Don't just support Gnome: add a couple of paid devs to the Gnome project to help out, but more importantly make it even more antagonistic towards users and other non-Gnome devs. Have your undercover devs become highly-placed "visionaries" in the Gnome project, insulting and belittling anyone who opposes their One True Vision for desktop Linux and throwing a wrench into any attempts to get along with anything in the Linux ecosystem that isn't part of the Gnome project.
Extra credit: call anyone who disagrees "entitled"
There are better uses of tinfoil..
Indeed, but I wouldn't put it past them. lol
The task force's original top priority was convincing the world that they don't exist, but they apparently gave up any pretence of that last year when they rewarded Lennart Poettering with a job at the company.