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[โ€“] JackbyDev@programming.dev 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I think it means like someone in the CIA. It might be more specific though.

It's any member of a federal agency trying to control or trick into a felony members of weirdo internet communities.

It started as a right-wing term, because they're obsessed with the idea that all their terrorists can't really be terrorists, but it's atypically nonracist so it's spread beyond that.