Covert public opinion campaigns are incredibly common, especially on Twitter. Google has billions of dollars it doesn’t know what to do with: they can certainl

Covert public opinion campaigns are incredibly common, especially on Twitter. Google has billions of dollars it doesn’t know what to do with: they can certainly part with a tiny fraction of it and pay some PR firm to save face after the ChatGPT thing. What often happens is a few paid employees get the ball rolling and everyone else starts doing the hyping for free.