# Technique T0025: Generate information pollution

* **Summary**: Flood social channels; drive traffic/engagement to all assets; create aura/sense/perception of pervasiveness/consensus (for or against or both simultaneously) of an issue or topic. "Nothing is true, but everything is possible." Akin to astroturfing campaign.

* **Belongs to tactic stage**: TA06


| Incident | Descriptions given for this incident |
| -------- | -------------------- |
| [I00015 ConcordDiscovery](../generated_pages/incidents/I00015.md) | Forge ('release' altered hacked documents), hack/leak/manipulate/distort |
| [I00017 US presidential elections](../generated_pages/incidents/I00017.md) | hack/leak/manipulate/distort |
| [I00022 #Macronleaks](../generated_pages/incidents/I00022.md) | hack/leak/manipulate/distort |
| [I00051 Integrity Initiative](../generated_pages/incidents/I00051.md) | hack/leak/manipulate/distort |



| 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 |
| [C00073 Inoculate populations through media literacy training](../generated_pages/counters/C00073.md) | D02 |
| [C00074 Identify and delete or rate limit identical content](../generated_pages/counters/C00074.md) | D02 |
| [C00082 Ground truthing as automated response to pollution](../generated_pages/counters/C00082.md) | D03 |
| [C00085 Mute content](../generated_pages/counters/C00085.md) | D03 |
| [C00096 Strengthen institutions that are always truth tellers](../generated_pages/counters/C00096.md) | D07 |
| [C00107 Content moderation](../generated_pages/counters/C00107.md) | D02 |
| [C00117 Downgrade / de-amplify so message is seen by fewer people](../generated_pages/counters/C00117.md) | D04 |
| [C00119 Engage payload and debunk.](../generated_pages/counters/C00119.md) | D07 |
| [C00122 Content moderation](../generated_pages/counters/C00122.md) | D02 |
| [C00165 Ensure integrity of official documents](../generated_pages/counters/C00165.md) | D02 |
| [C00176 Improve Coordination amongst stakeholders: public and private](../generated_pages/counters/C00176.md) | D07 |
| [C00190 open engagement with civil society](../generated_pages/counters/C00190.md) | D03 |
| [C00195 Redirect searches away from disinformation or extremist content ](../generated_pages/counters/C00195.md) | D02 |
| [C00200 Respected figure (influencer) disavows misinfo](../generated_pages/counters/C00200.md) | D03 |
| [C00202 Set data 'honeytraps'](../generated_pages/counters/C00202.md) | D02 |
| [C00205 strong dialogue between the federal government and private sector to encourage better reporting](../generated_pages/counters/C00205.md) | D03 |
| [C00211 Use humorous counter-narratives](../generated_pages/counters/C00211.md) | D03 |
| [C00219 Add metadata to content that’s out of the control of disinformation creators](../generated_pages/counters/C00219.md) | D04 |


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