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> What would they post?

Anything that swayed public opinion. For one example posting negative things regarding the Edward Snowden controversy. There were people calling him a "traitor" who "got people killed" with zero post history.

As I said, the evidence that the USG does this is not strong, although there have been reports that discuss doing it (and methods), and the USG almost certainly do have strong influence over the popular media (e.g. evening news, newspapers, etc) and have since the cold war (when newspapers would have a CIA employee in every newsroom, providing "feedback" on certain stories and some claim pushing US puff pieces).




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