According to the comments r/europe_sub and r/canada_sub might be involved as well.

  • considine@lemmy.ml
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    23 hours ago

    Do you mean investors are trying to manipulate stocks by planting stories? Yeah, I think so. But intelligence agencies have whole training programs on how to manipulate narratives, and a very long track record of doing so.

    See: Israel’s hasbara apparatus,

    GCHQ leaked documents on infiltrating and derailing socialist discussions,

    Church Committee Hearings,

    “The Cultural Cold War” by Frances Stonor Saunders.