Thu Oct 13, 2022 – 2:35 pm EDTThu Oct 13, 2022 – 2:36 pm EDT
(LifeSiteNews) — The German federal domestic intelligence agency (Bundesamt für Verfassungsschutz or BfV) reportedly employs dozens of digital undercover agents that infiltrate, among others, online groups critical of COVID restrictions and vaccines, according to an anonymous online agent.
The anonymous female agent was interviewed by one of Germany’s largest mainstream newspapers, Süddeutsche Zeitung.
The agents make up a character that they play online to gain the trust of people in groups that the German intelligence agency deems as dangerous, according to the agent. While they use fake names, they do post real pictures of themselves to appear real to the people that they monitor. The agents not only like and share content but also post offending content themselves.
The female agent interviewed said that she started the job because she is an idealist and wanted to “do something against right-wing extremists.”
The most difficult thing is to be in “the bubble of recent conspiracy theories” and among people who see a “diabolical plot in the government’s [COVID-19] measures”
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