The thing that I find to be disheartening is how what has appeared to have happened here is almost the same story across multiple areas, in multiple movements and organizations that show potential for novel discovery, that some sort of socio/psychopath wanders in. He gets to gain trust and appear to be a legitimate person, a little shaky in a few areas, but they appear to either be not that large of an immediate problem or something he can change.
Then during his time of gaining legitimacy he learns exactly what the weak points are and logical fallacies within these movements, and simply begins to exploit them back onto the organization. The chaos that ensues, while yes for those that end up figuring it out are more hardened for the next encounter, stalls the entirety of the movement and takes steam out of it, something which takes much more effort to build once lost.
If this cycle is allowed to rinse and repeat their hopes seem to be that they will simply give up. This to me is the main concern I have had lately, having seen this happen in more places than just those mentioned here. This is why we're seeing so much worldwide resistance, while these people are not consciously realizing it, somewhere in their subconscious they've all been trying to little by little do what they can to change things. The reason why there is so much violence in some of these areas I feel is because after being bombarded with such negativity and hopelessness of what the system has been doing, some of them absolutely have lost it. Their mind has just said "Well, that's about all I can do, I'm going to let the hormones take over now" and away we go.
But I digress, my point is by creating this drama, widespread amongst all of the freethinkers, and making it seem like there's too many active asshats for anyone to be productive, it's almost like they're trying to raise the subconscious noise/frustration level. Like they're prepping a reaction to an event they're working on. That's what my gut tells me when I look at synchronicity and patterns between all of these events happening in the online world.