Yeah back in 2022, I had just found my voice and developed a speaking style able to inspire understanding and articulate complex concerns down to simple concepts.

I used that to convey the idea that a certain spy agency was a terrorist group (by how they were operating) and were using accounts, with said very accounts visible in many of the instagram threads I was commenting in, being astro turf to sway certain opinions and do psyops on the American people. I got thousands of up votes and engagement.

Safe to say, I was naive, and it was terrifying to have them follow up and send investigators into private and public spaces to question me. I don't think they stopped tracking me, and I had terror follow me from detecting this in-person behavior that I could only formulate as "don't you have actual threats to go after". I'm still alive so glad that I wasn't enough of a threat to exterminate, or that I've been cautious enough after (though I keep making the embarrassing mistake of sharing posts like this on hacker news and getting the occasional "You're crazy" accusation and ad hominem style credibility attacks). Thing is when you have an expert who's job it is to act sane and credible, operating to remain in stealth and hide their behavior, any accusation to call them out as so rational response is to call out any observations around that as incredulous. And who's going to spy on the spy, would you look to gather evidence and record your interactions, send in a spy tape recorder, etc lol. of course not.