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This is usually how it plays out:
>politicians make spicy soundbites
>online influencers who meet with lawmakers loudspeaker those soundbites to manufacture consensus
>their viewership takes that consensus as real using it to beat others down with and silence any opposition
This is where your shells come in.
>NGOs that are paid stipend donations off a party's payroll start organizing around influencers
>usually a lesser used NGO does this with others circling wagons around it
>politicians join in to make appearances of support and foment action or outright violence (Maxine Waters in LA)
>keep spreading word in hopes protests will go viral
>lie about or obfuscate crowd sizes when they don't pan out while plastering the big ones across the airwaves
It's pretty simple to do when you have money to blow.