No idea about paid posters on Mumsnet, but it’s not that crazy.
I’m on Twitter, which I know is a cesspit, but the last couple of days some things have occurred which strongly suggest the platform is being manipulated.
The hashtags “DominicCummings” “Dominic” and “Cummings” never made it to trending status. Misspelt versions of all those hashtags did make it onto the list. There is no way this was not deliberate, and the suggestions made that the surname was the cause do not hold up as the hashtag without it was absent too.
And for the first time ever on my timeline, three of those defensive statements by senior government figures appeared high on my timeline. That despite the fact I follow none of them, only one or two people in my network has liked them, and I follow very few political people in general.
If they are manipulating Twitter, and Cummings himself instigated an illegal Facebook campaign attached to “Leave” then I think we have to assume other influential platforms will also be targeted.