Does anybody have any recommended marketing firms for these campaigns, aside from Cat@Net mentioned in this article? It has been incredibly hard for me to google, and any PR agency I've worked with isn't equipped to do it. Software firms have been decent but are still developing everything from scratch. They don't have automated ways to manage many profiles at once, so you end up paying for that and then still having…
This is basically PR and propaganda. Any companies you find that specialize in social media will probably have a process, and perhaps software systems, to manage this. These companies are doing what they've always done: influencing public opinion. My bugbear here is that they're now doing so without the need to slap their name on endorsements they're making for some private or political interest.
I am using this thread as a suggested topic to get recommendations on the topic.