Nitasha Tiku

I mean, I was shocked at how quickly they sent me the documents.

I mean, clearly, like, again, I believe that they were, and this is just my suspicion, is that they were using AI for outreach.

And I'm assuming I, because again, I have a large verified following on TikTok specifically, and this campaign was mostly TikTok and Instagram, that it was just sort of sending general outreach.

And then this probably, I'm assuming low-level staffers just sort of blanket

spamming out information.

She sent me this influencer brief, all of this documentation.

Again, I wish my job could be this easy all the time.

But when I followed up and I said, well, thanks for sending me all this info.

I will be reporting on this for Wired.

That's when the boss came in and they started to threaten to sue me and all this stuff, which was hilarious.

Do you get stressed by them?

For God knows what.

But can I just read you what my TikTok bio is?

Please.

Again, they are approaching me to pay me thousands of dollars for Build American AI, a dark money group.

Because I report so frequently on dark money influence campaigns, my TikTok bio literally reads, independent journalist who has never accepted a penny of dark money funding.

I think they were trying to get you.

We were joking.

One of the editors was like, you know, it doesn't say that you never would accept dark money funding.

And also all the influencers that took, that secretly were promoting this messaging campaign on behalf of this notorious dark money group that's working with this super PAC.