M002: diversion
Summary: Create alternative channels, messages etc in disinformation-prone systems
| Counters in M002 | ||
| disarm_id | name | summary |
| C00029 | Create fake website to issue counter narrative and counter narrative through physical merchandise | Create websites in disinformation voids - spaces where people are looking for known disinformation. |
| C00030 | Develop a compelling counter narrative (truth based) | |
| C00032 | Hijack content and link to truth- based info | Link to platform |
| C00078 | Change Search Algorithms for Disinformation Content | Includes “change image search algorithms for hate groups and extremists” and “Change search algorithms for hate and extremist queries to show content sympathetic to opposite side” |
| C00080 | Create competing narrative | Create counternarratives, or narratives that compete in the same spaces as misinformation narratives. Could also be degrade |
| C00084 | Modify disinformation narratives, and rebroadcast them | Includes “poison pill recasting of message” and “steal their truths”. Many techniques involve promotion which could be manipulated. For example, online fundings or rallies could be advertised, through compromised or fake channels, as being associated with "far-up/down/left/right" actors. "Long Game" narratives could be subjected in a similar way with negative connotations. Can also replay technique T0003. |
| C00086 | Distract from noise with addictive content | Example: Interject addictive links or contents into discussions of disinformation materials and measure a "conversion rate" of users who engage with your content and away from the social media channel's "information bubble" around the disinformation item. Use bots to amplify and upvote the addictive content. |
| C00090 | Fake engagement system | Create honeypots for misinformation creators to engage with, and reduce the resources they have available for misinformation campaigns. |
| C00091 | Honeypot social community | Set honeypots, e.g. communities, in networks likely to be used for disinformation. |
| C00100 | Hashtag jacking | Post large volumes of unrelated content on known misinformation hashtags |
| C00103 | Create a bot that engages / distract trolls | This is reactive, not active measure (honeypots are active). It's a platform controlled measure. |
| C00106 | Click-bait centrist content | Create emotive centrist content that gets more clicks |
| C00195 | Redirect searches away from disinformation or extremist content | Use Google AdWords to identify instances in which people search Google about particular fake-news stories or propaganda themes. Includes Monetize centrist SEO by subsidizing the difference in greater clicks towards extremist content. |
| C00202 | Set data 'honeytraps' | Set honeytraps in content likely to be accessed for disinformation. |