Could there be disinformation agents operating on boards?

Is this the next step in trying to find yourself a safe-space?

Disinformation agents, or people just spouting unsourced BS with a veneer of knowledge can occur anywhere. If they are here? Who are they? What are they targeting? Why?

Sorry for the questions, consider them rhetorical as I know you don't like them.

Although, what if I'm a disinformation agent? Does challenging my questioning refute or reinforce my effort to fúck shít up!

Nah, it could just be obsession. Hobby, making a name, creating little band of brothers personality cult... No need to see disinfo operation everywhere :)

I think that there are people who like to see themselves as in the know and educated on subjects. In reality they have been taken advantage of by, and are the victims of disinformation agents. Most people who open threads on this forum are an example, as are those who back up their beliefs. Disinformation agents these days are people who are trying to make money of those who they influence with their lies and conspiracy theories.

Israel funds a massive online troll army to defend it's Apartheid regime and justify it's human Rights abuses. As Ireland is at the forefront of Palestinian rights in Europe it's safe to say Boards.ie and other Irish sites are high on its list

You do realise anyone can look this up and see that mods weren't "threatening to close it down".

I am not following anyone. You have posted a manipulated photo and lied about it, which was easy for anyone to spot. You just made a false claim about a thread anyone can look up. Perhaps stop with the BS and blaming other people when called out on it.

Back on topic, there is no end of disinformation on this forum, I doubt anyone is paid for that.

I think its very likely yes. Governments and intelligence agencies seek to influence people generally. Electronic media and culture are a part of this.

On the old politics.ie site some posters admitted they were paid to post there. One poster (odetojoy) was working directly for the EU I think I recall?

A few posters on boards Current Affairs are obviously on party-political assignments (posting daily and sticking to the party line uniformly) and haven't denied it when other posters put it to them directly.

Russian/Ukrainian troll farms and the Chinese government using Twitter shills is a matter of record.

Yeah there are paid government agents on some of the least viewed threads on Boards.ie

Christ. Some people really need to get out of the house.

Loads id say, and loads of people who work for the parties too. not specifically for Baords.ie though!

If you notice outside any of the tribunals of the politican crooks, Bertie, Charlie etc, youll see pro FF'ers cheering, trying to drown out boos etc. But its all very Irish and amateur. Shoving people.

I read that whole thread and all I see are mods asking MO to provide evidence to support what they posted. Something it seems they are not very keen on.

There could be. I've been accused of being a "Putinbot" and receiving money from the Kremlin for merely expressing doubts about a narrative. So it's quite feasible to surmise that there may be people who either stoke an opinion or crash down upon another.

There are one or two mods at it even :)

Last year I posted about councils buying up houses and apartments from under ordinary buyers and got told I was living in cuckoo land and that I should be posting in the conspiracies theories section.

Thread got closed then.

You are what you write.

Wise people talk because they have something to say. (Astro)Fools talk because they have to say something.

Most of the stuff that's posted on this forum qualifies as disinfo. From the pandemic is fake to the "Communists are coming" to the space program is fake and so on

Are the people who spread these paid to do so? Unlikely. They just unwittingly (or otherwise) posting them to public forums for whatever personal reasons.