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"description": "An institution with a news outlet persona presents itself as an organisation which delivers new information to its target audience.
While presenting as a news outlet is not an indication of inauthentic behaviour, an influence operation may have its narratives amplified by news organisations. Threat actors can fabricate news organisations (T0143.002: Fabricated Persona, T0097.202: News Outlet Persona), or they can impersonate existing news outlets (T0143.003: Impersonated Persona, T0097.202: News Outlet Persona).
Legitimate news 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 news outlets may also present journalists working within the organisation.
T0097.201: Local Institution Persona: Institutions presenting as news outlets may present as being a local news outlet.
T0097.203: Fact Checking Organisation Persona: Institutions presenting as news outlets may also deliver a fact checking service (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.",
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"phase_name": "establish-legitimacy"
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"url": "https://github.com/DISARMFoundation/DISARMframeworks/blob/main/generated_pages/techniques/T0097.202.md",
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