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2023-02-01 23:40:24 UTC - NOT_HELPFUL
Rated by Participant: A9749581104CE9B11A6346266CC777C2037619A941B86B7CB535B253D772C19B
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Unfounded accusations that your target is a pedophile are a favored harrassment tool of the modern digital far right, but this tactic is much older. Essentially this is a way to sabotage whatever sympathy one might have for the target, making them "the other". https://www.wired.com/story/crying-pedophile-is-the-oldest-propaganda-trick-in-the-book/
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