And France did both to Haiti!

Ah yes, the Adams Brothers.
Who astroturfed support for the US revolution by:
• Hiring gangs to fake riots.
• Forcing newspapers they owned to take a particular slant and penning fake letters to the paper pushing a pro-separatist stance.

Don’t forget that the reason most of the upper class wanted to separate is that a lot of them used what we now call wire fraud to get their wealth. They’d mail a London bank claiming to be some mining or logging company looking for funds, get the funds then move to a different colony and repeat. A number of the “intolerable acts” were aimed at them at the behest of London Bankers.