Venezuela Is the First Big Test for the Pentagon's Influencer Press Corps—and It's Failing
WorldBy Makena Kelly1/7/20261 min read
Mainstream reporters are out at the Pentagon, and right-wing influencers are in. The results are predictable, and oddly reminiscent of Iraq War-era warblogging.
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In the days following the kidnapping of Venezuela president Nicolás Maduro, members of the Pentagons new right-wing influencer press corps werent reporting on the operation. Instead, they were enforc