Mamdanis influencer army includes teachers, TikTokkers, a self-proclaimed dandy and some dont even live here

Meet the socialist network.Mayor Zohran Mamdani rode into Gracie Mansion on a social media wave — and he’s keeping his influencer friends close.A bombshell Columbia Journalism Review study found that Mamdani’s administration maintains a secret Signal chat with roughly 200 influencers, where the terminally online creators get the inside scoop — or marching orders — from City Hall.Here’s a look at four influencers that CJR confirmed to be in the covert chat, along with others who were part of a group that spawned it.Public school teacher Sari Beth Rosenberg — who also works as a digital content strategist for the American Federation of Teachers — touts that she educates about “history behind the headlines” to more than 420,000 followers across several social media platforms.Rosenberg, aka @saribethrose, is part of Mamdani’s group chat, telling CJR researchers that she views herself as providing information that’s no longer easily available as local news dwindles.“A lot of people are too busy to seek out news about New York City but they might follow my content or someone else’s, and might engage with it more, so that it’s going to pop up on their feed more,” she told the researchers.The outspoken educator, 51, on Wednesday posted an “EXCLUSIVE” interview with Mamdani and Schools Chancellor Kamar Samuels, giving them a platform to promote the admin’s one-year moratorium on generative AI in public schools.Nile Berry posts deep dives on the Big Apple’s future, real estate and economics to 109,000 followers on his @urbanexplained Instagram account.The influencer’s audience is primarily 25- to 40-year-old men who work in finance and real estate, the CJR study reported.Berry, 34, also received direct access to Mamdani, posting he met with the mayor to discuss the administration’s “Block by Block” housing plan to build 200,000 housing units in the city.But Berry claimed he’s not a mindless Mamdani booster, noting his criticis...