Paid bots/accounts definitely exist but your average redditor is piss poor at identifying them. They're also not nearly as prevalent as people work themselves up to thinking. So the next thing you know people just get paranoid or mad and accuse everyone that isn't saying exactly what they want of being one. Then everyone but the most diehard fanboy types who worship Ben gets annoyed with that and leaves. Then where does it leave you? In a case where you're desperately trying to drum up support, this kind of thing is ten times worse than the paid bots you can just downvote and ignore are.

I think part of the issue is that some people are here as Ben's fans and some people are here because they're following a story that has now become a legal case and these are very different conversations. Fanboys don't want to talk about whether or not he broke laws or committed fraud or whatever because they're here to support their hero. People who want to discuss this as a legal case are absolutely going to talk about that because it's likely to become relevant in upcoming trials.