Original sentence: A couple of media sources noted that it was likely that many of Lebanon's approximately 500,000 Syrian guest workers participated in the rally.This Beirut rally called by Hizbollah dwarfed the earlier anti-Syrian events; CNN noted some news agencies estimated the crowd at 200,000 , the Associated Press news agency estimated that there were nearly 500,000 pro-Syrian protestors, while the New York Times and Los Angeles Times simply estimated "hundreds of thousands".This figure is disputed
Edited sentence: A couple of media sources noted that it was likely that many of Lebanon's approximately 500,000 Syrian guest workers participated in the rally or that some were even payed to attend the ralies.This Beirut rally called by Hizbollah was bigger than the earlier anti-Syrian events; CNN noted some news agencies estimated the crowd at 200,000 , the Associated Press news agency estimated that there were nearly 500,000 pro-Syrian protestors, while the New York Times and Los Angeles Times simply estimated "hundreds of thousands".This figure is disputed and most probably exagerated