With kids returning to school, the acting DHS deputy secretary is going for the 4Chan/reddit op.
As his followers (& anyone else this reaches on SM) go googling to decipher the memes, the algorithms are boosted.
He’s DHS.
He knows how it works.
He knows what he’s doing. /1 https://twitter.com/TUSK81/status/1292658434098073600
2/ The NPC meme is used to gather ASD/ neurodiverse gamers into a collective by “other-ing” what had already been termed “normies” with a previous op.

More importantly for bad actors behind these memes (either creating, or latching on & promulgating)... https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/npc-wojak 
3/...is to gather/scrape data off players who like & share these memes.

This is a long-term, very effective op, & our intel agencies know all about it. Cuccinelli is no idiot. Neither was Jr., when he did it back in 2016.

The bad guys have been on this since 2006. Here’s why...
In the days of Anonymous (before that community was “hacked” & broken down), something remarkable happened - either naturally or by intent.

/b/ on 4Chan (where Anonymous was born) engaged in a swastika “troll” that jumped from a hack in a kid’s game... https://www.reddit.com/r/4chan/comments/6mtrq5/today_is_the_anniversary_of_the_iconic_pools/
5/... to REAL LIFE activity.
It went so viral, that people were actually putting up signs at community pools.

I can’t underscore enough how big this was. It meant 2 things:

1) There was a community so desensitized to swastikas, they’d use characters with Afros to create them...
6/ & 2) That a troll this extreme could get people from behind their computers & out into the real world, where they continue it.

If you aren’t aware of the history of this community (Anon), here’s a 2012 docu that gives a decent intro. I’ve cue’d it. https://m.youtube.com/watch?t=13m30s&v=-zwDhoXpk90
7/ “Pool’s Closed” (the Afro-swastika op) was an experiment that proved what was possible, if you could infect an online community with the right messaging.

Content is fungible. It was the TECHNIQUE of how to do this that since got refined. https://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/us_5cc2f5fce4b08846403d181e
8/ “The carelessness of innocence is the open door that evil seeks.”
https://twitter.com/lincolnsbible/status/929745665130770432?s=21 https://twitter.com/lincolnsbible/status/929745665130770432
10/ Posobeic is in this op up to his eyeballs. This is from early 2017.
CODA
Getting a lot of DMs.
Glad this flicked on 💡for folks.
And for those wondering if, or even why, a robust foreign intelligence operation would be interested in infiltrating a hacktivist group, I have 2 responses:
1) 🤦‍♀️
2) Read this list: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_events_associated_with_Anonymous
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