This story, posted already under the World Politics thread (Haaretz articles) and the Vulnerabilities thread (Guardian articles) has a Coronavirus angle as well! (I’ll link to the source page here…)
The “Team Jorge” group, run by an ex- special forces guy, Tal Hanan, runs an army of around 30,000 fake social media accounts using their Advanced Impact Media Solutions software (AIMS). It seems they were brought in to meddle when a lab got some bad press after being accused of being bad at their jobs:
In the UK, in Fall 2021, AIMS avatars took a hard line against the UK Health Safety Agency. The agency had launched an investigation into a laboratory accused of providing some 43,000 false negative Covid test results to its patients.