Corporations do do it all the time. It's called the PR industry.
It used to mean placing positive stories in the trad media. Now it means placing positive stories in the trad media, and also using shills and bots to influence social media.
Nation states also do it. Is this story true, or is it manufactured?
Is the Bloomberg chip story true, or is it manufactured - maybe to demonstrate that the US can easily put market pressure on selected Chinese businesses?
(I don't actually know the answer to either of those questions. Worldwide, only a handful of people do.)
Cognitive violence and zero-trust media have become endemic. This is a problem for any democracy, because you can't have genuine democratic accountability system when mass media of all kinds are weaponised for political ends.
I kind of agree with your points, but how do you connect these points about mass media to comments supposedly submitted by private citizens to a government agency?
It used to mean placing positive stories in the trad media. Now it means placing positive stories in the trad media, and also using shills and bots to influence social media.
Nation states also do it. Is this story true, or is it manufactured?
https://medium.com/dfrlab/trolltracker-twitter-troll-farm-ar...
Is the Bloomberg chip story true, or is it manufactured - maybe to demonstrate that the US can easily put market pressure on selected Chinese businesses?
(I don't actually know the answer to either of those questions. Worldwide, only a handful of people do.)
Cognitive violence and zero-trust media have become endemic. This is a problem for any democracy, because you can't have genuine democratic accountability system when mass media of all kinds are weaponised for political ends.