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Among the core self-identified purposes of JTRIG are two tactics: (1) to inject all sorts of false material onto the internet in order to destroy the reputation of its targets; and (2) to use social sciences and other techniques to manipulate online discourse and activism to generate outcomes it considers desirable.
Perhaps, but the real shills are much more insidious than simply posting articles on blogs or writing opinion pieces. They are like ballot-stuffers, they literally maintain hundreds of online personalities and use those to try to affect opinion sways. There is specialized software available simply for this purpose. Usually they use simple tactics like calling people liars or doing simple debunking like derailing conversations. Trolling essentially. The good ones you never even know about, the conversation shifts subtly and no one is the wiser.voguy wrote: Dare I say many become unknowing accomplices by going to sites and reposting the content elsewhere?
