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It's just basic economics. The amount of power and influence you can generate with a disinformation troll farm dramatically outweighs the cost. It's a high impact, low cost form of geopolitical influence. And it works incredibly well.
You make it sound like everyone should be doing it. We could also save a lot of money invested into courts and prisons if we just executed suspects the state deemed guilty.
Can we open the farm that convinces people to stop listening to farms?
No, only the farm that convinces people to listen to other farm(s). And those already exist, anyway :(