Yes. Absolutely. That’s literally what they do. Their job is to find out how to create psy-ops, manipulate, confuse, subvert and game systems - hiding behind a veil of “top experts in their fields figuring out big problems”, except the big problem is you voting for your actual interests.
It’s a very long standing tradition in the US for instance to rely on think tanks behind closed doors to figure out how to game the system… mostly from republicans… because republicans is partly a fascist party, thanks to the stupidity of a two-party system.
I mean a massive ass party that gets pelted with money by wealthy donors? They invest that money.