Mamdani Hosts Influencer Summit, Sidestepping Legacy Media

A friendly summit at New York’s City Hall with digital content creators and social media stars symbolized the new mayor’s attitude toward the changing news media.

It was a standard-issue tour of New York’s City Hall, although the docent seemed smoother, and hipper, than most.

“This here is George Washington’s desk,” Mayor Zohran Mamdani said as he showed a gaggle of excited influencers around his new offices on Wednesday afternoon, the glare from their lofted smartphones reflecting off his suit. “And if you saw the previous mayor’s interview with Ziwe,” he added, “that took place right here.”

The ring lights glowed.