# Technique T0051: Chat apps

* **Summary**: Direct messaging via chat app is an increasing method of delivery. These messages are often automated and new delivery and storage methods make them anonymous, viral, and ephemeral. This is a difficult space to monitor, but also a difficult space to build acclaim or notoriety.

* **Belongs to tactic stage**: TA07


| Incident | Descriptions given for this incident |
| -------- | -------------------- |
| [I00033 China 50cent Army](../generated_pages/incidents/I00033.md) | fabricated social media comment |



| Counters | Response types |
| -------- | -------------- |
| [C00008 Create shared fact-checking database](../generated_pages/counters/C00008.md) | D04 |
| [C00011 Media literacy. Games to identify fake news](../generated_pages/counters/C00011.md) | D02 |
| [C00012 Platform regulation](../generated_pages/counters/C00012.md) | D02 |
| [C00014 Real-time updates to fact-checking database](../generated_pages/counters/C00014.md) | D04 |
| [C00016 Censorship](../generated_pages/counters/C00016.md) | D02 |
| [C00044 Keep people from posting to social media immediately](../generated_pages/counters/C00044.md) | D03 |
| [C00046 Marginalise and discredit extremist groups](../generated_pages/counters/C00046.md) | D04 |
| [C00048 Name and Shame Influencers](../generated_pages/counters/C00048.md) | D07 |
| [C00074 Identify and delete or rate limit identical content](../generated_pages/counters/C00074.md) | D02 |
| [C00085 Mute content](../generated_pages/counters/C00085.md) | D03 |
| [C00086 Distract from noise with addictive content](../generated_pages/counters/C00086.md) | D04 |
| [C00087 Make more noise than the disinformation](../generated_pages/counters/C00087.md) | D04 |
| [C00122 Content moderation](../generated_pages/counters/C00122.md) | D02 |
| [C00176 Improve Coordination amongst stakeholders: public and private](../generated_pages/counters/C00176.md) | D07 |


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