In the West they are also called the "penny brigade".
In the west you have media in both the right & left. So people are presented with the black, white & grey sides of issues. However in Spore only the PAP side is presented & you have all these pretenders trying to do a snow job on the public.
So to be on the safe side one has to assume the worst of the PAP. This may appear to be paranoid & encourages all kinds of rumours & conspiacy theories but that's whats going to happen if the PAP insists on covering up, spreading half truths, wayang, ....