I haven't read all eight pages of this thread, and you can call me naive, but for those of us who use Pprune openly and honestly to help our fellow aviators and wannabes, the potential that this is all a hoax to sway opinion for politics or entertainment really undermines the positives of Pprune. I don't know how you resolve it, but the feeling it leaves me with is that I want to get back to the good old days when I ignored the site completely and trusted no-one!
Think I might get back to the ATC boards where everything is perfect!