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Helpful, but I still need more background knowledge to really understand what your are saying. You give a lot of names, but I don't hav any context for these folks because I don't live in a tech or gaming world. What is the profile or profile of these folks- just a quick outline? Are these people all paid? Who recruits them? Do they have other jobs? Are they technical types- computer programmers, gamers, other? Are they members of ideological groups?

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Can you come to the Zoom call? My documentary should help. We're watching today.

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When is your Zoom call today and how do I link to it? Please include timezone you are referring . Thanks.

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I tried to provide a link to every name with background info on them in the article. The context is in the links. I wanted to keep it fairly short so doing explanations of everyone inline is impossible. Who do you have questions about?

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Basically, I find that for a 101, you give too much information, not too little. It would be helpful if you first gave the buckets these trolls fall into:

- people who work in conservative politics of some sorts

- gamers

- computer programmers

I don't know what the buckets are. I'm just guessing. Then when you name the people, you could give a basic introduction that would place them in one of the buckets. Otherwise, I just have a vague ,confused idea of who these people are. I don't know such people and have never heard they exist before now.

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I wish there were simple buckets. It's a complex, evolving network running a long psyop. I've written about everyone in the article and linked to them. I'm not quite sure how else to do it.

I hope you can join us in a few hours. The doc is much more basic and gives lots of background about how it worked. Appreciate your feedback.

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I'm trying to get in the meeting, but it's not allowing me in.

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I got in and was glad I did, because I learned more from the film. I hope you can get it out to the public soon. Thanks for your hard work and courage.

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The most damaging thing about conspiracy theory's is they've been the pretext for many genocides. Governments have also weaponized conspiracy theory's for years to distract from current events, as well to to pacify populations into believing a narrative that suits the ends to their means.

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Great summary! (I’m watching Peaky Blinders ; 1933 Tommy Shelby is explaining the horseshoe theory to a woman from the IRA- lol)

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Wow, Jim. Incredible piece. My head dropped into my hands after reading this. It hits you right in frontal lobe. And stomach. It's been an exhausting six years. How do these creatines hold up anyway? It is soul sucking stuff.

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