You would think so, however due to the size of the web and to lesser extend the compartmentalisation, you really need a lot of manpower (well or bot power if you have bots that pass Turing's test) to do any campaighns that actually change public opinion.
Smaller attacks however can and most likely do happen - the attacks that create popular myths/conspiracies (not that such won't come into being by themselves) and thus affect target groops (this tactic works especially well due to compartmentalisation, especially should the target group be fractured/radicalised).
In a way - this -is- the future of informational warfare (in my opinion), as majority of humans are incapable of processing all the excessive ammounts of information on the internet rationally in the time they have and thus tend to use information from social/mass media.
But, as I have said, you need the numbers. Now, immagine PLA getting 100k people to do the job and post 72 hours/week. That would give them (my guess) appox 2,5m equivalent posting group, which would allow to penetrate target country's user base in a significant way (ie with the UK population of ~68m you could expect to deliver a 1/15 proportion of posters, allowing total survalence of local posters (in the totalitarian states proportion of state security agents is between 1/15 to 1/10) and to exert influence in any given matter).
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