Regarding the influence part of their argument:

Since very large swaths of media, advertisement, and influencing groups are multinational, should it be said that there is foreign influence on every action we take?

Are they saying people do not have the ability to think for themselves at all?

Maybe our future is to take every leader to court from now on for colluding with foreign interests.

It seems to be obvious to me, but this has all been so ridiculous, and the knee-jerk reactions of formerly respected companies are going to hurt them. Conflating ideas and concepts, what a world. Nothing new under the sun…