This may have been a pretty big own goal.

The plan was to pump money to left-wing shills who would obey the establishment and push its agenda, all the while claiming to be an "independent" media that critiqued the establishment.

But then it was revealed they were all being paid.

Progressives are not being chill about being deceived. So now, instead of propping up a compliant fake "independent" media, they've blown up the few left-wing influencers with large followings.

Left-wing shill David Pakman -- who I can officially, legally say is a paid shill of the Democrat Party establishment now -- defends taking money to push an establishment-approved narrative, telling viewers that he had before stated that the left must "support" its social media influencers the way the right does (BTW, I don't get any money from any group at all, just individual readers).

So, he argues, this is what "support" looks like. You support left-wing "independent" media, right?

So you should support us getting paid one-tenth of a Hunter Biden salary to shill for the establishment while lying about it to you and falsely claiming to be "independent."

Below, left-wing TikTokers boohoo whinin' and cryin' after finding out that their favorite progressive "independent" influencers aren't independent at all, just on the Democrat Party payroll.

By the way: I speculated yesterday that the reason Sixteen Thirty wanted to exert control over these "independent" influencers was to keep them from talking about Gaza and Israel. The above report specifically says that, indeed, that's the issue Sixteen Thirty was most interested in controlling and censoring.

Related: It just gets worse and worse.