# Technique T0049: Flood Information Space

* **Summary**: Flooding sources of information (e.g. Social Media feeds) with a high volume of inauthentic content.<br /> <br />This can be done to control/shape online conversations, drown out opposing points of view, or make it harder to find legitimate information.<br /> <br />Bots and/or patriotic trolls are effective tools to achieve this effect.<br /> <br />This Technique previously used the name Flooding the Information Space.

* **Belongs to tactic stage**: TA17


| Incident | Descriptions given for this incident |
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| Counters | Response types |
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| [C00131 Seize and analyse botnet servers](../../generated_pages/counters/C00131.md) | D02 |


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