OpenSecrets in the News

See our media citations from outlets around the nation this week:

Bots and Fake Accounts Push China’s Vision of Winter Olympic Wonderland (The New York Times)
Under the contract, first reported by the research group OpenSecrets, the company has been promoting the Games by recruiting “social media stars” to post on Instagram, YouTube and TikTok, the company’s founder, Vipinder Jaswal, said in a telephone interview.

As the Fed considers minting the first digital dollar, it is tapping experts from a crypto company with a stake in the outcome (The Washington Post)
The industry spent $7.1 million on lobbying in 2021, with $5 million of that sum landing in the second half of the year, according to an analysis by OpenSecrets. That was a dramatic leap from the $2 million the sector spent the previous year. 

Wealthy candidates pour millions into 2022 campaigns (CNN)
“While money doesn’t buy outcomes, it certainly buys advertisements, and to the first consumer of those advertisements, they don’t know who’s paying for the ad,” said Sarah Bryner, a strategist at the watchdog group OpenSecrets.