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Worth noting investigation by some users here on Lemmy have shown the situation to be really hinky. Probably just a troll race-baiting since no actual group has been found.
Good point .... so many social activities and actions now are so manipulated that you never know what anyone is doing.
Whatever information I read now ... I have to constantly stop to ask myself.... who wrote this? .. why? .. who does the writer represent? Who are they? What do they do? Where do they come from? What are their names and do they have a bio?
If I can't quickly verify who you are and what you wrote then I'm not believing anything that is said ... the same goes for the subject that is being written about ... who was the subject you wrote about? Did you find out who they were? Or what organization they represent?
I find I have to the majority of the work on my own in order to verify most of the junk I read online.
Officially recognised news media outlets are decent but even they have to be scrutinized in everything they say and write.
It's the age of information .... it's just that no one said it was disinformation, misinformation or just plain non-information.
This is actually the hard part of actual "research": evaluating the source's qualities.
Every time someone says to me "have you heard about xxxxxxxxx yyyyyyyyyyy" I ask, "according to whom?".
Could you elaborate on this? The article mentions both an e-mail address and associated Telegram group.
This sets off my bullshit detector too, but maybe I spent too much time on 4chan in the aughts.
I mean if you wander around Toronto enough you'll see some pretty bat shit stuff put on posts around town. Usually it's about "the Jews" or slightly more coded "Canada for Canadians" type stuff though.
I'd say a coin toss between a troll just trying for "shock", vs. some lone weirdo who really did a lot of online research on the Great Replacement and wants to use posters to get the word out.
I mean Her Majesty Queen ~~Roman Dildo~~ Romana Didulo I still rolls across the land, so I wouldn't discount the legitimacy of the poster outright. Still, it is pretty rage-baity, so decent chance it's just some trolling.