# Technique T0049: Flooding the Information Space

* **Summary**: Flooding and/or mobbing social media channels feeds and/or hashtag with excessive volume of content to control/shape online conversations and/or drown out opposing points of view. Bots and/or patriotic trolls are effective tools to acheive this effect.

* **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 |
| -------- | -------------- |
| [C00012 Platform regulation](../generated_pages/counters/C00012.md) | D02 |
| [C00016 Censorship](../generated_pages/counters/C00016.md) | D02 |
| [C00044 Keep people from posting to social media immediately](../generated_pages/counters/C00044.md) | D03 |
| [C00072 Remove non-relevant content from special interest groups - not recommended](../generated_pages/counters/C00072.md) | D02 |
| [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 |
| [C00091 Honeypot social community](../generated_pages/counters/C00091.md) | D05 |
| [C00101 Create friction by rate-limiting engagement](../generated_pages/counters/C00101.md) | D04 |
| [C00122 Content moderation](../generated_pages/counters/C00122.md) | D02 |
| [C00123 Remove or rate limit botnets](../generated_pages/counters/C00123.md) | D03 |
| [C00128 Create friction by marking content with ridicule or other "decelerants"](../generated_pages/counters/C00128.md) | D03 |
| [C00131 Seize and analyse botnet servers](../generated_pages/counters/C00131.md) | D02 |
| [C00153 Take pre-emptive action against actors' infrastructure](../generated_pages/counters/C00153.md) | D03 |
| [C00176 Improve Coordination amongst stakeholders: public and private](../generated_pages/counters/C00176.md) | D07 |


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