AMITT/techniques/T0044.md

Seed distortions

• Type: Technique

• Name: Seed distortions

• Id: T0044

• Summary: Incident creators often try a wide variety of messages in the early hours surrounding an incident or event in order to give a misleading account or impression.

Examples: (2019) China formally arrests Canadians Spavor and Kovrig, accuses them of spying (in retaliation to detention of Hauwei CFO). (2018) The Russian ministry of defence put out a press release, claiming that they had intelligence Syrian rebel forces were about to gas their own people in Idlib province as part of a “false flag” operation to frame the Syrian government.

• Tactic: TA08

• Incidents:

Incident	Descriptions given for this incident
I00015 ConcordDiscovery	Circulate to media via DM, then release publicly

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