Whereas if it’s Deep State doing it, then it’s most definitely intentional AND malicious.
Well right. It is intentional and malicious, by definition. Not sure why the writer threw that in there. It is at its core a form of unethical manipulation. Devious even. It can be very simple, or very complex.
The political-media complex spends billions of dollars on it, very sophisticated and interlocked, coordinated across different platforms, because it works so well. They are completely and utterly dependent on it Now you know what all those “think tanks” have been doing for all these years.
Even something as simple as “Well, you’re the first/only person to complain about it” is a type of that. It’s a way they will try to frame the issue as something nobody else is concerned about, when it is exactly the opposite.
They have to keep people divided, and uninformed, or misinformed, and turn the tables. If you know what you’re looking at, you see it every day, writ large.