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Category Archives: Tactic

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.”

Posted byAdam M17th November 2022Posted inT&T AssessmentTags:T&T Assessment

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.”

Posted byAdam M7th November 2022Posted inT&T AssessmentTags:T&T Assessment

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.

Posted byAdam M1st November 20223rd November 2022Posted inVulnerability SpotlightTags:Vulnerability Spotlight

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.

Posted byAdam M1st November 20221st November 2022Posted inVulnerability SpotlightTags:Vulnerability Spotlight

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”

Posted byAdam M30th October 2022Posted inT&T AssessmentTags:T&T Assessment

Tactics & Techniques: “Pranksters posing as laid-off Twitter employees trick media outlets: ‘Rahul Ligma’”

“You got conned. Name is ‘Rahul LIGMA.’ C’mon man,”

Posted byAdam M29th October 202230th October 2022Posted inT&T AssessmentTags:T&T Assessment

Tactics & Techniques: “Powerful People Tell Us Things”

“By allowing politicians to lie about their true motivations and printing the lies as fact, the news media continues its long tradition of allowing powerful people to manipulate the public into not understanding the true drivers of political actions and policies.”

Posted byAdam M27th October 2022Posted inT&T AssessmentTags:T&T Assessment

Tactics & Techniques: “A pro-government disinformation campaign on Indonesian Papua”

“It is the notion that these tweets are spontaneous posts by authentic Twitter users that is false, and which marks the campaign as disinformation.”

Posted byAdam M23rd October 202223rd October 2022Posted inT&T Assessment, TacticTags:T&T Assessment

Technique Spotlight: Algospeak

Algospeak is used to make it harder for automated moderation to detect harmful content

Posted byAdam M20th October 202224th October 2022Posted inTactic, Tactic Spotlight, Technique SpotlightTags:Technique Spotlight

Tactics & Techniques: “Facebook uncovers Chinese network behind fake expert”

“The accounts had promoted the claims of a fake Swiss biologist called “Wilson Edwards”, who alleged the US was meddling in efforts to find the origins of Covid-19 […] However, the Swiss embassy said that it was unlikely this person existed.”

Posted byAdam M20th October 20221st November 2022Posted inT&T AssessmentTags:T&T Assessment, Tactic

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