Soros-Funded Dark Money Group:

Soros-Funded Dark Money Group Secretly Paying Democrat Influencers To Shape Gen Z Politics

Jason Curtis Anderson

When Taylor Lorenz breaks a story on Democrat dark money, you know something strange is happening. Lorenz, who has made a career as the poster child for progressive social media culture, finally turned her reporting lens onto her own side. And what she uncovered in Wired is pretty dark: a secret program bankrolled by one of the largest Democrat dark money machines in America, designed to quietly pay off dozens of high-profile influencers to steer young voters toward the left.

The story centers around the Sixteen Thirty Fund, one of the crown jewels of Arabella Advisors' dark money empire. According to public filings, this fund has been showered with staggering sums from progressive megadonors:

• $257.1 million from the New Venture Fund

• $64 million from the Open Societies Action Fund 

• $20.2 million from the Hopewell Fund

• $13 million from the North Fund

• $5.6 million from Tides Advocacy

A spreadsheet posted by DataRepublican on X bluntly spelled it out: "That 'dark money' group, Sixteen Thirty Fund, is Arabella Advisors and is pure Open Society passthrough."

And this time, the pipeline wasn't just about elections, protests, or legislation—it was about directly paying the online voices that shape the political worldview of America's youngest voters.

The project was blandly branded the "Chorus Creator Incubator Program." According to Lorenz, more than 90 influencers were expected to join. The New York Post confirmed some of the names tied to the program:

This was no casual networking group. WIRED reported that contracts explicitly barred creators from admitting they were being paid, revealing their funders, or even acknowledging the program's existence, operating like a top-secret mission by an intelligence agency. Breaking the silence could mean expulsion—and the loss of thousands in monthly income.

The fine print was even darker. One clause gave Chorus the right to order creators to delete content produced at its events. Another required influencers to route any political dealings through Chorus itself, effectively turning the nonprofit into a shadow PR firm that stood between Democrat politicians and their own online supporters. In fundraising pitches, Chorus bragged that its creators collectively commanded 40 million followers and more than 100 million weekly views.

If you've ever wondered why so much progressive content online feels eerily uniform, this is why. It's not organic at all, it's just another arm of the machine.

That's the real story here: while many Americans are scratching their heads at the state of our politics, wondering why crime rises as prosecutors look away, why borders stay open, why drug decriminalization spreads despite chaos, the answer often traces back to a single man and his bank account. George Soros already bankrolls district attorney races, radical criminal justice reforms, immigration lobbying, "racial justice" organizations, and massive street protests. Now we learn he's also bankrolling the influencers who interpret those same issues for the youngest, most impressionable slice of the electorate.

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