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How Covert Agents Infiltrate the Internet

As a strategy, state actors often create misdirection to discredit people who question their ops and false flag operations and maintain plausible deniability.

https://theintercept.com/2014/02/24/jtrig-manipulation/

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  • Ooooh right, @ziq@hexbear.net ban-hammer

  • In that top-level post the OP says it's a photoshop they made. In the subtext link, I like that Hexbear is pretty resilient against the tactics mentioned. We consistently sniff out wreckers/adventurists/judas goats. When one reveals themselves, there's no community effort to rally behind them.

    • I mean if someone gets banned as a wrecker and they weren't actually trying to be one, they can just make a new account and be less terrible. If they're capable of doing so.

      • There was this beautiful moment where FBI agents complained that it was hard to infiltrate anarchist groups because they couldn't bribe anyone and had to read theory. I think it's that latter part that makes coming back near-impossible for actual wreckers. If it's just someone with one bad opinion they can correct that, but even if someone hasn't actually read theory there's a bar for having that worldview. Then within that bar there's an overton window of what a revolutionary socialist would say and what a LARPer would say and it's ontologically clouded by their actual worldview. There have been somewhat successful splits like we had over veganism, but I don't think we would ever have the problems that a community like /r/antiwork has the same way /r/chapotraphouse didn't. Our whole subculture is bullying bullies and bullshitters.

  • Is this an accurate accounting of its origins? Radical Leftists Built Their Own Reddit After It Banned Them

    I don’t know how I never knew of Raddle until now, while Voat I remember clearly.

  • If you regularly have to make content joking about how you're totally-not-feds because other people call you feds all the time something is extremely wrong and it makes you deeply deeply suspicious to me.

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