Overview
- A bipartisan group of House members introduced the Foreign Propaganda Disclosure Act, which they filed Monday and which is sponsored by Reps. Anna Paulina Luna, Vicente Gonzalez, Derrick Van Orden and Jared Moskowitz.
- The bill would amend the Foreign Agents Registration Act to add social media influencers to the legal definition of “publicity agent” and require anyone with a monetized account to disclose and register when paid by a foreign government.
- Rep. Luna told reporters she has taken briefings from government agencies, said she heard about payments occurring “on the back end,” and claimed she has seen contracts reaching into the millions, though those individual contracts have not been publicly released.
- Sponsors say the measure has cross‑party support and expect House leadership to back it, but they also warned they could use a discharge petition to force floor action if leaders do not advance the bill.
- The push follows 2025 prosecutions tied to a Russia‑linked media company and highlights thorny questions about enforcement, free speech limits, and how regulators would track payments across a large influencer economy that includes millions of monetized accounts.