Actually, that's a lie of omission.
In this case, what I think is also happening is that on MN, where posts are ordered by time of posting, astroturfers are putting in zero effort, perhaps because they are paid on a piecework system. Or possibly impact. I have spotted some interesting new usernames recently.
Not all of them. I can see and name people on MN who have genuine sincere beliefs. I may disagree with them but I respect them and their right to disagree with me. But we do have new posters posting very little and a couple of unfortunates who put ages in to long posts that would have fitted in better on reddit with its upvote system
To be fair, I was paid to back Cummings and had no oversight, I would be operating across multiple platforms and I wouldn't be working very hard on each post on MN. It would be about churning them out here. It's not as easy as it looks to convincingly argue a point of view you don't hold and it takes a lot of work for mere typing, bit like writing a novel. Much more time-effective to vaguely smear based on rumours from posts on twitter you don't cite, and less upsetting when your work is buried in the depths of page 24.
As it is, MN is my online home, and I am engaged in the thread, so I will spend ten minutes ferreting out links. I may be a fool, but I'm a sincere fool.