[anon2020dot00]

Why is this being pushed multiple times on Reddit and on Hacker News? Seems like a marketing campaign for clout.

[pvg]

Please don't post insinuations about astroturfing, shilling, bots, brigading, foreign agents and the like. It degrades discussion and is usually mistaken. If you're worried about abuse, email [e-mail] and we'll look at the data.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

[lotsofpulp]

Anytime I see celebrity name, I assume marketing campaign. Reddit is simply unusable, everything is an ad outside of posts on technical topics.

[a4isms]

As was said fondly of computer magazines during the era when they were the size of telephone books and you could shake a rainforest's worth of inserts out of them:

> Everything is an advertisement, and some of it is clearly marked as such.