Been lurking this blog for awhile. These guys you’re calling promoters are called influencers in Korea. This fucked up system of influencing has been around for years in Korea used by politicians and businesses and now it is catching up here in US. These few persons uses many ID to gain trust then influence readers with false information for their gains and their owners gains. This is how the previous Korean president got removed from the office and now how QAnon has so much control over Americans and US politic. If group of about 10 influencers can influence whole Korea, it will only takes one or two to influence Eccie. Since, these influencer are operated by Korean Spas and Agencies, I am pretty sure setup is similar as in Korea. They are in a small room or an office with multiple computers or mobile devices with multiple IDs logged in. Every computers have its own VPN to make them appear to be logged in from different locations. If they go little high tech setup, they can have a hardware network that can hide locations. This is how hackers operate, also. One hacker or influencer can be operate as multiple persons. You have to be state or fed IT level to see this operation and I doubt local LE or eccie has that kind capability to see what’s going on.
The sophistication of the operation is depend on how much money is involved since many tools are out there. With hundreds and thousands dollars involved with these Korean spas and agencies. I am sure they have no problem investing money in these operations or hire someone who has very basic internet knowledge with ill intentions.
These influencer are protected by 1st amendment but site operators are not. Site operators can be liable for letting false information influence readers. LE can go after influencers in different way with charges but too much work for little bust unless it can lead to spa bust. Since spa and and influencers operate separate as separate entities at separate locations, it’s not easy to link two.
These protection of influencers makes them dangerous to this little blog community and our market. Without any liability on them, they have control powers to shut down businesses and control the market.