The Price of Influence: Disinformation in the Private Sector

Minimalist · Sep 30, 2019

Insikt Group analyzed the operations of two threat actors who were offering disinformation as a service on Russian-speaking underground forums in order to understand the business model of how disinformation is used by cybercriminals, as opposed to nation-states. To do so, we created a fictitious company and commissioned two different threat actors to generate intentionally false narratives across the web.
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https://www.recordedfuture.com/disinformation-service-campaigns/

Minimalist · Oct 10, 2019

Rent-a-troll: Researchers pit disinformation farmers against each other

The same sorts of organizations that once made their money performing "black SEO"—using fraudulent means to raise paying customers' search engine ranks, often for illicit reasons—are now diving into a whole new sort of online manipulation. Researchers at security threat tracking company Recorded Future have found companies selling disinformation campaign capabilities similar to the ones used by Russian "troll factories" during the 2016 US presidential campaign and other state-sponsored information operations.
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https://arstechnica.com/information...-campaigns-not-just-for-state-actors-anymore/

Minimalist · Oct 11, 2019

“Troll Factory” turns disinformation campaigns into teaching game

Half of the battle against disinformation campaigns is educating people about how they work. And that's why the Finnish public broadcasting company Yle—Finland's equivalent of the BBC—has created a game called Troll Factory. The game, which recently won the European Journalism Centre and Google News Initiative's Global Youth and News Media Prize for promoting media literacy, puts the player in the role of a disinformation operative working for an Internet Research Agency-like organization with an anti-immigrant agenda.
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https://arstechnica.com/information...-disinformation-campaigns-into-teaching-game/

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