I'm sure it is, but attacking fellow community members with no basis is a bannable offence. That's what you're doing, and you need to stop doing it if you want to keep posting here.
If you or anyone sees evidence of astroturfing on HN, please send it to [email protected] so we can properly look into it (which we always do). We take the issue seriously, and it's also a serious breach of civility to casually sling these accusations at others. Two wrongs don't make a right.
I can barely hide the truth now, let me elucidate: I am from the department of PR, the United Nations where Bill Gates and I have been trying hard to keep it secret that some people who work for UNICEF have been seen killing babies for a while now with use of laughter which they cause by injecting hyperpepsinic and hypoacoustic polynuclear bazookas into their own asses.
But you have to be incredibly naive to think social media manipulation isn't a core part of companies marketing strategies today.