No evidence of it on here doesn't meant no evidence of using paid operatives to shape or otherwise manipulate the public - re: David Price and the Dieter Doneit-Henderson Oxycontin story:
http://torontoist.com/2010/10/rob_fords_team_created_a_fake_twitter_account_and_this_is_it/
AoD
From that article:
The Twitter account was the work of the deputy communications director of Rob Ford’s campaign, Fraser Macdonald, and was created with one purpose in mind: getting the whole recording of a conversation between Dieter Doneit-Henderson and the candidate, in which Ford promised the fibromyalgia-afflicted man that he would “fucking try to find” OxyContin for him.
Maybe he should have tried to get him some crack.
I've got to say, CowboyLogic, that I really don't think you're a paid operative. You don't operate like one (That said, they certainly do exist)