AMITT/techniques/T0008.md

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Create fake or imposter news sites

  • Type: Technique

  • Name: Create fake or imposter news sites

  • Id: T0008

  • Summary: Modern computational propaganda makes use of a cadre of imposter news sites spreading globally. These sites, sometimes motivated by concerns other than propaganda--for instance, click-based revenue--often have some superficial markers of authenticity, such as naming and site-design. But many can be quickly exposed with reference to their owenership, reporting history and adverstising details. A prominent case from the 2016 era was the Denver Guardian, which purported to be a local newspaper in Colorado and specialized in negative stories about Hillary Clinton.

  • Tactic: TA03

  • Incidents:

Incident Descriptions given for this incident
I00056 Iran Influence Operations Fake news/synthetic web-sites

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