Earlier quoted context omitted.
The point is whether canned responses came from a "organic" groundswell of concerned citizen or a handful of astroturfers.
Which doesn't make much sense, because the arguments are used in the decision making process, not the number of comments. This wasn't some kind of vote where you could stuff the ballot box, this was somewhere that you could flag items of concern. We all know that anyone could fake an IP address, as well. It would take little thought to spam a bunch of nonsense through a random proxy via a script. But, just like every…
....swallows lump in throat *
Umm Trump was right, and they were complicit in proliferating fake news