I have come across the following political phenomenon recently and I can’t find the right word for it.
Imagine a group of people (say an ethnic minority or gender) who campaign against their mistreatment by the government. Now imagine the government secretly sets up another group populated by people of the same minority (or gender) who supposedly are campaigning for the same cause. But in fact their job is to undermine the arguments against the government and so to discredit the original group of complainants.
What do you call such a group?
Best Answer
This is a False Flag operation, almost exactly by definition.