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While presenting as a fact checking organisation is not an indication of inauthentic behaviour, an influence operation may have its narratives amplified by fact checking organisations. Threat actors can fabricate fact checking organisations (T0143.002: Fabricated Persona, T0097.202: News Outlet Persona), or they can impersonate existing fact checking outlets (T0143.003: Impersonated Persona, T0097.202: News Outlet Persona).

Legitimate fact checking organisations could use their persona for malicious purposes, or be exploited by threat actors (T0143.001: Authentic Persona, T0097.202: News Outlet Persona).

Associated Techniques and Sub-techniques
T0097.102: Journalist Persona: Institutions presenting as fact checking organisations may also present journalists working within the organisation.
T0097.202: News Outlet Persona: Fact checking organisations may present as operating as part of a larger news outlet (e.g. The UK\u2019s BBC News has the fact checking service BBC Verify). When an actor presents as the fact checking arm of a news outlet, they are presenting both a News Outlet Persona and a Fact Checking Organisation Persona.", "kill_chain_phases": [ { "kill_chain_name": "mitre-attack", "phase_name": "establish-legitimacy" } ], "external_references": [ { "source_name": "mitre-attack", "url": "https://github.com/DISARMFoundation/DISARMframeworks/blob/main/generated_pages/techniques/T0097.203.md", "external_id": "T0097.203" } ], "object_marking_refs": [ "marking-definition--f79f25d2-8b96-4580-b169-eb7b613a7c31" ], "x_mitre_is_subtechnique": true, "x_mitre_platforms": [ "Windows", "Linux", "Mac" ], "x_mitre_version": "2.1" } ] }