AMITT/techniques/T0052.md

Technique T0052: Tertiary sites amplify news

• Summary: Create content/news/opinion web-sites to cross-post stories. Tertiary sites circulate and amplify narratives. Often these sites have no masthead, bylines or attribution.

Examples of tertiary sites include Russia Insider, The Duran, geopolitica.ru, Mint Press News, Oriental Review, globalresearch.ca. Examples: (2019, Domestic news): Snopes reveals Star News Digital Media, Inc. may look like a media company that produces local news, but operates via undisclosed connections to political activism. (2018) FireEye reports on Iranian campaign that created between April 2018 and March 2019 sites used to spread inauthentic content from websites such as Liberty Front Press (LFP), US Journal, and Real Progressive Front during the 2018 US mid-terms.

• Belongs to tactic stage: TA09

Incident	Descriptions given for this incident
I00009 PhilippinesExpert	News circulated/amplifed by tertiary sites (Russia Insider, The Duran, Geopolitica.ru, Mint Press News, Oriental Review, globalresearch.ca)
I00029 MH17 investigation	News circulated/amplifed by tertiary sites (Russia Insider, The Duran, Geopolitica.ru, Mint Press News, Oriental Review, globalresearch.ca)
I00049 White Helmets: Chemical Weapons	News circulated/amplifed by tertiary sites (Russia Insider, The Duran, Geopolitica.ru, Mint Press News, Oriental Review, globalresearch.ca)
I00050 #HandsOffVenezuela	News circulated/amplifed by tertiary sites (Mint Press News, globalresearch.ca)
I00063 Olympic Doping Scandal	News circulated/amplifed by tertiary sites (Russia Insider, The Duran, Geopolitica.ru, Mint Press News, Oriental Review, globalresearch.ca)

Counters	Response types
C00009 Educate high profile influencers on best practices	D2 Deny
C00012 Platform regulation	D2 Deny
C00013 Rating framework for news	D2 Deny
C00016 Censorship	D2 Deny
C00019 Reduce effect of division-enablers	D3 Disrupt
C00046 Marginalise and discredit extremist groups	D4 Degrade
C00048 Name and Shame Influencers	D7 Deter
C00070 Block access to disinformation resources	D2 Deny
C00074 Identify and delete or rate limit identical content	D2 Deny
C00078 Change Search Algorithms for Disinformation Content	D3 Disrupt
C00085 Mute content	D3 Disrupt
C00087 Make more noise than the disinformation	D4 Degrade
C00115 Expose actor and intentions	D2 Deny
C00120 Open dialogue about design of platforms to produce different outcomes	D7 Deter
C00122 Content moderation	D2 Deny
C00125 Prebunking	D3 Disrupt
C00126 Social media amber alert	D3 Disrupt
C00128 Create friction by marking content with ridicule or other "decelerants"	D3 Disrupt
C00153 Take pre-emptive action against actors' infrastructure	D3 Disrupt
C00162 Unravel/target the Potemkin villages	D3 Disrupt
C00176 Improve Coordination amongst stakeholders: public and private	D7 Deter
C00203 Stop offering press credentials to propaganda outlets	D3 Disrupt

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