Stupidity is weaponized by state actors; some countries try to damage their competitors by throwing fuel on already existing stupidity of the competitor’s citizens. And they are recently getting better at it.
The idea is that you wait for e.g. a conspiracy theory to appear naturally (such theories are better selected for the environment), but then you provide it all kinds of support. For example, you could provide a web server, install and maintain a publishing software, and donate enough money for a few conspiracy theorist so they can quit their jobs and focus full-time on spreading the message… thus for the small cost of maybe $10k a month you can disrupt entire country. And you can run hundred such operations in parallel for a budget that is still negligible for a state actor; the costs increase less than linearly.
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Stupidity is weaponized by state actors; some countries try to damage their competitors by throwing fuel on already existing stupidity of the competitor’s citizens. And they are recently getting better at it.
The idea is that you wait for e.g. a conspiracy theory to appear naturally (such theories are better selected for the environment), but then you provide it all kinds of support. For example, you could provide a web server, install and maintain a publishing software, and donate enough money for a few conspiracy theorist so they can quit their jobs and focus full-time on spreading the message… thus for the small cost of maybe $10k a month you can disrupt entire country. And you can run hundred such operations in parallel for a budget that is still negligible for a state actor; the costs increase less than linearly.