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# Inside the Pro-AI Dark Money Recruitment Machine
- URL: https://adjacent.media/signals/inside-the-pro-ai-dark-money-recruitment-machine/
- Published: 2026-05-04T23:05:56.000Z
- Updated: 2026-05-04T23:05:56.000Z
- Description: A journalist’s firsthand account of being targeted by well-funded advocacy groups shows how AI industry money is building grassroots-appearing support infrastructure, complete with recruitment tactics and messaging discipline.
- Author: Jonathan Greene
- Tags: #signal, theme-culture, regulation/policy, media

Source: [User Mag](https://open.substack.com/pub/taylorlorenz/p/a-pro-ai-dark-money-group-tried-to-recruit-me)

A journalist's firsthand account of being targeted by well-funded advocacy groups shows how AI industry money is building grassroots-appearing support infrastructure, complete with recruitment tactics and messaging discipline. The groups identify credible voices, offer platforms and resources, and coordinate messaging through shared funding. The approach mirrors Big Tech's playbook for platform deregulation, now applied to AI policy—and it's moving fast enough that individual reporters are being systematically approached.