Old, old fag provided some insight into organised shilling and left enough breadcrumbs to get people investigating.
One sideshow from that was the spectacle of Dr. Xu. pic related.
Dr. Xu and news about his 'human regenerative research' was hosted at Mebo.com and mebo-international.com. OOF inferred that Mebo was a Chinese intelligence shell company. The day after that thread was posted, Dr. Xu's obituary was put on the latter website; having 'choked to death at a business lunch' and mebo.com was taken down. The obituary has since been pulled and both sites are back.
Anyway shillgate threads about OOF's bean spillage were reposted on both /pol/s but some claimed they were being deleted, making people paranoid. It spread to 8chan (which is where I came across it) and you couldn't help but notice the full-scale sliding that came afterwards. At first the threads were stickied and info about the shill companies started coming out.
tbc
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