It's not just comments - the ability to drown out other views applies to actual news articles too. We saw back in 2009 with the Time Person of the Year campaign

It's not just comments - the ability to drown out other views applies to actual news articles too. We saw back in 2009 with the Time Person of the Year campaign how easy it was for coordinated groups to drown out the public (https://techcrunch.com/2009/04/21/4chan-takes-over-the-time-100/ https://techcrunch.com/2009/04/21/4chan-takes-over-the-time-...). As legitimate news organizations increasingly use analytics as part of their decision processes, that unsolved vulnerability presents an opportunity for click farms to drive traffic to articles and indirectly manipulate the production and placement of actual articles as well =/