# Technique T0051: Fabricate social media comment

* **Summary**: Use government-paid social media commenters, astroturfers, chat bots (programmed to reply to specific key words/hashtags) influence online conversations, product reviews, web-site comment forums. (2017 example) the FCC was inundated with nearly 22 million public comments on net neutrality (many from fake accounts)

* **Belongs to tactic stage**: TA09


| Incident | Descriptions given for this incident |
| -------- | -------------------- |
| [I00033 China 50cent Army](../incidents/I00033.md) | fabricated social media comment |



| Counters | Response types |
| -------- | -------------- |
| [C00008 Create shared fact-checking database](../counters/C00008.md) | D4 Degrade |
| [C00011 Media literacy. Games to identify fake news](../counters/C00011.md) | D2 Deny |
| [C00012 Platform regulation](../counters/C00012.md) | D2 Deny |
| [C00014 Real-time updates to fact-checking database](../counters/C00014.md) | D4 Degrade |
| [C00016 Censorship](../counters/C00016.md) | D2 Deny |
| [C00044 Keep people from posting to social media immediately](../counters/C00044.md) | D3 Disrupt |
| [C00046 Marginalise and discredit extremist groups](../counters/C00046.md) | D4 Degrade |
| [C00048 Name and Shame Influencers](../counters/C00048.md) | D7 Deter |
| [C00074 Identify and delete or rate limit identical content](../counters/C00074.md) | D2 Deny |
| [C00085 Mute content](../counters/C00085.md) | D3 Disrupt |
| [C00086 Distract from noise with addictive content](../counters/C00086.md) | D4 Degrade |
| [C00087 Make more noise than the disinformation](../counters/C00087.md) | D4 Degrade |
| [C00122 Content moderation](../counters/C00122.md) | D2 Deny |
| [C00176 Improve Coordination amongst stakeholders: public and private](../counters/C00176.md) | D7 Deter |


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