Eventually, the owners rebooted the whole forum with entirely new software but the damage was done. Not even 3% of the community came back. It was only a handful of "survivors".
And then the troll came.
This guy isn't an agent but does express some of the same characteristics. He was blocked under his old name but came back as Raj. You will literally see his posts dominating everything. Raj is mentally unstable. I was able to gather enough evidence from him in order to track down his identity. He lives in Cleveland, OH. He started using the forum because he wanted to "encourage" black people to target a particular white man by making up lies about him being a racist and part of a racist conspiracy. He claimed that the information he was giving us was from the man's black roommate. But the information was FAR too elaborate and detailed. Sometimes you just have to see through people to their real agenda. He never imagined anyone would actually track down the family of the man he was talking about and actually have a conversation.
It wasn't hard to find his daughter on Facebook. I could see from her social media that she wasn't a racist at all. Not even close. Her father didn't have a black roommate, but he did have someone who he allowed into his home and it was Raj. They fell out and Raj probably got kicked out at some point and basically fixated on the man and his family. What he was doing is illegal. He was attempting to weaponize the black community and use our anger at white supremacy to get us to commit a real crime against this man. And whoever did it would have gone to jail or prison while Raj himself kept his hands clean; at least that was his theory.
So again... an agent of a certain sort, but not really the same type of agent I typically look out for. He had a private agenda that led him to our community. However, certain aspects are the same. Using us, trying to manipulate us, thinking we will fall for it, they still have a lot in common. And even after the personal agenda of this agent failed, he went right into more typical agent behavior, indicative of someone who doesn't care about discourse but rather just posting "information" for unwary online consumers to mistake for being credible and believe without needing to know where it came from.
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