How Covert Agents Infiltrate the Internet to Manipulate, Deceive, and Destroy Reputations

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206. so is it ct or is it old news?

Star Member stevenleser (17,426 posts)

170. Hate to break it to you, but, the very idea of that is ridiculous.





I'm not saying that it is above the intelligence agency of any country in the world to do something like that if it would yield some kind of important result(s).

But the fact of the matter is, there is nothing that influencing DU would yield any agency in terms of results. No internet forum is nearly big enough to influence enough of the country in any direction on policy. If you took all of the major internet discussion forums of all ideological persuasions in the US, I doubt there are enough people in all of them to where influencing them would matter. That is before you get into the more detail oriented problems like, for instance, trying to get all of DU and all of HotAir to go the same way on an issue.

The only folks that buy stuff like this are the kind that generally buy into creative speculation ideas.