The thing is, China is almost certainly doing this. It's just not nefarious. China does this to it's citizens all the time. It's trying to understand what they want and what they need to focus on. It's what China means when they say they are a democracy. They're listening to the population and trying to make changes based on the responses they get.
Of course we can reword this to make it nefarious. This is what they're talking about when they talk about the "social credit" score. Since posts will be reviewed by the CPC, it's easy to then extrapolate and say they're doing it to crackdown on dissidents. Or in this case, manipulate the voting.
But of course they're manipulating the voting. They don't believe what our politicians say anymore and are trying to directly converse with the people. They're hoping their tactics in China will work in convincing the population to stop being so negative about China and asking questions to know how to represent China better to the western population.
It reads like an AI fantasy because they're leaving out the important parts of why China is doing this to begin with.
If you're against China doing this, ask yourself this. How can you improve things if you don't ask questions to begin with?
And this is why USA is falling apart, no one is willing to question the narrative.