Is it time to regulate social media influencers?

Image promoting the ill-fated Fyre Festival

By Mark Schaefer

Social media influencers have been under the microscope, and deservedly so. A couple of recent headlines:

• The disastrous Fyre Festival has been exposed in the press and two film documentaries. Although the organizers committed fraud in multiple ways, it also served as a lightning rod for the super-model influencers who promoted the event…