I'm not sure it's relevant to this topic, but in my unqualified opinion [irrelevant, Tick, unqualified, Tick, .. "read on!"] the matter of stealthily paying peo

I'm not sure it's relevant to this topic, but in my unqualified opinion [irrelevant, Tick, unqualified, Tick, .. "read on!"] the matter of stealthily paying people/teams from other countries (or not) to swing the weight of social media discourse in an orchestrated and directed manner, from FB to Reddit and beyond - or 'astroturfing' as I guess it's known - and particularly during critical time periods e.g. the month prior to elections, is probably a pretty big deal, a meaningful bias. [vague metric, Tick...] If you, or the backroom funding associate of a political party, can buy ten t-shirts from another country for the same cost as one in your own, then why not the same for Reddit posts or FB engagement? I'm glad some measures are being taken and attention paid to the matter of significant-scale political interference via the worlds relatively new social media vector, but there are a lot of holes in this dam, and I think we'll not be hearing the end of these issues for some time yet.