AMITT/techniques/T0051.md

Technique T0051: Fabricate social media comment

• Summary: Use government-paid social media commenters, astroturfers, chat bots (programmed to reply to specific key words/hashtags) influence online conversations, product reviews, web-site comment forums. (2017 example) the FCC was inundated with nearly 22 million public comments on net neutrality (many from fake accounts)

• Belongs to tactic stage: TA09

Incident	Descriptions given for this incident
I00033 China 50cent Army	fabricated social media comment

Counters	Response types
C00055 Empower existing regulators to govern social media	D2 Deny
C00123 Bot control	D3 Disrupt

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