Technique T0008: Create fake or imposter news sites

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.
Belongs to tactic stage: TA03

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

Counters	Response types
C00008 Create shared fact-checking database	D2 Deny
C00014 Real-time updates to fact-checking database	D2 Deny
C00053 Delete old accounts / Remove unused social media accounts	D4 Degrade
C00070 Block access to platform. DDOS an attacker.	D2 Deny

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