There was a story on HN a couple of weeks ago where the article mentioned China actively having some number of millions of shills/bots/ai/etc which they use to

There was a story on HN a couple of weeks ago where the article mentioned China actively having some number of millions of shills/bots/ai/etc which they use to carefully manipulate public opinion within the Chinese internet. Do people really not believe that some percentage of those resources, and resources from other countries as well, aren't being used to manipulate the population of rival countries via the internet as well? I firmly believe we're already actively deep in a cold war, where countries are trying to take down other countries, without firing a single shot, by using the internet (among other forums) to convince citizens in rival countries to believe in ideas and to act in ways that will in the end harm their country and society. Now we're seeing people, usually younger / more internet connected people, all of the sudden have radically different ideas and belief systems than all the generations that came before them. Quite suspicious isn't it?