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Flooding
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Type: Technique
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Name: Flooding
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Id: T0049
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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.
Example (2018): bots flood social media promoting messages which support Saudi Arabia with intent to cast doubt on allegations that the kingdom was involved in Khashoggi’s death.
- Tactic: TA09
| Incident | Descriptions given for this incident |
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| 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 |
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| C00044 Keep people from posting to social media immediately |
| C00123 Bot control |
| C00131 Seize and analyse botnet servers |
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