I can definitely see how that makes people feel like what they're doing is more important than it is. Sure they are probably slightly influencing some things, but not this terminally online nonsense. Look at how weak and fucked the radical left is, they don't have to do that much unless it actually becomes something. Spreading suspicion and doubt around people by saying you suspect them for being feds or CIA or whatever doesn't protect anyone from anything, it just perpetuates division and makes external observers think you're a bunch of weirdos. Even less trust is not something you remotely need right now. There's so many posts cropping up on left internet every now and then of people being like "I'm considering joining an organization and x org has a chapter close to me but I'm afraid they might be feds". It's so stupid, it's like people are doing their job for them. The reason there is nothing united about the left is the left itself (including this stupid self policing) and material conditions, not the feds.