[WikiEN-l] Is Conservapedia an attack site?

[Fred Bauder]

In other words, you think it's a black operation, not just dumb. I don't. I've seen this sort of stuff. I know it is an effective tactic, but the site viewed as a whole does not seem to be a sophisticated "counter-intelligence" operation.

Now, of course, some day I will find out that it was, and look unsophisticated myself. A successful operation might be deliberately be made clumsy in order to avoid detection by genuine conservatives. Certainly the site is harmful to conservative interests.

Fred

>-----Original Message-----
>From: Charlotte Webb [mailto:charlottethewebb at gmail.com]
>Sent: Friday, June 1, 2007 10:06 AM
>To: angela.anuszewski at gmail.com, 'English Wikipedia'
>Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] Is Conservapedia an attack site?
>
>On 6/1/07, Angela Anuszewski <angela.anuszewski at gmail.com> wrote:
>> If I didn't know they were actually for real, I'd think it was a parody. :)
>
>It looks more like an attempt to undermine the credibility of the
>political right, seemingly (but not really) from within. Whereas a
>parody would be written for readers' amusement, this borders more on
>well-poisoning/trolling, where the desired effect is to incite
>backlash by readers who assume "serious conservatives" actually share
>their views, hence the name the site has chosen.
>
>—C.W.
>
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