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Using ‘Paper Terrorism’ to coerce targets and waste their resources

Paper Terrorism is a harassment tactic in which people coordinate in order to hit a target with lots of illegitimate lawsuits at the same time, threatening to use them to take away targets’ money or freedom unless they acquiesce to a set of demands.

Posted byAdam M11th April 2022Posted inTacticTags:Tactic

Impersonating an existing news organisation

Threat actors can exploit peoples’ existing trust for a news organisation by pretending to be them when disseminating falsehoods. This also wastes resource of the targeted organisation.

Posted byAdam M10th April 202215th April 2022Posted inTacticTags:Tactic

Impersonating a Fact Checker

Impersonating a Fact Checker to spread fake fact checks makes people think it’s hard to get accurate information about the topic. It also exploits peoples’ existing faith in Fact Checkers to increase the probability that people believe posted content.

Posted byAdam M2nd April 20222nd April 2022Posted inTacticTags:Tactic

Influencers being paid to amplify inauthentic messages to their audience

Building an audience that will reliably read the content you post is difficult, so threat actors can pay others who have already built an audience to share what they’ve produced. This has the added benefit of appearing more authentic.

Posted byAdam M22nd March 202222nd March 2022Posted inDatabase Updates, TacticTags:Tactic

Using Whataboutism to avoid addressing accusations

To avoid addressing an accusation, the accused can return fire with a whataboutism; “You’re criticising my actions? But what about the bad actions you’ve taken?”, moving conversational focus on to the accuser’s imperfections.

Posted byAdam M13th March 202213th March 2022Posted inTacticTags:Tactic

Using AI Generated profile pictures in inauthentic Social Media accounts to appear more legitimate

People have made computer programs that can create realistic-looking pictures of people that don’t physically exist. Threat actors use these to make inauthentic social media accounts appear more legitimate.

Posted byAdam M5th March 20225th March 2022Posted inTactic, UncategorizedTags:Position, Tactic

Double checking an image’s source by Reverse Image Searching

One way you can double check the narrative being presented alongside an image is to use one of many free online tools to see if the same image can be found elsewhere on the internet.

Posted byAdam M3rd March 202228th March 2022Posted inMitigation, TacticTags:Mitigation, Tactic

Presenting legitimate media with false context to support a desired narrative

It can be hard to falsify a convincing piece of media, so one strategy used is to take real content and create a false context which matches the desired narrative.

Posted byAdam M26th February 20221st March 2022Posted inTacticTags:Tactic

Manufacturing a Tactical Infodemic to make true information harder to find

Let’s say there is someone who wants to find out about a topic, but you don’t want them to succeed. One way you could make it harder for them is to intentionally flood the pool of information surrounding said topic with false data.

Posted byAdam M29th January 202210th April 2022Posted inTacticTags:Tactic

Inauthentically Boosting Content to Trending Sections of Social Media Sites

Aggressors who want to engineer discussion around a topic can use inauthentic methods to get them trending. This helps expose more victims to narratives, and makes those narratives appear more popular than they are.

Posted byAdam M24th January 202224th January 2022Posted inTacticTags:Tactic

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