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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
C00131 Seize and analyse botnet servers D02

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