# Technique T0049: Flood Information Space

* **Summary**: Flooding sources of information (e.g. Social Media feeds) with a high volume of inauthentic content.

This can be done to control/shape online conversations, drown out opposing points of view, or make it harder to find legitimate information. 

Bots and/or patriotic trolls are effective tools to achieve this effect.

This Technique previously used the name Flooding the Information Space.

* **Belongs to tactic stage**: TA17


| Incident | Descriptions given for this incident |
| -------- | -------------------- |
| [I00033 China 50cent Army](../../generated_pages/incidents/I00033.md) | 2,000,000 people (est.) part of state run/sponsored astroturfing |
| [I00034 DibaFacebookExpedition](../../generated_pages/incidents/I00034.md) | flood the Facebook pages of Taiwanese politicians and news agencies with a pro-PRC message, Democratic Progressive Party (DPP), attracted nearly 40,000 Facebook comments in just eight hours. |



| Counters | Response types |
| -------- | -------------- |
| [C00131 Seize and analyse botnet servers](../../generated_pages/counters/C00131.md) | D02 |


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