Originally Posted by
Sapphire Guard
I mean, spreading unfounded rumours about a person is generally not a nice thing to do 'Person X had control of this' is a particularly nasty one, because in the absence of any actual evidence people just assume that whoever they like had control over things they like, and whoever they don't like had control of the things they don't like, and no matter how unfounded it is it can't be proved wrong.
"This person is doing this behind the scenes" is similar, because you don't need to have any evidence, because it is behind the scenes. No evidence can prove it wrong, even if it was never true to begin with.