Engaging fake news

An opening for “Political Digital Account Coordinator” is being advertised online by downtown San Diego’s Bask Digital Media.

“You will work with our Campaign Directors and Account Managers to brainstorm engaging content, write copy for email and social media, research, and execute client deliverables,” says the employment notice. Job hopefuls must have “experience working on at least one Republican political campaign.”

The agency, which says it provides social media management, sets up micro websites, and handles digital reputation monitoring, is headed by Adam Stoll, onetime campaign honcho for ex–New York GOP governor George E. Pataki, in whose office Stoll’s wife Lisa Dewald Stoll was director of communications.

Adam Stoll later became a vice president for municipal bonds at Goldman Sachs, leaving that firm in 2010 to run L.A.’s Target Enterprises, a political media-buying outfit. In January, the New York Times reported that wealthy Manhattan real estate mogul Paul J. Massey Jr. had hired Stoll as part of his effort to challenge Democratic New York mayor Bill de Blasio’s reelection bid come this November. But two weeks ago, Massey dropped out of the race, saying the cost of unseating an incumbent was too great.