I recently did my part by increasing my Steem holdings in my crypto portfolio, (and powered up of course).

As for the flagging problem. Yes this appears to be funded by outsiders with big pockets that are using it as an attack vector against the steemit platform. i. e. big pharma, big corporate backed AstroTurf etc.

One possible solution is to decrease the effect that a flag has on reputation greatly and to balance it with upvotes. For example, at present it appears that a single "flag" can carry more weight than several upvotes, even when steem power is considered. I would more balance them.

Of course, I believe all of this would require another hardfork.