[Der_Einzige]

Idk - I think manufacturing consent may be easier rather than harder these days. The fact that it's now realistic to accuse people of being a bot (GPT-3) means that elites could just deploy large numbers of language models fine tuned and prompted correctly to AstroTurf and manufactur consent "from the ground up".

[klyrs]

It's not even hypothetical; governments can and do fund astroturfers. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27368214