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	2,000,000 people (est.) part of state run/sponsored astroturfing
I00034 DibaFacebookExpedition	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	D02
C00016 Censorship	D02
C00044 Keep people from posting to social media immediately	D03
C00072 Remove non-relevant content from special interest groups - not recommended	D02
C00074 Identify and delete or rate limit identical content	D02
C00085 Mute content	D03
C00086 Distract from noise with addictive content	D04
C00087 Make more noise than the disinformation	D04
C00091 Honeypot social community	D05
C00101 Create friction by rate-limiting engagement	D04
C00122 Content moderation	D02
C00123 Remove or rate limit botnets	D03
C00128 Create friction by marking content with ridicule or other "decelerants"	D03
C00131 Seize and analyse botnet servers	D02
C00153 Take pre-emptive action against actors' infrastructure	D03
C00176 Improve Coordination amongst stakeholders: public and private	D07

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