[ SECRET POST #2188 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2188 ⌋

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Comments

[kittenmommy]

You know, it never even occurred to me that some of them might be trolls/saboteurs. It makes sense, I have to admit.

[(Anonymous)]

It's been in the back of my mind ever since I read articles about the US government giving a number of internet Psyops the go-ahead.

[kittenmommy]

Well, if it's trolls who are trying to make marginalized people and their actual allies look like humorless, abusive, bullying assholes, they're doing a spectacular job of it!

[thene]

It's terrifyingly non-impossible.

Seeing as we're still talking here, I just chased up a few recent articles from memory, as examples of how this shit has played out in IRL activist groups that have fallen under scrutiny from government:

The Long Con: Anatomy of a Two-Year Undercover Sting and What It Has to Do with Law Enforcement’s Habit of Wasting Large Amounts of Money on Investigating People for Their Social Habits and Political Beliefs (this site carries small NSFW personal ads in the sidebars)

Undercover police officer unlawfully spied on climate activists, judges rule: Mark Kennedy was arguably an agent provocateur, says appeal verdict quashing Ratcliffe-on-Soar conspiracy convictions (From the UK: I've read better story articles about this same case, but tl;dr an undercover cop switched sides, got overinvolved in the environmental activism he was meant to be investigating, got a bunch of people arrested, and they got their convictions quashed).

Reclaim The Cyber Commons (About mass astroturfing organised by, variously, the Tea Party and the Chinese government.)

ETA, I opened this in a tab and then forgot to link it: How FBI Entrapment Is Inventing 'Terrorists' - and Letting Bad Guys Off the Hook

...So, yeah. I can't rule it out although I feel like it's an unlikely angle of interference. I mean. It's tumblr and everyone's 14 and trying to tell each other which words not to use and what to be mad about.

[(Anonymous)]

Thanks for the links, will read.

Re unlikely: Except for the fact that a few years back, the US gov had an unhealthy fascination with twitter, and how it might be good for inciting revolutions. They might be selecting platforms that don't require as much relationship-forming and in-depth conversation, so as to broadcast more of a signal.