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	A fact from this article appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the "Did you know?" column on October 27, 2022. The text of the entry was: Did you know ... that the Shiba Inu memes of NAFO have been called "an actual tactical event against a nation state"?

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Needs to be marked as Information warfare

This movement is an information warfare anf propaganda sharing body everyone with military knowledge understands that and they have been caught distributing fakes many times including in this very site and throughout this article this fact is occasionally allude to

Wikipedia If you have a true desire to report the truth then you must call black black and NOT white! 2A02:587:E838:13BB:A864:BDCC:74FF:8601 (talk) 21:21, 7 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Can you link to "reliable sources" discussing this claim? (Russian state media doesn't count as a reliable source.) –jacobolus (t) 22:59, 7 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

The group already is marked as "information warfare" in the lead. Flemmish Nietzsche (talk) 23:06, 7 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

You seem to be remarkably confused as to what Wikipedia is, and what it is not. It is not our responsibility to adjudicate what is or is not information warfare, or propaganda. Nor is it your responsibility. That's for reliable sources to decide. ⇒SWATJester ^{Shoot Blues, Tell VileRat!} 23:28, 7 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

"Reliable sources" are currently failing to do so. This topic is in a unfortunate blindspot where the activity is supported by the few people that care to report on it, resulting in unreasonably favorable coverage of internet trolls. The article should tone down the uncritical promotion of the "group". There is no reason for us to be citing Official_NAFO about how important they think they are. Speece's article is also not as positive towards NAFO as quoted, he accuses them of "muddying the waters" on a nations policy stances. This is treated as causing policy problems, not as a desired effect as good cop/bad cop implies. The fact that some minor descriptions of the movement was quoted, but not the actual thesis of Speece's article shows how sloppy and/or biased the Wiki article is. JSory (talk) 02:03, 27 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]