<story><title>Redditors discover #ReopenAmerica was started as an astroturfing campaign</title><url>https://old.reddit.com/r/MassMove/comments/g3toiz/a_post_by_udr_midnight_collating_information_on/fnv8j69/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>fack</author><text>&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;twitter.com&amp;#x2F;alibreland&amp;#x2F;status&amp;#x2F;1252037486295031808&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;twitter.com&amp;#x2F;alibreland&amp;#x2F;status&amp;#x2F;1252037486295031808&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>
<story><title>Redditors discover #ReopenAmerica was started as an astroturfing campaign</title><url>https://old.reddit.com/r/MassMove/comments/g3toiz/a_post_by_udr_midnight_collating_information_on/fnv8j69/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>akersten</author><text>It&amp;#x27;s pretty easy to understand this operation exists as part of an ongoing campaign to sow discord in the West. What better way to divide a nation than to encourage and exploit an existing polarization, rather than doing the dirty work yourself. Political subterfuge has evolved to be a lot more subtle - plant the seeds of discontent via Facebook events or meme factories, and watch groups take them up.&lt;p&gt;Similar to how completely baseless ideas that 5G causes cancer or coronavirus popped up out of nowhere - and you wind up with citizens destroying their country&amp;#x27;s own infrastructure[0]. An adversary&amp;#x27;s dream!&lt;p&gt;[0]: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;venturebeat.com&amp;#x2F;2020&amp;#x2F;04&amp;#x2F;03&amp;#x2F;uk-debunks-5g-coronavirus-link-after-conspiracy-theorists-burn-cell-tower&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;venturebeat.com&amp;#x2F;2020&amp;#x2F;04&amp;#x2F;03&amp;#x2F;uk-debunks-5g-coronavirus...&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>