# Technique T0081.008: Identify Media System Vulnerabilities

* **Summary**: An influence operation may exploit existing weaknesses in a target’s media system. These  weaknesses may include existing biases among media agencies, vulnerability to false news  agencies on social media, or existing distrust of traditional media sources. An existing distrust  among the public in the media system’s credibility holds high potential for exploitation by an  influence operation when establishing alternative news agencies to spread operation content. 

* **Belongs to tactic stage**: TA13


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