“She was probaly nudging. Seeding stories around various outlets well in advance to to nudge attitudes and achieve political goals for a future purpose.”
You ought to take up fiction writing, you appear to have a knack for it.
Mother Abigail would comment on threads that reported disease outbreaks. Some of us figured out that she knew a lot more about disease than the average yokel and we started picking her brain about the plagues that she had worked on. Like ebola. She told us details months ahead of it hitting the news. If anybody was doing any nudging it was the rest of us nudging her to get her to tell us stuff.
I just ignored it cuz I’m all outta tinfoil
:D