Israel just used an app incentives people with gift cards till it attracted to much attention.

According to Mondoweiss, an email sent in March 2022 to the app’s users announced that the app will be shut down but that users should continue to interact with Act.IL’s content on its other social media platforms

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Act.IL

Most far right governments do stuff like this.

And I think usagm under trump is likely to start going overboard with it as well. They’ve mostly been focused on serving up propaganda overseas up till now.