I've long thought _everything_ is already like this.

Does anyone remember the FTC "comments" about net neutrality? And how completely made up it all was?

It must be that everything is like this nowadays.

This goes back far, and I’ve even seen what appear to be shills for random B-list celebrities. Add SEO business as usual, political campaigns, international influence and the SnR is just radio static.

Absolutely, billions (or trillions) of dollars of value and the future of the parties and our trade relations are at stake.

For Paramount, I'd imagine they have no choice but to do this. It would be naive to think its opponents aren't astro-turfing the other side.

With the shoehorning of certain topics into absolutely every conversation on every platform... agree.

I was literally just ranting about this yesterday regarding a reddit thread where the astroturfing was so obviojs and it is frustrating to see, because a large chunk of the population is in fact influenced by it.