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Resident alleges city social media used to promote mayor and raises potential ethics concerns
Summary
A resident told council the city's official social-media accounts have repurposed city content to promote the mayor and may have violated state ethics provisions; the resident urged the council to investigate and said some posts were corrected earlier the same day.
Josh Keck of Staun Road raised concerns Feb. 24 that Huntington’s official social-media accounts have increasingly promoted the mayor and that content from the mayor’s personal accounts and from a partisan page was reposted on official city channels.
Keck told council that city Facebook posted 722 times in 2024 with about 29 posts mentioning the mayor (roughly 4%), and that in…
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