I think it is pretty widely accepted at this point that foreign actors regularly jump into online topics to fan flames and domestic distractions. Russia pays f

I think it is pretty widely accepted at this point that foreign actors regularly jump into online topics to fan flames and domestic distractions. Russia pays for massive botfarms doing... something. China funds massive social media investments into western markets for... something. The topics don't even have to be relevant to anything geopolitical. As an example, the East Palestine train derailment was a weeks old news story that the Chinese media pushed into social media as a response to their balloon being shot down: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-64633990 https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-64633990