# 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 |
| -------- | -------------- |
| [C00055 Empower existing regulators to govern social media](../counters/C00055.md) | D2 Deny |
| [C00123 Bot control](../counters/C00123.md) | D3 Disrupt |


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