Don't kid yourself. People can and do disagree, but they doesn't preclude the fact that astroturfing absolutely does happen as well, and it's absolutely a problem.

>but they doesn't preclude the fact that astroturfing absolutely does happen as well, and it's absolutely a problem.

Occam's razor. What is more likely :

A. This normal person on the internet disagrees with me.

B. There is a multinational conspiracy to control the narrative on topic X and in reality everyone universally agrees with me that topic X is a bad thing.

Your phrasing makes this quite unbalanced.

How about

B. Huge conglomerate with huge advertising budget uses some of that money on new innovative grass-roots advertising strategy (which is not illegal and can be very effective especially compared to online ads).

You are hopeless.

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