They could rake in more profits than the cost of the studies. You heard it here first. They could, say, inflate the ratings for news programs about the scandals concerning other parties, and deflate those about their own party. The producers of TV news programs will more than happy to saturate the media with what they think is getting them great ratings. They might even drag out some wimpy presidential sex scandal long past the point most of the planet is sick of it.
Truth is stranger that fiction.
They come in rolls of 1200 and can be installed by the dozen in only a few seconds with a standard two-line pricing gun. They are constructed of multiple layers of paper, plastic, and metal foil. They are powered by an unmodulated radio signal transmitted by the secret agents tm . The signal is received by the device and re-radiated at its resonant frequency. The resonant frequency depends on a capacitor constructed of a layer of air between two layers of metal foil.