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Help: Looking for article about made-up West Asian movement leader (lemmy.ml)
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Several weeks back (maybe a little more) there was a spate of posts about some USian revealing that whatever agency he worked for have just invented a guy that they claimed led some movement in West Asia (might have been a Palestinian movement) and that they spent years writing articles where they just attributed statements to him even though he didn't exist.

I cannot, after hours of searching, find ANY article like this. Was it debunked and scrubbed? Is it just my search-fu is weak? Can anyone help me find it?

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[–] [S] 1 point 1 week ago

That's what I'm trying to figure out. Ex State Dept? Ex CIA? Could have been Reuters or AP for all I know. It was a boomerish white dude, white facial hair I think. I remember seeing the picture of him speaking at a microphone. Weird thing was he was standing? Like he was doing a speech at an event? It's so frustrating that like 90% of content is screenshots of text that I can't seem to search. And I feel like I saw the post on the lemmyverse at least 5 times.

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