Before, it was fairly easy, use a famous celebrity, movie star, musician, or Sports player as a plant. Get them to say some tag lines, win over the audience through their skill or acting, and have them play roles to get the discussion moving towards the agenda.
Nowadays, with decentralized social media accounts, everyone wants to be a famous influencer or get that monetization bread on Twitch, Youtube, Tiktok or other platforms.

No longer are the mocking birds focused solely on big plants, no, they have to cultivate small micro influencer plants. Can’t just aim for big stars and News Anchors.
Especially when there are reports of News Anchors that are being replaced with AI;

This includes streamers and youtubers, their humble beginnings could very will just be a Psy op.
And the best part is, they may be favored by the algorithms, and not even know they’re a plant, until they’re presented with a deal that compromises them.
Anyone know’s anything about that Mr. Beast Fella, knows that the FBI is looking for his ass and he’s got some allegation on some chomo shit in his discord. In fact, people are speculating that he did a challenge to hide from the FBI as a video, in order to hide the fact that he might actually be hiding from the FBI in real life.

Chances are, though, the FBI is probably in on it too.
So invest in plants
It might not be the government, it might be big media, some other interest group. But it’s well worth the time and money to invest and cultivate your very own industry plant to sway public opinion.
Maybe you’ll get them to say stuff about the war in middle east.
Or maybe one day, you’ll buy out UFC and have Dana White and Joe Rogan be on a specific side of specific events.
Who knows.
The World’s a Stage, and some people forget their roles very well.
I imagine
In the far future, we’ll have AI chat bots disguised as human beings. No longer do they have to lobotomize an actual person, they’ll just go straight for the bot to convey and control information. Hell, your AI girlfriend or Waifu is next. Terminator Lore, here we go.

Whose to say that reality isn’t already a fabrication of the matrix and cloned robots? What, you think any of this is real? This shoddy trick of smoke and mirrors? Ha, what a glorifying bet to place.
In Closing,
Every body has a price.
Just, try not to sell yourself short.
This is the digital age of informational warfare, where the smoke coming from the machines lasts longer than the post truth being transmitted and rewritten by ones and zeros blipping through cyber time-space.
It’s an inevitable stage in our progress or ‘evolution’. I’m somewhat keen to how long we can make it last, while keeping it fun and entertaining. Emphasis on ‘Fun’ and ‘Entertaining’.
*Not Valid Financial, Legal, Life, or Any Advice