{"id":1027707,"date":"2026-08-10T08:58:53","date_gmt":"2026-08-10T03:28:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1027707"},"modified":"2026-08-10T09:55:06","modified_gmt":"2026-08-10T04:25:06","slug":"california-considers-fines-for-influencers-who-dont-disclose-political-ad-payments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/08\/10\/california-considers-fines-for-influencers-who-dont-disclose-political-ad-payments\/","title":{"rendered":"California considers fines for influencers who don&#8217;t disclose political ad payments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Weeks before voting ended in California&#8217;s primary for governor, Los Angeles-based influencer Shaka Smith took to Instagram to tell his more than 7,00,000 followers whom he was voting for and why. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Healthcare shouldn&#8217;t bankrupt you, housing should not feel impossible, polluters shouldn&#8217;t pass their bill to us and artists should not be replaced by AI,&#8221; Smith said. &#8220;That&#8217;s why I&#8217;m supporting Tom Steyer for governor.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Weeks before voting ended in California&#8217;s primary for governor, Los Angeles-based influencer Shaka Smith took to Instagram to tell his more than 7,00,000 followers whom he was voting for and why. &#8220;Healthcare shouldn&#8217;t bankrupt you, housing should not feel impossible, polluters shouldn&#8217;t pass their bill to us and artists should not be replaced by AI,&#8221; Smith said. &#8220;That&#8217;s why I&#8217;m supporting Tom Steyer for governor.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[83,4,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1027707","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-telegraph","category-newspapers","category-the-telegraph"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1027707","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1027707"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1027707\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1027729,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1027707\/revisions\/1027729"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1027707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1027707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1027707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}