T0053.md

Technique T0053: Twitter trolls amplify and manipulate

• Summary: Use trolls to amplify narratives and/or manipulate narratives. Fake profiles/sockpuppets operating to support individuals/narratives from the entire political spectrum (left/right binary). Operating with increased emphasis on promoting local content and promoting real Twitter users generating their own, often divisive political content, as it's easier to amplify existing content than create new/original content. Trolls operate where ever there's a socially divisive issue (issues that can/are be politicized).

• Belongs to tactic stage: TA09

Incident	Descriptions given for this incident
I00005 Brexit vote	Twitter trolls amplify & manipulate
I00007 Incirlik terrorists	Twitter trolls amplify & manipulate
I00010 ParklandTeens	Twitter trolls amplify & manipulate
I00017 US presidential elections	Twitter trolls amplify & manipulate
I00022 #Macronleaks	Twitter trolls amplify & manipulate
I00029 MH17 investigation	Twitter trolls amplify & manipulate
I00032 Kavanaugh	Twitter trolls amplify & manipulate
I00044 JadeHelm exercise	Twitter trolls amplify & manipulate
I00047 Sea of Azov	Twitter trolls amplify & manipulate
I00049 White Helmets: Chemical Weapons	Twitter trolls amplify & manipulate
I00050 #HandsOffVenezuela	Twitter trolls amplify & manipulate
I00051 Integrity Initiative	Twitter trolls amplify & manipulate
I00056 Iran Influence Operations	Twitter trolls amplify & manipulate
I00063 Olympic Doping Scandal	Twitter trolls amplify & manipulate

Counters	Response types
C00006 Charge for social media	D02
C00009 Educate high profile influencers on best practices	D02
C00012 Platform regulation	D02
C00016 Censorship	D02
C00019 Reduce effect of division-enablers	D03
C00021 Encourage in-person communication	D04
C00022 Innoculate. Positive campaign to promote feeling of safety	D04
C00024 Promote healthy narratives	D04
C00027 Create culture of civility	D07
C00044 Keep people from posting to social media immediately	D03
C00046 Marginalise and discredit extremist groups	D04
C00048 Name and Shame Influencers	D07
C00073 Inoculate populations through media literacy training	D02
C00074 Identify and delete or rate limit identical content	D02
C00081 Highlight flooding and noise, and explain motivations	D03
C00082 Ground truthing as automated response to pollution	D03
C00085 Mute content	D03
C00086 Distract from noise with addictive content	D04
C00087 Make more noise than the disinformation	D04
C00091 Honeypot social community	D05
C00092 Establish a truth teller reputation score for influencers	D07
C00093 Influencer code of conduct	D07
C00097 Require use of verified identities to contribute to poll or comment	D02
C00101 Create friction by rate-limiting engagement	D04
C00103 Create a bot that engages / distract trolls	D05
C00115 Expose actor and intentions	D02
C00120 Open dialogue about design of platforms to produce different outcomes	D07
C00122 Content moderation	D02
C00124 Don't feed the trolls	D03
C00125 Prebunking	D03
C00126 Social media amber alert	D03
C00128 Create friction by marking content with ridicule or other "decelerants"	D03
C00144 Buy out troll farm employees / offer them jobs	D04
C00153 Take pre-emptive action against actors' infrastructure	D03
C00176 Improve Coordination amongst stakeholders: public and private	D07

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