, the partisans in that world insist full on, of course, that there's, you know, that of course is absolutely not happening until yesterday when they just go ahead and like live the meme and they just like announce the program.

And so...

So they announced the program in black and white right there on a website.

And it's like an influencer camp in which you're going to go dot, dot, dot, dot.

And by the way, it's free, right?

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