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The use of paid crowds to shape public opinion and influence policy debates, including instances of private-publicity firms supplying actors to corporate clients and governments using financial levers to control media coverage.
Documented cases in which paid crowds were used to influence political events center largely on a commercial firm, , whose founder has acknowledged selling staged supporters and whose services have be...
Documented instances of paid crowds being used to shape public hearings and media narratives range from private-publicity firms supplying actors to corporate clients to subtle state tactics that shape...