feed the hydra

The process of documenting networks of gossips, often at an office or at school, by feeding distinctive, false statements to different members of the network and then listening for references to those statements made by other members of the network.

"Nicholas never had thought to take up the game himself, to feed the hydra false information that wold echo in the whispering of its many heads" — John Fowles, "The Magus"

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