[throwaway743]

On top of it, the US military and law enforcement agencies use sockpuppet accounts.

Don't get me wrong, I don't agree with any state actors manipulating public perception out of their own interests. Just agreeing that yeah the US pulls quite some bs too

https://www.techdirt.com/2011/03/18/us-military-kicks-off-pl...

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2019/04/facebook-must-take-the...

[h2odragon]

Why shouldn't governments have equal access to the tools of advertising and bullshit dissemination that citizens and corporations do? Ours and theirs.

The problem would be when thy have unequal access, wouldn't it? Them or anybody, really...