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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.
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j0n4s54351y@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.
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j0n4s54351yhttps://reddit.com/r/Superstonk/...
There is more 💀 see the image in the post, it contains the text above and much more -
j0n4s54351yOkay 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 -
j0n4s54351yThanks you send me down a rabbit hole, currently reading Microsoft Windows evangelism stuff pre 2000
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j0n4s54351yMeanwhile US government in 2012 did use trolling as a cointel tactic
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@aviophile all I had was an image. It was webp too. So I had to use online converter to turn into jpg.
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@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.
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j0n4s54351yThis page is perfect to loop into a "why microsoft bad" rabbithole
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j0n4s54351y@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."
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Note that there are likely multiple actors that use these tactics. Both the governments of various countries and smaller entities too.
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Something to look out for. Apparently this is used on reddit and other platforms. Kinda wild that it is so refined.
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