Media and entertainment used all the time for comms. Black Hats, White Hats, who knows.
Remember when a dropped In-N-Out burger wrapper made national news headlines? Then a month later photoshopped images of missing Ghislaine Maxwell at In-N-Out are published? Truth is stranger than fiction, but noticing makes us conspiracy theorists.
'You are watching a movie.'
Indeed.
https://nypost.com/2019/07/21/mysterious-untouched-in-n-out-burger-found-lying-on-queens-street/
https://www.vice.com/en/article/pajjwk/i-found-nycs-in-n-out-burger-and-solved-the-mystery-of-how-it-got-there
https://www.breitbart.com/the-media/2019/08/20/reports-epstein-partner-ghislaine-maxwells-in-n-out-photo-is-photoshopped/