Disease ecologist Peter Daszak describes the ‘witch hunt’ he and his organisation have endured over Covid lab leak allegations.
  • DragonBallZinn [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
    43·
    2 months ago

    In bad country

    address in the United States, while the names of his children and wife had appeared on a “kill list” on 4chan, an anonymous online forum.

    ….ok, at this point 4chan has to be a psyop, right? Does nothing but spit out pro-us propaganda and use memes to make people want to believe it, even if it’s not true.

    • Awoo [she/her]@hexbear.netEnglish
      38·
      2 months ago

      Not started as one but it’s being allowed to continue existing because it’s beneficial as one and also incredibly easy to perform psyops on. I’m convinced that the left were chased off the site as part of psyops, it was left/right edgyness roughly 50/50 until the place got so obnoxious the left moved on and just allowed the nazis to takeover. I’m also convinced that this is the modus operandi of the feds in most online spaces, chase the left out of the space and get the right to take over. Look at how things go for the left in basically every online space, it’s always the same op.

      • besbin@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
        19·
        2 months ago

        Most of the time the platforms are already in capitalist hands so it’s really easy to just ask them to self moderate to ban and evict the left. The they just boost the “center” and voila!

      • redsteel@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
        7·
        2 months ago

        Did you ever see that ‘investigation’ or insider reveal bit about the mods of 4chan? Their Discord names were all posted, with screencaps of conversations etc. and some explanatory narration about who they were or how they acted. I think this was a few years ago, I don’t remember the details, just recall thinking that at least half of them should’ve been put to the wall immediately, starting with that piece of dogshit head mod with the edgelord screen name.

        The reveal showed that the site was deliberately and knowingly steered toward neo-nazi and reactionary dominance in discussions and mod actions. /b/ with its juvenile nO rULeSSszZz had been like an open barn door to something like that happening for years and finally it did. A fucking gold mine for psy ops of the CIA and FBI, ever in pursuit of their anti-communist wetdreams while they pretend to be impartial to any political affiliations in all their PR.

        • DragonBallZinn [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
          2·
          2 months ago

          That’s what I thought, it seems sus that admittedly one of the most influential sites for internet culture just so happens to be a global House Unamerican Activities Committee.