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To be fair, I think a good portion of those 'shills' were organic (no pun intended). To this day, a lot of the popular "anti-monsanto", "anti-gmo" groups (e.g.
by kfriede 9y ago
To be fair, I think a good portion of those 'shills' were organic (no pun intended). To this day, a lot of the popular "anti-monsanto", "anti-gmo" groups (e.g. David Avocado Wolfe) are pretty nutjob and have a large community of people who dislike them.
- wu-ikkyu 9y ago>lot of the popular "anti-monsanto", "anti-gmo" groups (e.g. David Avocado Wolfe) are pretty nutjob It's worth noting that having such groups is a commonly used counter intelligence tactic: create a loud and incoherent pseudo-strawman opposition to distract from those who are actually asking legitimate questions. An effective astroturf campaign calls for both pro-x and anti-x shills.
- nerpderp83 9y agoIf anyone was in a place to make a Strawman, it would be Monsanto.
- Laforet 9y agoSometime it feels like Monsanto is the strawman for the entire biotech industry.
- eip 9y ago> create a loud and incoherent pseudo-strawman opposition to distract from those who are actually asking legitimate questions. See flat earth as an obvious example of this.
- imcoconut 9y agoWow, i never considered this but it makes sense and i imagine is very effective. Do you know of any well documented cases of this (though by its nature, any case of this is probably not well documented)?
- wu-ikkyu 9y agohttps://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/COINTELPRO#Methods https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/COINTELPRO#Methods https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agent_provocateur https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agent_provocateur