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DisinfoDB creates easily accessible profiles of tactics used in disinformation campaigns to help people understand how they’re being manipulated online.
Latest Technique Spotlights
Accessible summaries of Techniques used in Influence Operations, with real-world examples.
Vulnerability Spotlight: Low quality moderation of non-English language content
A former Google leader who worked on trust and safety issues acknowledged that the company focuses heavily on English-language enforcement and is weaker across other languages and smaller markets.
Vulnerability Spotlight: The Illusory Truth Effect
If you see something repeated enough times, it seems more true. Multiple studies show that it works on 85% of people. Worse, it still happens even if the information isn’t plausible & even if you know better.
Technique Spotlight: Algospeak
Algospeak is used to make it harder for automated moderation to detect harmful content
Latest Technique Assessments
Identifying Techniques in reporting on Influence Operations
Techniques: “These TikTok Accounts Are Hiding Child Sexual Abuse Material In Plain Sight”
On paper, TikTok has strong safety policies protecting minors, but “what happens in practice is the real test,” said McNamara. When it comes to proactively policing the sexualization of kids or trading of child sexual abuse material, she added, “TikTok is behind.”
Tactics & Techniques: “Majority of female journalists have been target of online violence – report”
“Abuse was highly gendered and designed to “humiliate, belittle and discredit” [female journalists] on both a personal and professional level.”
Tactics & Techniques: “How Google’s Ad Business Funds Disinformation Around the World”
“If the world’s largest online advertising platform doesn’t care that it has made false information, hate speech and toxic propaganda profitable in societies like ours, and has no intention to do anything to change because it wouldn’t financially pay off, that is devastating”
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Mapping Redditors’ attack on Kelloggs to the DISARM framework
In this post I’ll provide an overview of which DISARM techniques were used to achieve tactical goals in Redditors’ Influence Operation against Kelloggs
Reddit Mind-Hacktivists conduct a Disinformation Campaign against Kelloggs
Let’s kick things off with some of the good stuff; a video someone made showing them creating a bot which automates the Production and Publication of disinformation: It’s worth stating at this point I am not taking a moral stance when I call this disinformation; it just meets that criteria – i.e. knowingly spreading information…
4 reasons why Anti-Vaccine Facebook groups are winning over the Undecided masses
During the measles outbreak of 2019 Anti-Vaccine Facebook groups increased their membership more than Pro-Vaccine groups, with some growing by over 300%. Contrastingly there were no Pro-Vaccine groups which grew by more than 100% (and most groups grew by less than 50%). If Anti-Vaccine groups continue to grow at a higher rate than Pro-Vaccine groups,…
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