You ' re not wrong . I think that these techniques were in use in the Ukraine protests lots of stories about Ukraine neonazis , probably Brexit , and also the Turkey coup attempt , and when I recall our discussions about Greece in 2010 , there was a ton of weird information about protests , and the Golden Dawn group . There was some initial talk about how Russian Oligarchs were keeping money in Greece as kind of a tax shelter but those discussions got brigaded to oblivion . Actual Greeks couldn ' t really form a coherent opinion about what was going on , and it sort of boiled into a popular opinion that Greeks deserved it austerity because they game the system and don ' t pay their taxes . almost sort of a mythological construct . A character assassination based on a generalized accusation against a whole nation . It was bizarre , and when I look back at it , I have to say in retrospect , it reeks of a misinformation campaign .