Remember when correct the record basically took over politics on reddit? They had a budget of millions. I'm pretty sure those were real people, but no doubt they had tools to automatically up/downvote certain comments and articles, probably as well as tools to automatically generate responses. The loser admins were freaking out about the almost non existent Russian presence on reddit whilst correct the record was totally out in the open about controlling the narrative online, and those fuck tards never said a word about that. I should add, you can buy reddit accounts online. Buy enough and use some tools you could pretty easily control the narrative.