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>Not working for governments, of course

Why? That's pretty naive.

Do you have any examples of Western governments doing this?

US government as the CIA: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_mockingbird

There does appear to be a couple US examples within the Wikipedia article for astroturfing:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astroturfing#Politics

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