Former X Employee: "Elon Musk's and X's Role in 2024 Election Interference"

[molecularcactus1324@lemmy.world]

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[kazumara@discuss.tchncs.de]

That is obviously fake. I don't even detect any real attempt to make it believable.

Bold claims, no detail, perfectly aligned with the biggest fears of what Musk could have done. Even the stupid mention of AI agents and the link to an example in documentation, as if that random stuff was evidence that was congruent with the earlier claims.

Plus they fucked up the internal consistency, despite how short the text is: In the intro our fake protagonist is a former X employee, in the third paragraph from the bottom they are saying "We're currently doing the same thing in Germany".

[webghost0101@sopuli.xyz]

Is there a word for this kind of false flag operation?

The definition one is one party secretly doing something that looks like the other party did it and shifting blame on them.

But this sounds much more like creating an incompetent fake opponent to gaslight the legitimacy of a real accusation.