Category:Manufactured consensus

Claims built to look like many people independently reaching the same conclusion, when they were not.

Distinct from Category:Suspected synthetic: there are people behind these, and that is what makes them harder. A machine writing on its own leaves a texture you can learn. A hundred paid or persuaded human beings leave the texture of a hundred human beings, because that is what they are.

See Iron Law of Cults for why every organisation large enough to have an inner circle eventually produces this without anyone deciding to.