# Counter C00012: Platform regulation

* **Summary**: Empower existing regulators to govern social media. Also covers Destroy.  Includes: Include the role of social media in the regulatory framework for media - The European Union created significant new regulations in 2018; the U.S. approach will need to be carefully crafted to protect First Amendment principles, create needed transparency, ensure liability, and impose costs for noncompliance. Includes Create policy that makes social media police disinformation - example: German model: facebook forced to police content by law. Includes: Use fraud legislation to clean up social media

* **Playbooks**: 

* **Metatechnique**: M007 - metatechnique

* **Resources needed:** 

* **Belongs to tactic stage**: TA01


| Actor types | Sectors |
| ----------- | ------- |
| [A018 government ](../generated_pages/actortypes/A018.md) | S003 |
| [A020 policy maker](../generated_pages/actortypes/A020.md) | S003 |
| [A033 social media platform owner](../generated_pages/actortypes/A033.md) | S007 |



| Counters these Tactics |
| ---------------------- |



| Counters these Techniques |
| ------------------------- |
| [T0001 5Ds (dismiss, distort, distract, dismay, divide)](../generated_pages/techniques/T0001.md) |
| [T0056 Dedicated channels disseminate information pollution](../generated_pages/techniques/T0056.md) |
| [T0055 Use hashtag](../generated_pages/techniques/T0055.md) |
| [T0054 Twitter bots amplify](../generated_pages/techniques/T0054.md) |
| [T0053 Twitter trolls amplify and manipulate](../generated_pages/techniques/T0053.md) |
| [T0052 Tertiary sites amplify news](../generated_pages/techniques/T0052.md) |
| [T0051 Fabricate social media comment](../generated_pages/techniques/T0051.md) |
| [T0050 Cheerleading domestic social media ops](../generated_pages/techniques/T0050.md) |
| [T0049 Flooding](../generated_pages/techniques/T0049.md) |
| [T0048 Cow online opinion leaders](../generated_pages/techniques/T0048.md) |
| [T0047 Muzzle social media as a political force](../generated_pages/techniques/T0047.md) |
| [T0046 Search Engine Optimization](../generated_pages/techniques/T0046.md) |
| [T0045 Use fake experts](../generated_pages/techniques/T0045.md) |
| [T0043 Use SMS/ WhatsApp/ Chat apps](../generated_pages/techniques/T0043.md) |
| [T0026 Create pseudoscientific or disingenuous research](../generated_pages/techniques/T0026.md) |
| [T0025 Leak altered documents](../generated_pages/techniques/T0025.md) |
| [T0024 Create fake videos and images](../generated_pages/techniques/T0024.md) |
| [T0022 Conspiracy narratives](../generated_pages/techniques/T0022.md) |
| [T0021 Memes](../generated_pages/techniques/T0021.md) |
| [T0018 Purchase advertisements](../generated_pages/techniques/T0018.md) |
| [T0017 Conduct Fundraising Campaigns](../generated_pages/techniques/T0017.md) |
| [T0016 Clickbait](../generated_pages/techniques/T0016.md) |
| [T0015 Create hashtags](../generated_pages/techniques/T0015.md) |
| [T0014 Prepare fundraising campaigns](../generated_pages/techniques/T0014.md) |
| [T0013 Create fake websites](../generated_pages/techniques/T0013.md) |
| [T0009 Create fake experts](../generated_pages/techniques/T0009.md) |
| [T0008 Create fake or imposter news sites](../generated_pages/techniques/T0008.md) |
| [T0007 Create fake Social Media Profiles / Pages / Groups](../generated_pages/techniques/T0007.md) |
| [T0003 Leverage Existing Narratives](../generated_pages/techniques/T0003.md) |
| [T0002 Facilitate State Propaganda](../generated_pages/techniques/T0002.md) |
| [T0057 Organise remote rallies and events](../generated_pages/techniques/T0057.md) |
| [T0061 Sell merchandising](../generated_pages/techniques/T0061.md) |



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