Influence-for-hire

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Companies that engage in the influence-for-hire industry range from content farms to high-end public relations agencies. Traditionally influence operations have largely been confined to public sector actors like intelligence agencies, in the influence-for-hire industry the groups conduction the operations are private with commerce being their primary consideration.^[2] However many of the clients in the influence-for-hire industry are countries or countries acting through proxies.^[1] They are often located in countries with less expensive digital labor.^[3]