Mamdanis influencers rush to defend him provide insight into secret groups coordination with City Hall

Lefty influencers in the Mamdani administration’s secret group chat rushed to defend the mayor Thursday — happily admitting that they gladly parrot his talking points to their followers under the guise of news.One progressive, anti-Trump Instagram account with 1.1 million followers “Vote In Or Out” outed its ties to City Hall — as the creator bragged about how successful she’s been churning out the admin’s spin.“I genuinely do not know how such a small team manages to communicate with so many of us,” 48-year-old Brooklynite Lisa Chin Mollica, who runs the account, gushed to her followers. “It is a constant stream of information, events, policies,” she wrote, adding “and I am genuinely happy to do it.”Mollica said she has regular, often direct contact with City Hall’s media team, which supplies her with a “constant stream” of policy information, event notices, background and access.A description in the account’s bio claims to post “news” among other “perspectives” and even created a non-partisan, fact-checked voter guide during the 2020 election.But sandwiched in between a barrage of anti-Trump and anti-ICE messaging are hyper-local Mamdani administration talking points with captions that read like a press release from the mayor’s office.“New York City introduces its first comprehensive AI policy for public schools,” a caption on a Sept.2 post reads along with a clip of Hizzoner at his press conference announcing a moratorium on generative artificial intelligence for city students.Mollica, who said she has “never been paid” by the Mamdani team, described an outreach operation where City Hall employees — on taxpayer dime — contact her often, sometimes directly by text, to give “background and access” that helps her account reach New Yorkers with the administration’s preferred messaging.One user clapped back in the comments of Mollica’s post explaining she doesn’t do paid work for the Mamdani administr...