It's a standard strategy, a lot of companies employ these kinds of strategies. It can also include slipping in spelling or punctuation differences that would not be immediately obvious.
Not this one at least. They started back in 2017 the 1st time Trump was in office and are actively trying to get Elon arrested so probably not what he wants.
OH! I can explain this one! Legitimately this is a clever way to reduce the field of 'who is sharing something they're not supposed to' in digital form. It's the old 'share a story 3 times but with different details to see who gossips' but applied to digital formats.
Stuff like this is how the folks at Genius (the company that runs one of the lyrics website) were able to prove that google was scraping their site to repost, by hiding blank unicode characters (with unique unicode references) as morse code in the breaks between sections of lyrics or at line ends.
In print it can be as simple as omitting a comma or period. The sort of thing that an look accidental and is difficult to notice unless you have the multiple copies of a document in front of you. The important trick here is that salting documents like this produces an identifiable chain of custody.
If I can prove that only a certain segment of the office that had access to the documents being leaked could have leaked a particular version, I've just reduced the size of the haystack I'm combing though dramatically. Now I can apply the same strategy again, maybe after doing some snooping.
Anonymity and obscurity are really powerful aids, which is why techniques like this are dangerous to whistleblowers and people who mean well, as much as they are useful to people who have a legitimate and needed duty to protect information from being stolen or illegally diseminated.
Making a search area smaller means you can better commit time and resources to searching properly, as oppose to having to work from cursory searches that might not turn anything up quickly and get a rise out of a large group of people. Isolation and marginalization makes fascist moves easier to use.
I don't know how to do it, but if somebody wrote a script to transcribe text while fixing spelling errors and triple spacing between all words and punctuation, I think that'd nip the issue in the bud.
Also, check for white text on white background while you're at it.
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Definitely not.
Also, check for white text on white background while you're at it.