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Originally posted by indigothefish
reply to post by theAymen
you've been a member for ten days... i don't recall ever seeing your name or reading a post by you.
this post is the combined recollection of my reading and posting since 2006, i have posted this information individually and with a little less detail many times in many threads through my time, so far, here on ATS.
i have always wanted to post all of my thoughts on disinformation here at ATS, however there is so much complexity to it that i succumbed to simplifying it into what i beieive are the most successful 3 tactics being used here so that 'truth' seekers here can see them being used.
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Originally posted by indigothefish
reply to post by thegoodearth
I agree that teamwork is a key player as well to disinformation agents. Such as group bashing. It doesn't have to be well coordinated really.. Ultimately the idea is to have those bashing the lie seem to outnumber those trying to logically reveal the truth
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Let's say, for an example, that you wish to create the illusion on ATS that the sky is orange in antarctica...
Originally posted by thegoodearth
Anti-conspiratorial.
They almost always have disdain for 'conspiracy theorists'. Ask yourself why, if they hold such disdain for conspiracy theorists, do they focus on defending a single topic discussed in a forum focusing on conspiracies? One might think they would either be trying to make fools of everyone on every topic, or simply ignore the group they hold in such disdain.Or, one might more rightly conclude they have an ulterior motive for their actions in going out of their way to focus as they do.
I guess that makes me disinfo!
Brilliant thread, and right on from my observations. There are other ways you can tell what's what too.
Lets's take Mr, Chadwickus here:
Disinfo is as disinfo does.
You see these techniques from the OP a lot with almost every chemtrail thread (on which Mr. C appears quite frequently)
Other disinfo techniques and ways of sussing them out: Sarcastic one or two liners,
Refusal to engage in a bidirectional conversation (it always ends up "I'm right and you're wrong" often followed again by sarcastic comments.)
Using emotionally charged words like "hoax" even though the "hoaxer" may be genuine in their inquiry
A useful way to begin to see people for who they really are:
Go to the member profile page and look through the record of all of their posts and the topics they comment on. This is useful on a few different levels. First, by looking at the topics that they post on and the nature of those posts it draws a pretty clear picture. Secondly, you can do a simple frequency analysis. Again in the case of chemtrails, If 78% of a members 800 posts are on chemtrails (actual example) and many of those posts include the OP's or other disinformation techniques, that's a pretty good indication of where the person stands (unless they are just really, really passionate about a certain topic and naturally inclined to use techniques identified as disinfo tools.)
And of course, when confronted they usually own it with things like "I'm surprised it's not a higher percentage", twist things around, or simply respond sarcastically like they are prone to do.