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2023-02-02 00:08:02 UTC - NOT_HELPFUL
Rated by Participant: DDC7721E26A3FADDEA3AB665E674B83ED072D149A86B19D204783AE0D3DC547A
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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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