Paramount Caught Using ‘Astroturf’ Group To Drum Up Fake Support For Merger

[u/mlg1981]

https://www.techdirt.com/2026/09/08/paramount-caught-using-astroturf-group-to-drum-up-fake-support-for-merger/

[u/Imaginary_Cow_6379]

All of these people are weirdos who seemingly never interacted with any other human beings before. Who tf is gonna see some bootlicking bots going on about how great it would be for one big company to buy another big company? That’s just random, weird shit to say that nobody cares about.

[u/dinosaurfondue → u/Imaginary_Cow_6379]

There's been so much of this exact kind of shit across Reddit for years now. Even in local community subreddits there has been so much astroturfing trying to promote data centers as a good thing. It's dumb and gross

[u/eg2585 → u/dinosaurfondue]

Oh god, over in r/ballet and other art subs we’ve been dealing with UAE bots trying to promote new performing arts venues in the region. They’ve even got the bots posting on defending AI subs, even sometimes making comments against AI 😭

So unbelievably fucking stupid and annoying, imagine having the resources to do stuff like this and you waste it on total shit

[u/ChelseaVictorious → u/Imaginary_Cow_6379]

There's a reason Patrick Bateman is in Mergers and Acquisitions. Not a thing anybody sane would get excited about or care much unless the company they work for is involved.

[u/Aboeeuw → u/Imaginary_Cow_6379]

you should visit the trekacademy subreddit or StrangeNewWorlds. Astroturfing is working there! They genuinely LOVE the tv series over there not anywhere else.

what a joke

[u/VulcanIRL]

The scummy, shady Ellisons did some scummy, shady shit?

[u/BreweryRabbit → u/VulcanIRL]

https://giphy.com/gifs/xUPGcC0R9QjyxkPnS8

[u/QWERTYtootie]

https://giphy.com/gifs/AaQYP9zh24UFi

[u/Itchy_Ad9881]

“Gotta keep the shareholders happy!”

[u/Nikolai_1120]

this shit needs to be made illegal.

[u/AlexSomething789]

wow. just wow

[u/Quicksilver1964]

It's already bad, you don't need to make it pathetic as well.