The CIA infiltrates groups and companies, from within which they work toward their own covert agenda, and it looks like something organic on the surface. A conspiracy is hard to prove, but I do think a large portion of woke outrage is engineered. The goals is a slow encroachment of civil liberties; they want to make it difficult to host free speech sites, without caring too much about KF in particular. If you look at the smear attack against RMS a couple years ago, you'll see something shady going on, namely that the main articles in that campaign was written by someone who worked for a company that opposes free software. So if there's covert activity going on now, it wouldn't be the first time.