No I don't think alefantis had a say so but I think he leveraged the identical techniques. I imagine he called up his old boyfriend to get help with the pizza gate mess. Then we got the PR firm hired to put on the 'Support Comet' supposedly community event, the flying monkeys on comment boards, the soft ball interviews on legacy media and lockstep print coverage with alefantis as victim. It was a fairly standard Brock Op.