@noyes @sepdroid @acdha @bluejekyll @Npars01
No?
Who would be paying them? And why? How much would they be being paid? How would the paid agitators get access to local information in all of the neighbourhoods? A paid agitator could only influence people in that local neighbourhood, so the scaling opportunity is necessarily limited. So how much would an influence operation cost?
Very different than Twitter trolls, that amplify national news.
Not saying this never happens, just unlikely.