Incident I00009: PhilippinesExpert

Summary: President of the Philippine visited Moscow and forged ties on information strategy in 2017, and afterwards a series of disinformation campaign was noted in Philippine social media and mainstream media, mostly in favor of Philippine president and promoting Russian propaganda. Among this is the appearance of an unknown-before expert on global affairs who was cited frequently in Russian IRA-connected outlets.
incident type: incident
Year started: 2017
Countries: Russia , Philippines
Found via:
Date added: 2019-02-24

Technique	Description given for this incident
T0007 Create fake Social Media Profiles / Pages / Groups	I00009T003 FB pages
T0019 Generate information pollution	I00009T002 RT & Sputnik generate information pollution
T0045 Use fake experts	I00009T001 Using "expert"
T0052 Tertiary sites amplify news	I00009T004 News circulated/amplifed by tertiary sites (Russia Insider, The Duran, Geopolitica.ru, Mint Press News, Oriental Review, globalresearch.ca)
T0056 Dedicated channels disseminate information pollution	I00009T002 RT & Sputnik generate information pollution

DO NOT EDIT ABOVE THIS LINE - PLEASE ADD NOTES BELOW

Suspected actors:

Attacker: IRA or more broadly Russian state-sponsored disinformation campaign.
Amplifiers: through the persona of “Adam Garrie” (who first appeared on RT (Russian Today) and pro-Russia sites, with no background in Asia and Philippine affairs but suddenly rose to become a global affairs expert).
Garrie was then promoted by pro-Duterte officials, social media pages and news outlets.

Timeframe: After Putin and Philippine’s president Duterte met in Russia in May 2017 and forged a partnership in information dissemination. Duterte and Putin signed a number of national security agreements, including a deal on intelligence sharing, an “MOU on Cooperation in Mass Communications.”

Date: 2017- ongoing

Presumed goals:

To spread pro-Duterte and Russian propaganda through collaborative effort of both Philippine and Russian disinformation actors.

Method:

Footprint of Garrie on the Philippine media scene started from his connection with Russian IRA websites and pages (GI Analytics Facebook page, Russia Insider, The Duran, Geopolitica.ru, Mint Press News, Oriental Review, globalresearch.ca.)
RT, one of media outlets that interviewed Garrie, was identified by the US Office of the Director of National Intelligence in January 2017 as the primary source of propaganda that the Russians used to further their interests in the 2016 US elections.
Also has appearance on Iran’s IRIB (Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting), which was identified by the US Department of the Treasury in 2013 as a network that broadcasts false reports and forced confessions of political detainees and has ties with “politically motivated phishing” accounts on Google.
The Daily Sentry, a Philippine news site emerged at the start of 2018 (no ownership information), started citing Adam Garrie as a global expert after Philippine-Russian ties grew stronger. Between Feb 2018 and Jan 2019, The Daily Sentry cited Garrie in 41% of posts on Facebook that mentioned experts.
By March 2018, Garrie started to come to the mainstream: The Manila Times – a supporter outlet of the Philippine president, cited by pro-Duterte social media pages.
Philippine online groups and pages began to spread Russian propaganda. Some sites link to Duterte officials and supporters including Duterte’s former assistant secretary. For example, Duterte’s former assistant secretary shared content from Trending News Portal site.

Counters:

Facebook took down 220 pages and 73 Philippine accounts for spam, including pages of The Daily Sentry and its affiliates, TNP page and related pages.

Related incidents:

References:

4.8 KiB Исходник Ответственный История Убрать экранирование Экранировать

Incident I00009: PhilippinesExpert

4.8 KiB

Исходник Ответственный История