# Counter C00048: Name and Shame Influencers

* **Summary**: Think about the different levels: individual vs state-sponsored account. Includes “call them out” and “name and shame”. Identify social media accounts as sources of propaganda—“calling them out”— might be helpful to prevent the spread of their message to audiences that otherwise would consider them factual. Identify, monitor, and, if necessary, target externally-based nonattributed social media accounts. Impact of and Dealing with Trolls - "Chatham House has observed that trolls also sometimes function as decoys, as a way of “keeping the infantry busy” that “aims to wear down the other side” (Lough et al., 2014). Another type of troll involves “false accounts posing as authoritative information sources on social media”.

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* **Metatechnique**: M003 - Daylight

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* **Belongs to tactic stage**: TA15


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| [T0010 Cultivate Ignorant Agents](../../generated_pages/techniques/T0010.md) |



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