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by mantas 1082 days ago
Why pay attention to this if you can simply blame another state actor?

And German federal government have a history for covert shitposting.

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    And German federal government have a history for covert shitposting.
Wow, I never heard this before. Can you provide some examples famous examples?
I remember there was a series of articles several years ago that German intelligence officers generated a lot activity in far-right websites. To the point that frequently it was mostly undercover „extremists“ discussing between themselves.

The closest article I can quickly find is about Germany intelligence informants doing the same in meatspace though.

> There was a "risk that sources of the intelligence service (Office for the Protection of the Constitution) could goad each other on to undertake bigger actions;" in other words, the system threatened to create an "incendiary effect."

https://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/german-police-d...