Pretty much, yeah. People use the news to influence people all the time. It's basically a giant fucking brainwashing machine more than like, actual news.

Do you have a way I could make you the magical equivalent of a shareholder or like, the shadow CEO behind the boring human CEO? Key you in to whatever you need to sustain your powers in exchange for getting back the exact body of Shiv Roy from before she got sucked into a time loop and stabbed to death.