I was just sitting here overtired, thinking to myself about this. on the internet, you just read text, you have no idea who really wrote it unless you have serious capabilities and are among either the corporate elite, or in one of these agencies, and have access directly to bleeding edge social databases to profile whoever wrote that text.

but I was thinking about this... wouldn't these people try to obfuscate their own identity by talking and acting as if they were members of another social group entirely? I wouldn't be surprised if one of them was RPing a 'teenage girl' or one of us crazy conspiracy folk (more likely there)

surely, cointelpro worked like that but involved people actually getting into those organizations. the internet sort of makes this easier... but at the same time, it doesn't.

people make mistakes, especially when they are intentionally dumbing themselves down. I do this to be able to communicate with others in the real world regularly. using big, flowery, complex language doesn't really help to convey meaning to a bunch of idiots as well as it would to the educated. but even I throw in language that wouldn't belong there sometimes, since I'm not really being myself fully.

I would bet, some of these individuals would fuck up if you looked close and analyzed their writing style -- I'm not saying it would even be possible to do that, because youd need to be able to know who they were and follow their account.

but it would be interesting to note shifts word choice and other things. I'm not really any language analyst, but I know people have certain ways of speaking, certain words which they choose to utilize. and I'm sure with enough material to work from, just like people argue how the bible wasn't really written by who they say it was and came from different time periods and different authors, I bet you could tell if someone who wasn't a professional writer was play-acting it.

theres bound to be a lot of improvisation in online discussion, although its possible they would hire extensively skilled writers I guess. and most of the time itd probably just be trolls and psychos, and not MIB.

its probably just a crazy, stupid idea, that would lead to online witch hunts lol. but if they are out there, I seriously doubt they would risk their personal identity by acting as themselves, but at the same time, I feel like watching for stuff like that would be the real way to find shills. find something they say or do which doesn't actually fit with the rest of their artificial character.