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by exo-pla-net 1794 days ago
What makes you believe that what you're observing is a misinformation campaign, and not just the usual crop of zealous conspiracy nuts?
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What makes you believe the two aren't overlapping to some degree?

Here is a Guardian article talking about German zealous conspircay nuts organizing a anti-vax protest in Australia: https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2021/jul/27/who-b...

I wouldn't count that as misinformation; it is sincere advocacy. A misinformation campaign would be organized by intelligency agency for the purpose of weakening another country.
A misinformation campaign is a campaign (=concerted communication effort) to spread misinformation.

Whether the people who spread it know it is in fact misinformation is a different discussion. Whether someone just fed into existing grievances in a clever way another one altogether.

Not exactly a bot misinformation campaign, but interesting, thanks.

I think of QAnon types as being a bit muddle-headed. I doubt they're capable of creating a bot campaign. Russia could, but they don't need to: we do it to ourselves.

An Occam/Hanlon's Razor corollary: don't attribute to bots or shills that which idiocy can fully explain.

The Q movement has all the hallmarks of an astroturfing campaign. Don't assume it's just a bunch of idiots.
There are some useful idiots in the mix but some of the individuals do it obviously as a full time job. They are also more skilled at it than the average nutcase. It seems to be their job to put the words into the mouths of these conspiracy nuts.

I'm have a suspicion that some of them are funded by an entity backed by a nation state actor. These individuals have connections to some earlier ops whose backing has been revealed.