Stumbled onto my county's subreddit (Baltimore County) just to see what was up and God damn

>clearly paid-for and astroturfed anti-Tesla protest posts that have hundreds of comments and sometimes THOUSANDS of upvotes, easily dwarfing the amount of actual normal discourse
>literal baseless accusations of a pretty good taco place and they dogpile their Yelp page
>anyone calling out weirdness has their post deleted by moderator and told to "not be a jerk" as per the "rules"

The absolute state of the state of Maryland