Thread by @RealGregBoulden

"Secret Payouts: Conservative PAC Bypasses Transparency on X"
@ConservativeOG lost their Organizational Verification and Exposed their Network
A long - 🧵Part 1 🧵

by: Greg Boulden

Polarizing and provocative social media influencer, @LauraLoomer , doxxed @sriramk, @DonaldTrump's pick for senior policy advisor for Artificial Intelligence on Christmas day. This post violated X’s policies and Loomer’s X verification badge was removed.

The spin began quickly as @ConservativeOG & affiliates realized their entire operation was compromised. Laura and the affiliates began a space on X to discuss on December 27th, blaming @elonmusk for censorship over immigration posts. This was a dishonest representation by all.

This lapse in journalism integrity exposed Conservative, an organization holding Loomer’s and at least 50 other influencer badges as their affiliate. They took to X and created an H1B narrative and distracted from the larger story, why did this organization and affiliates exist?

This led many to question how many influencers they had and what they were paid to do. Many looked for those who lost their verification status-names quickly emerged. @LauraLoomer was obvious but many others were not, such as @GavinWax.

Other accounts named via a space: @OwenShroyer1776 , @ChiefTrumpster, @CassandraRules, @isabellamoody_ , @jackunheard , and @rawsalerts. I discovered more in my circle, previous affiliates that ended their association and those rejected based on their impressions.

This led to an obvious question, who is @ConservativeOG and why do they have affiliates like @LauraLoomer , @IsabellaMDeLuca, and a “journalism” stable of influencers?

Conservative is owned by Jake Little, and co-founded by Gregory Disser. Their website redirects to a Carey Committee hybrid Super PAC (FEC Committee ID #: C00866707). The custodian of record shows Greg Disser as acting treasurer. Donations came from: ConservativeOfficial.com

And on the expenditures, money was funneled directly back to Conservative LLC.

In an election year, how did this PAC and others like it, influence messaging on social media platforms @X and @instagram? Democrat influencers like @harryjsisson were paid $13,000 by Democracy Defense Action in 2024, and previously were paid by @MeidasTouch.

MeidasTouch is another Carey Committee hybrid super PAC paying for democrat influence.

The conservative influencers linked to ConservativeOG have been critical of the payment for posts to accounts like Sisson while hypocritically facilitating the same culture.

According to those interviewed, @jackunheard was one of several accounts sending messages inviting large conservative influencers into the affiliate program. But who is behind the ConservativeOG posting and conversations? I reached out to Gregory Disser on LinkedIn for comment.

He declined to respond, and also removed his work experience showing Conservative after my message to him. I was surprised to see a DM request in my messages on X the day after contacting multiple affiliates.

@ThePrestonParra failed to realize that not only did he confirm I was directly over the target on this story, but he did not know that affiliates outed him earlier in the day as running the X account.

I decided to accept the request Preston sent me and responded.

Like a coward, @ThePrestonParra immediately blocked me from sending a follow-up. He did me a favor, I now knew they felt their payment to influencers to post content for them was a nothing burger. There is good money in being a paid influencer, many shared their rate.

In fact in messages shared with me by @SarahisCensored, a former affiliate and accomplished journalist, the payment was discussed when they were looking to bring her on board to advertise for a gambling profile. @IsabellaMDeLuca was named.

Now, let’s look at @Kalshi closer: "One can bet on politics, economics, crypto, weather, and more…"

The danger of a social engineering influence network running a PAC is already apparent. What if they had a hand in the betting markets? Could they influence bets with posts? Should an organization tied to a Hybrid Super PAC be involved in promoting gambling? @FEC @DOGE

I spoke with an affiliate who claimed to have been on with @ConservativeOG for a month. They told me they were in a room that gave recommendations on what they wanted posted - and their rate was $40 a post. They only reposted stories that aligned with their brand.

On @X, a “room” refers to a space for group conversations, which can be a group direct message or X Spaces. The ConservativeOG, like many other groups, used the group DM’s to create private text-based chat to plan, brainstorm, and offer their pushed stories and posts.

According to several affiliates, one of the room members was the profile, @JackUnheard. His role was getting the verified checks out to affiliates. This was based on the reach of the profile being offered an affiliate status, and their impressions each day.

In one case a potential affiliate was rejected when their impressions did not support what Conservative was looking for to promote their reach. The practice of promoting social media accounts is not something new to the founders of Conservative. Owner, Greg Little's background:

Coservative is intimately connected to Connect Social, one of many companies that help get your favorite influencer seen by the masses. Their website connectsocial.co states the following:

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