provocateur

Bilzerian helped an entrepreneur named Roger Ver—a provocateur widely known as Bitcoin Jesus—to purchase citizenship on the island.

He isn't as sensitive or shallow as you portray him, he's a provocateur and he embraces it to his leverage.

This does not appear to be any kind of official action but some kind of agent provocateur simply passing out leaflets.

It's important to note that his role was not just information gathering, but also agent provocateur, riling the group into criminal acts.

Calacanis is an agent provocateur and the people fall each time for it.

Fine, keep pulling that term out on HN and you will be seen as a provocateur, whether or not you actually are one.

Can you see how your weakness for ad hominem might play right into a disinformation tactic as old as the state, the agent provocateur?

Among other things, you seem confused about the meaning of 'agent provocateur'.

And he was explicitly called out as being an agent provocateur.

An agent provocateur a law enforcement agent who infiltrates a group.

In the video, the speech Litvinkeyo's widow gives to the media here, could the dramatic interruptions by the barking-dog-owning, sign-wielding nutter be those of an agent provocateur?

A real scholar with radical ideas, not a provocateur.

Andrew "weev" Auernheimer, a well-known provocateur, hacker, and anti-Semite, circulated her home address and Social Security number online.

If all your insight and "unique" analyses are only applied to the current breaking news, you're, in fact, a provocateur, not a thinker.

Keep trying long enough, and they will label you as a "sheep" (a member of the willingly unaware public) or a "wolf in sheep skin" (basically, and agent provocateur).

His cooperation with Gravenreuth was also mentioned in a 1997 lecture at a conference of the German hacker Chaos Computer Club by the group’s former spokesperson Andy Muhler-Maguhn, who labelled him an "agent provocateur" not to be trusted.

Agent-Provocateur isn't just the name of a knicker factory - its a real tactic deployed against enemies of the regime, which include civic groups (unions), churches and other citizen organizations.