There's also JTRIG https://theintercept.com/2014/02/24/jtrig-manipulation/

OEV https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2011/mar/17/us-spy-op...

And my favorite psyOps which is Military Memetics/Memetic Engineering only because there's a guy in the US Army in charge of 'Meme Warfare'. As for this community bikeshedding distractions and somebody coming along with bait to derail a conversation with illogical fallacies (trolling) isn't anything new happened on newsgroups since as long as I can remember.