I hear conspiracy theorizing-types talk about how many shills there are online leaving comments and it just got me curious if there's any rational/evidence-based reason for thinking that this is really a thing? What makes people so confident they are dealing with "shills" and not just people who disagree with them? These views are fringe and controversial after all so I don't see why it couldn't just be normal and expected pushback...
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Word on the street used to be sent by 'tweet'......the carrier pigeon....a little bird told me.
As part of Operation Mockingbird, literally thousands of jobs were created in the form of 'influencers' of chatrooms, comment sections, etc. Creating websites and influencers....Youtube has conferences to groom them. You know, for success.
About creating a false narrative that everyone would repeat. Black bloggers are the cleanup crew, doing dirty work.
All methods utilized so to tag it as any one group or method is impossible.
It appears as 'grassroots' when it isn't.
Some shills 'know better' and some don't, but they all feel their actions are justified by a larger cause they share.
Add digital bots to the mix and you get chaos as planned.