This has been happening for quite some time. For example, a popular news item that is critical of Musk is published by many news organisations across the web. The item will then be submitted to HN by various users, sourced from various news organisation websites. Sometimes _each and every submission_ reporting the same story gets flagged. It would be helpful to see which users are flagging these submissions.
He uses bots (or some PR agencies) everywhere to promote his image, I see it personally on Facebook, on Reddit, but it is on all social media. This is how everyone think he is an engineer, a genius and turns even his failures (like hyperloop) as a successes.
I wouldn't be surprised that they would have few here too.
