Usually their hot topics are bitching about housing and simping for TOP but these days I’ve noticed a lot more posts to the extent of “labour sucks and now I have no choice but to vote for national >:(”. Unsure if this reflects a general change in sentiment or if certain parties are spending their excess donations on buying out accounts. Worth mentioning I’ve noticed inflammatory topics posted by accounts that have been dead for years.
Yep there’s an art to stirring people up so much they start attacking politicians in the street and sending them death threats, but not going so far as to be seen as directly inciting such behaviour.
This RNZ article from a couple years back has been doing the rounds lately, and looks at how the ‘taxpayers Union’ does it with help from act.
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/political/439960/ex-act-staffer-grant-mclachlan-says-party-created-fake-grassroots-groups