# Technique T0031: Cultivate ignorant agents

* **Summary**: Cultivate propagandists for a cause, the goals of which are not fully comprehended, and who are used cynically by the leaders of the cause. Independent actors use social media and specialised web sites to strategically reinforce and spread messages compatible with their own. Their networks are infiltrated and used by state media disinformation organisations to amplify the state’s own disinformation strategies against target populations. Many are traffickers in conspiracy theories or hoaxes, unified by a suspicion of Western governments and mainstream media. Their narratives, which appeal to leftists hostile to globalism and military intervention and nationalists against immigration, are frequently infiltrated and shaped by state-controlled trolls and altered news items from agencies such as RT and Sputnik. Also know as "useful idiots" or "unwitting agents".

* **Belongs to tactic stage**: TA15


| Incident | Descriptions given for this incident |
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| [I00005 Brexit vote](../generated_pages/incidents/I00005.md) | YouTube; Reddit; LinkedIn; Pinterest; WhatsApp? |
| [I00010 ParklandTeens](../generated_pages/incidents/I00010.md) | YouTube; Reddit |
| [I00017 US presidential elections](../generated_pages/incidents/I00017.md) | YouTube; Reddit; (Instagram, LinkedIn; Pinterest; WhatsApp?) |
| [I00029 MH17 investigation](../generated_pages/incidents/I00029.md) | YouTube; Reddit;  |
| [I00032 Kavanaugh](../generated_pages/incidents/I00032.md) | YouTube; Reddit; (Instagram, LinkedIn; Pinterest; WhatsApp?) |
| [I00044 JadeHelm exercise](../generated_pages/incidents/I00044.md) | YouTube; Reddit |
| [I00049 White Helmets: Chemical Weapons](../generated_pages/incidents/I00049.md) | YouTube; Reddit;  |
| [I00050 #HandsOffVenezuela](../generated_pages/incidents/I00050.md) | YouTube; Reddit;  |
| [I00051 Integrity Initiative](../generated_pages/incidents/I00051.md) | YouTube; Reddit |
| [I00063 Olympic Doping Scandal](../generated_pages/incidents/I00063.md) | YouTube; Reddit;  |



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