AMITT/techniques/T0022.md

Technique T0022: Conspiracy narratives

• Summary: "Conspiracy narratives appeal to the human desire for explanatory order, by invoking the participation of poweful (often sinister) actors in pursuit of their own political goals. These narratives are especially appealing when an audience is low-information, marginalized or otherwise inclined to reject the prevailing explanation. Conspiracy narratives are an important component of the ""firehose of falsehoods"" model.

Example: QAnon: conspiracy theory is an explanation of an event or situation that invokes a conspiracy by sinister and powerful actors, often political in motivation, when other explanations are more probable "

• Belongs to tactic stage: TA06

Incident	Descriptions given for this incident
I00056 Iran Influence Operations	Memes... anti-Isreal/USA/West, conspiracy narratives

Counters	Response types
C00006 Charge for social media	D2 Deny
C00006 Censorship	D2 Deny
C00012 Platform regulation	D2 Deny
C00024 Promote healthy narratives	D4 Degrade
C00027 Create culture of civility	D7 Deter
C00042 Address truth contained in narratives	D3 Disrupt
C00072 Remove non-relevant content from special interest groups – not recommended	D2 Deny
C00073 Inoculate populations through media literacy training	D2 Deny
C00074 Identify and delete or rate limit identical content	D2 Deny
C00080 Create competing narrative	D3 Disrupt
C00081 Highlight flooding and noise, and explain motivations	D3 Disrupt
C00082 Ground truthing as automated response to pollution	D3 Disrupt
C00084 Modify disinformation narratives, and rebroadcast them	D3 Disrupt
C00085 Mute content	D3 Disrupt
C00096 Strengthen institutions that are always truth tellers	D7 Deter
C00107 Content moderation	D2 Deny
C00117 Downgrade / de-amplify so message is seen by fewer people	D4 Degrade
C00119 Engage payload and debunk.	D7 Deter
C00122 Content moderation	D2 Deny
C00125 Prebunking	D3 Disrupt
C00126 Social media amber alert	D3 Disrupt
C00156 Better tell your country or organization story	D3 Disrupt
C00161 Coalition Building with stakeholders and Third-Party Inducements	D7 Deter
C00162 Unravel/target the Potemkin villages	D3 Disrupt
C00164 compatriot policy	D3 Disrupt
C00169 develop a creative content hub	D3 Disrupt
C00174 Create a healthier news environment	D2 Deny
C00176 Improve Coordination amongst stakeholders: public and private	D7 Deter
C00188 Newsroom/Journalist training to counter influence moves	D3 Disrupt
C00190 open engagement with civil society	D3 Disrupt
C00195 Redirect searches away from disinformation or extremist content	D2 Deny
C00200 Respected figure (influencer) disavows misinfo	D3 Disrupt
C00203 Stop offering press credentials to propaganda outlets	D3 Disrupt
C00205 strong dialogue between the federal government and private sector to encourage better reporting	D3 Disrupt
C00211 Use humorous counter-narratives	D3 Disrupt
C00212 build public resilience by making civil society more vibrant	D3 Disrupt

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