It’s time to retire the concept of “fedposting”

The term “fedposting,” arose on 4chan’s /pol/ in the late 2010’s. Used to describe anonymous figures advocating violent illegal action, fedposting was an accusation that the original poster was a federal law enforcement agent or “Fed.” The deeper history of fedposting requires looking back at the numerous intelligence operations beginning in the 1950s with COINTELPRO and finishing with the rise…