In an attempt to downplay the number of views Tucker Carlson and Donald Trump's interview, did the Deep State demonstrate the manipulation of clicks any website receives?

Would this be a time saving device to have click farms move fast to create a narrative desired to manipulate the people?

Here is a quote for an article found on the Wrap website, admonishing the number of clicks for Trump being interviewed by Tucker Carlson, 

"In other words, a view is counted even if you didn’t actively look at the post (formerly known as “tweets” before Elon Musk changed the site’s name to X) even if all it did was cross your screen while you were scrolling. Which by the way is a very likely occurrence on X’s algorithmic “For You” tab… especially if that tweet features content by users Twitter owner Elon Musk personally wants to boost.

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https://www.thewrap.com/trump-tucker-carlson-interview-100-million-...