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Incident I00002: #VaccinateUS

  • Summary: use both pro- and anti- topic messaging to create an artificial argument online.

  • incident type: campaign

  • Year started: 2014

  • Countries: Russia , World

  • Found via:

  • Date added: 2019-02-24

Technique Description given for this incident
T0017 Promote online funding IT00000002 Promote "funding" campaign
T0018 Paid targeted ads IT00000001 buy FB targeted ads
T0019 Generate information pollution IT00000003 create web-site - information pollution
T0046 Search Engine Optimization IT00000005 SEO optimisation/manipulation ("key words")
T0056 Dedicated channels disseminate information pollution IT00000004 create web-site - information pollution
T0058 Legacy web content IT00000006 legacy web content
T0058 Legacy web content IT00000007 hard to remove content and/or campaign/exploit TOS

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Actor: IRA, individuals (e.g. Larry Cook).

Timeframe:

Date:

Presumed goals: Physical damage to country?

Method:

  • Targetted facebook ads (Larry Cook, targetting Washington State mothers, $1,776 to boost posts over 9 months).
  • Gofundme campaigns to pay for ads (Larry Cook)

Effects:

  • “The U.S. anti-vax movement has been blamed for two outbreaks of measles that have infected some 300 people—mostly children—in New York and the Pacific Northwest.”

Counters:

  • American Medical Association “warned social-media giants, including Amazon, Facebook, Google, Pinterest, Twitter, and YouTube, that they were helping to amplify the propaganda and confuse parents.”
  • Gofundme banned antivaxxers: “Campaigns raising money to promote misinformation about vaccines violate GoFundMe’s terms of service and will be removed from the platform”. Less than 10 campaigns reported as removed.

Related incidents:

Artefacts:

Search terms vaccination, anti-vaccination, “vaccine choice”.

Notes:

Started by looking for vaccine-related content in my misinformation datasets Then did google search for “antivax misinformation” to get references etc. Larry Cook runs “Stop Mandatory Vaccination”: “donations go “directly” to his bank account and funds “may be used to pay [his] personal bills.”

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