Technique T0002: Facilitate State Propaganda

Summary: Organize citizens around pro-state messaging. Paid or volunteer groups coordinated to push state propaganda (examples include 2016 Diba Facebook Expedition, coordinated to overcome China’s Great Firewall, to flood the Facebook pages of Taiwanese politicians and news agencies with a pro-PRC message).
Belongs to tactic stage: TA01

Incident	Descriptions given for this incident
I00033 China 50cent Army	facilitate state propaganda and defuse crises
I00034 DibaFacebookExpedition	Netizens from one of the largest discussion forums in China, known as Diba, coordinated to overcome China’s Great Firewall

Counters	Response types
C00022 Innoculate. Positive campaign to promote feeling of safety - to counter ability and fear based attacks	D4 Degrade
C00026 Shore up democracy based messages (peace, freedom) - make it sexy	D4 Degrade
C00031 Dilute the core narrative - create multiple permutations, target / amplify	D3 Disrupt
C00055 Empower existing regulators to govern social media	D2 Deny
C00088 Poison pill recasting of message	D4 Degrade

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