I suspect many nation-states do the fake influencer thing, especially the state of Israel, which was recently caught throwing $7000 each in cash to innumerable existing influencers if they would lie for them. I also strongly suspect these agencies use their almost unlimited budgets to seed hundreds of nutty and mutually contradictory conspiracy theories into our spaces to sow confusion, infighting, and to drive away the sane, rational, competent people we must attract.
