Something to look out for. Apparently this is used on reddit and other platforms. Kinda wild that it is so refined.

Sorry that devrant made it fuzzy.

These techniques are very straightforward and quite old, some of them are adopted from the famous saboteur manual from WWII. I'd rather call it a taxonomy of online disinformation campaigns than a guide.

Couldn’t you copy and paste the text man. How is anyone reading this on phone?

Wtf, where is this from and why?

@aviophile I did, but it was a PITA, I saved it to the gallery and could rotate my phone to landscape mode to read it a bit better.

https://reddit.com/r/Superstonk/...

There is more 💀 see the image in the post, it contains the text above and much more

Ah, in text form
https://reddit.com/r/Superstonk/...

Okay nvm, found the seemingly OG from 2012
https://cryptome.org/2012/07/...

It's not OG, but it is the last surviving source I could find

Thanks you send me down a rabbit hole, currently reading Microsoft Windows evangelism stuff pre 2000

Meanwhile US government in 2012 did use trolling as a cointel tactic
https://wired.com/2012/07/...

@aviophile all I had was an image. It was webp too. So I had to use online converter to turn into jpg.

@j0n4s saw it in r/conspiracy . They were talking about seeing these tactics constantly. Where else would you find such a thing. That is where I found the CIA saboteur stuff too.

This page is perfect to loop into a "why microsoft bad" rabbithole
https://antitrust.slated.org/

@j0n4s Bill Gates is way worse than Microsoft ever was. IMHO

@Demolishun
Well...

"This left Gates and Allen without a source of unpaid computing resources. Therefore Allen went over to the University
of Washington and began using a Xerox computer by pretending to be a graduate student. Gates soon followed, and
this went on until they were caught and removed from the campus."

https://antitrust.slated.org/www.va...

The real shock is that you're surprised.

ain't nobody got time for that

(reddit mods are another species)

Note that there are likely multiple actors that use these tactics. Both the governments of various countries and smaller entities too.

@j0n4s keeping it real!