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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Why? Because we know its happening in some cases, like with monsanto.
https://www.wisnerbaum.com/blog/2017/may/monsanto-paid-internet-trolls-to-counter-bad-pub/
So the question is, why wouldnt people with billions or even millions of dollars do it?
If you want, it shouldnt be hard to find my thread in the r/novascotia subreddit about refrigerant poisoning, should show up with a google search. The mod there doesnt have some hidden agenda, he never deleted my posts.
https://www.reddit.com/r/NovaScotia/comments/ml2ozx/can_freon_cause_irregular_heartbeat/
Tell me im crazy, that these rarely used reddit accounts telling me, "come on now... it wasnt that bad" werent people working at wcb, the labor board, or even arca themselves? People thought I was crazy enough at the time, I wasnt going to call them out. Im appalachian as well, were the type to nearly lose a arm, and act calm about it, its really part of that stoic attitude alot of true Appalachians have.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A6RDX3I06LQ
Come across this guy later on as well.
https://huddle.today/2022/05/03/the-halifax-entrepreneur-erasing-your-digital-sins
No way to prove it, but I suspect he is, or is connected to the r/halifax mod hfx_redditor who has now rebranded himself as the brand new mod meetc.
This person had a huge agenda about deleting my posts, even taking over a dead subreddit called /thefaxns, to delete a rant I had done about the labor board and how they werent doing a thing to help me.
Things are so much worse than the average person realizes.