One way Feds compromise and/or destroy websites is “Wedging.” This psyop can be used at either the macro or the micro level.

This is from "A Midwester Doctor" at The Forgotten Side of Medicine
https://www.midwesterndoctor.com/p/united-we-stand-divided-we-fall

Wedging
If a wedge is pounded into a piece of wood, the wood will split on either side of the wedge. This gave rise to one of the most common tactics in politics; seeding a highly divisive idea (wedge issue) within your political opposition and then forcing everyone to be for or against it, thereby fracturing their coalition and winning the election.

Classically, wedging is most commonly used by a minority political party to gain political power by fracturing and taking the support of a ruling party and hence has been used by demagogues throughout history (or likewise on a smaller scale by power hungry members of a social group to gain control of it).

I believe a key reason why wedging “works” is a result of the ego always having a desire to dominate others (and be right), along with the fact it is typically much easier to see things in black and white then to try and understand the perspective of the person you disagree with. Because of this, I constantly see people try to force others to agree with the particular wedge issue they are attached to, and once that fails, to get more and more aggressive in pressuring them to adopt it by saying you are the enemy if you don’t agree with them. In my eyes this is extremely shortsighted because:

•Most people overestimate their power and think just because strong people can force others to agree with their ideas, they can too—whereas in reality they are simply someone trying to stop a heavy boulder from rolling down a hill and at best they might be able to slightly slow it down or make its motion a bit more jolty. This is why so many people will waste hours going in circles over an argument online (as each believes they can force the other to submit to their viewpoint) and why I almost never confront someone deeply wedded to a viewpoint head on (rather, like the ball rolling down the hill, I try to gently redirect their course to something I feel we can both agree on).

•It frequently leads to cult like mentalities where people are forced to agree to more and more extreme wedges to avoid being the “enemy,” which frequently leads to purity spirals forming.

•It greatly limits the reach of a group’s message to independents (whom the group needs to attract for their message to be heard) as independents will reject the extreme positions of the group alongside all of the more moderate ones they could agree upon. This in turn touches upon the philosophy most of us share: it is more important to get mainstream acceptance for the politically viable ideas than it is to endlessly struggle for the ideas that are presently for too outside the mainstream for them to ever get accepted.

Because of all of this, one of my central goals has been to diffuse wedges as I see forming in the community. For example, the behavior (and morphology) of microbes within your body is highly influenced by the health (terrain) of the body, and as such, there has been a longstanding belief in natural medicine infection management should focus on the body’s terrain rather than just trying to eliminate the infectious organism (something I agree with, particularly for chronic infections).

This gave birth to an erroneous belief within a subset of the terrain theory community that viruses do not exist, and that all proof of their existence was the result of elaborate misinterpretations of existing data. This belief was mostly ignored until (as Igor Chudov later discovered) it was seeded in this community to destabilize it (as its adoption creates an easy way to dismiss everything we said). Once that happened, a vocal swarm of commenters started trying to wedge everyone into admitting viruses didn’t exist or accuse them of secretly working in concert with the pharmaceutical industry to spread the destructive lie that they did.

Since I’d extensively studied this subject (as I am highly skeptical of many of the mainstream virology positions), I wrote an article (and a followup) addressing both sides of the common arguments being raised. It reached those not deeply invested in the theory and the topic mostly disappeared (although I still periodically receive controlled opposition accusations for holding the position that viruses exist).

Similarly, a segment of our community believes that the everyone involved with COVID-19 should be subject to mass executions or sent to Guantanamo Bay. However, while I believe serious accountability is needed, the only thing advocating for something like that accomplish is alienating most of the electorate and making those in power fight to the bitter end to avoid being tried (in other words sabotage anything from getting done). As such, its another wedge issue we’ve periodically run into where we’ve been told told unless we accept that extreme position, we are the enemy.

Note: there are a lot of other wedge issues that have also been promoted over the last four year and I specifically cited these two as they illustrate the character of many of them.