The Max Blumenthal fan club want everyone to think Philip Cross is some sort of CIA bogeyman that controls Wikipedia. He's prolific, but far less influential than he's made out to be.
Craig Murray graphed his contributions here:
https://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2018/05/the-philip-c...
In fairness his views do seem to match up with Jimbo Wales (who is, as a good friend of Tony Blair/Gordon Brown, not exactly anti war). He might be an institutional construct but there's plenty of institutions other than the CIA he could be fronting.
It's also possible he's basically a sockpuppet for Jimmy Wales, judging by the way he lashes out on Twitter at people questioning who Philip Cross really is.
So he clearly is pretty influential.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests...
Not all the goons are influental, but he is (like most media figures), and their policies and practices align.
"Most likely theory"? What? The most likely theory is that he's convinced of his worldview. There are incredible amounts of people who are true believers of whatever they subscribe to. They're certainly not all paid, or we'd see much larger intelligence budgets everywhere.
The other relies on there being a person with a lot of time on his hands who generally believes what he reads in the Times and responds to provocation on Twitter, and George Galloway not jumping to the correct conclusion.