You will always know when a post has hit a little too close to home and has said more than Verizon wants you to know.
The employees paid to post disinformation are just an annoyance like that gnat that wants to fly up your nose while you're flipping a burger on the grill.
Then there is the downvote brigade. They will downvote every comment that is negative against Verizon as fast as they can. I have watched downvotes roll down the screen in real time across multiple posts that racked up four or five votes per post in less than a minute. As if somebody sent a text with a link asking for back up.
If the post is particularly accurate and informative the downvote brigade will flood both positive and negative posts with downloads. I saw one thread get annihilated with about 10+ downvotes per post within a short amount of time. If that's only one person, that's impressive.
If the post is uncomfortably accurate, which must have recently happened, the downvote brigade becomes the nonsense brigade. Trying to hide the posts under downvotes won't work. So suddenly the threads get overwhelmed with nonsensical posts that have no point and go nowhere. There is so much mess that you are more likely to avoid reading any posts in that thread.
Then tapping older safe threads with a nonsense post resorts the "active" so older posts get put at the top and the one they want to hide get slowly moved down the line. It's absolutely diabolical. Imagine if they put that much work and enthusiasm into making Verizon better.
Whenever I have dug in and found the thread with the most mess, I pick it apart and there's always at least one post with a legit and important message. And usually I start hearing that message in the news a few days or a week later.
Recognize the nonsense for what it is and use it to your advantage to stay informed.
Or not. You do you.