The creepy thing is that it's more than just shills. You can confront a shill. Information can be targeted to individual and to groups of people through multipl

The creepy thing is that it's more than just shills. You can confront a shill. Information can be targeted to individual and to groups of people through multiple fronts in tandem with word of mouth. It wouldn't be a problem except that you can create consensus with the appearance of consensus [1]. If it achieves geopolitical policy goals or helps the bottom line, why wouldn't you? [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asch_conformity_experiments http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asch_conformity_experiments