Something I've noticed over the years with social engineering operations: "They" will almost exclusively use fake events instead of playing up real ones. That puzzled me for a long time.

I figured out that They avoided real ones because They didn't have control of the Reality. Unexpected circumstances or inconvenient facts might surface. Real things lock into all other real things and are hard to dislodge.

With fake events, the facts and narratives are infinitely malleable. They can always shape them to any degree desired at the time or in the future. With the current state of the art, They will offer multiple narratives, often directly contradictory or exclusive, and you are free to choose any of them since they're all false.