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Well, JTRIG exists whether or not this article is real-- and it probably isn't real. There are people who do this for their full time job. Additionally, your di
by cryoshon 11y ago
Well, JTRIG exists whether or not this article is real-- and it probably isn't real. There are people who do this for their full time job. Additionally, your dismissal of "conspiracy" wholesale is troubling; conspiracy is merely another interpretation of reality that draws intense dislike because it questions the accepted story.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joint_Threat_Research_Intelligence_Group https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joint_Threat_Research_Intellig...
It's also undeniable that the government does try to disrupt dissenting groups, even if they are nonviolent. In the light of the modern version of this, it's hard to say exactly what movements failed due to internal disruption, and which failed due to not having popular appeal.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COINTELPRO https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COINTELPRO
- maze-le 11y agoKeep in mind that it is not always the government(s) using strategies like this. Political groups (left and right alike) do know about it, and use it, as well as the occasional 'troll for the lulz'. And there is the whole issue of corporate wikipedia-editing networks, if they exist, you can reasonably assume some shadowy businesses also do operations like that.
- cryoshon 11y agoI think that corporate PR constitutes a larger (maybe even the largest) source of deceit/propaganda like in the OP. It's no secret that on reddit there are a large corpus of Monsanto shills (people who sit around and respond to Monsanto-related topics to defuse critcicism).
- wooter 11y agoexcept they presumably pay for their own PR and don't have a monopoly of force, unlike the Gov.