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Salmon companies and intelligence firm ran covert surveillance operations against wildlife activists. One man was followed by former paratroopers

Revealed: spies for hire used ‘Big Brother’ tactics on salmon farm activists

Amazing article by the famous british reporter Tom Burgis. He is one of my favorite book author and journalist. Thank you Tom👏👏👏

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The article is wild - apparently these salmon companies hired ex-military to literally stalk environmental activists, even going as far as placing GPS trackers on thier cars and creating fake social media profiles to infiltrate activist groups.
If you are a sane person, then this is the last thing you want to do to me. And I will tell you why. I'm pretty boring, don't really go too many places. But if you want to hang out chill that's cool. Are we friends now!? I have a friend!
- That's kind of naive. Information collected can be sophisticatedly altered.
  This is Western Democracy. Anyone who threatens that narrative will quickly find themselves through a very dark looking glass.
- A loner with no friends or social activities, visits a website known for radical communist sentiment. That won't play well in media.
  Sure you can do similar for anyone. But the media would have an easy time turning you into a public enemy.
  
  But I have friends and social activities...

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