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If the bots and sockpuppet accounts on twitter are any indication of sockpuppetry among public internet forums than it's safe to assume there's a significant and non-trivial amount of postings coming from agenda pushing organizations.

The "false flag" stuff is just loony. But there is an element of CYA because previous rounds of funding allocation have apparently evaporated into the ether.

Oh, the frothing pre-dates Trump by a long way. It seems to be a self-sustaining mode in US politics, this deep paranoia about conspiracies.