I’m with you.

Add:

• "crisis is coming, you will absolutely need product x, even though you barely use it, because it will soon disappear from the shelves"
• people overbuy product x
• price inflation, adjacent products are affected too
• long lines and chaos in otherwise dull markets
• BAM! it turns out the shortage was created purely by scare-tactic guerilla marketing

And it involves:

• “journalists” produce fear, scare, hate, fake news
• they never get gallows, even though their lying, toxic language actually KILLS people