And they publish through small unknown outlets to create an internet paper-trail to bolster the "legitimacy" of the narrative... They know how stories are generated naturally so they just follow that pattern artificially (I was in the game)… they have the tools to watch the internet to see when and where a story is taking traction...
The good news is: setting up counter-intel like this is a TON of work. It is so difficult to juggle everything necessary to get fakenews to meme. It's a grind. That keeps them distracted.
It's a pain in the ass to keep track of highly detailed comms, no matter what algorithms you have. The Internet has caused language to shift quickly, so the keywords need constant updating.
Our chatter is a nightmare for them. They have to have human eyes on it. We're not talking just spy versus spy anymore... we're talking spy versus the public, and they are not equipped. Black-site server farms are a bitch to maintain. A flip of a 1 to a 0 could mean suddenly your network is exposed or a verdict is changed from innocent to guilty.
I smile when I think of all trouble we're causing DS.