Yes, that’s more or less exactly what I was hinting at.
Of course, I would never do something as badjacketing as accusing some other poster of posting vaguely anti-protest stuff that doesn’t make any sense, as some kind of deliberate astroturf, except that they seemed to feel totally comfortable accusing me of being “astroturfey” for posting the original thing.
You should absolutely be careful of your privacy at these events. But accusing one specific one of being a fake for “data collection” is totally strange.
I definitely didn’t intend to imply or accuse you of being astroturfey or anything else for that matter and I’m truly sorry it came off that way. It seems I should be much more careful in my wording. I did a bad job of paraphrasing something I heard about how the original Reddit accounts and lack of traditional organizers are a bit suspicious.
At the end of the day I think we’re all scared and trying to navigate a complex media ecosystem and it’s easy to make mistakes.
I genuinely have heard concerns from friends and was trying to check their veracity. It seems from what I’ve heard here that they are bogus and I’m grateful to the commenters who have pointed that out.
I added an edit to my original comment to try to make this clearer to anyone else who’s been fed the same misinformation as me and I’ll definitely share that with my community.
Yes, that’s more or less exactly what I was hinting at.
Of course, I would never do something as badjacketing as accusing some other poster of posting vaguely anti-protest stuff that doesn’t make any sense, as some kind of deliberate astroturf, except that they seemed to feel totally comfortable accusing me of being “astroturfey” for posting the original thing.
You should absolutely be careful of your privacy at these events. But accusing one specific one of being a fake for “data collection” is totally strange.
I definitely didn’t intend to imply or accuse you of being astroturfey or anything else for that matter and I’m truly sorry it came off that way. It seems I should be much more careful in my wording. I did a bad job of paraphrasing something I heard about how the original Reddit accounts and lack of traditional organizers are a bit suspicious.
At the end of the day I think we’re all scared and trying to navigate a complex media ecosystem and it’s easy to make mistakes.
I genuinely have heard concerns from friends and was trying to check their veracity. It seems from what I’ve heard here that they are bogus and I’m grateful to the commenters who have pointed that out.
I added an edit to my original comment to try to make this clearer to anyone else who’s been fed the same misinformation as me and I’ll definitely share that with my community.