AMITT/amitt_blue_framework.md
Sara-Jayne Terp ca08d63fdb Updated the TA01 Strategic Planning counters
Team has been triaging counters using a github project.  These are the changes to TA01:

- Add C00220: develop a monitoring and intelligence plan
- C00159: change title
- Add C00221: run a disinformation red team, and design mitigation factors
- C00176: change title
- Merge C00055 into C00012
- Merge C00057 into C00010
- C0006: update notes
- C00153: change title
- C00017: change title
- Merge C00023 into C00027
- Merge C00025 and C00024, change title to "promote healthy narratives"
- Merge C00018 and C00019, change title to "reduce effect of division-enablers"
- C00026 - change title
- C00022 - change title
- Merge C00020 , C00174, C00157, change title to "create a healthier news environment"
- Merge C00007 into C00013, edit title
- Move C00008 to Degrade
- Merge C00033, C00054, C00061, C00049 into C00073
- C00016 - change title
- Delete C00001: Better models of info spread up the layers
- Delete C00004: Managing like a chronic disease
- Delete C00003: How can we safeguard against extremists using the tools that we will produce?
- Delete C00005: Policy: makers, terminology, elements: a) broad, b) specific

TA01 now contains techniques [6, 8, 10, 12, 13, 15, 16, 17, 19, 21, 22, 24, 26, 27, 73, 153, 159, 161, 170, 174, 176, 205, 220, 221]
2021-02-24 21:02:41 +00:00

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AMITT Blue: Latest Framework

TA01 Strategic Planning TA02 Objective Planning TA03 Develop People TA04 Develop Networks TA05 Microtargeting TA06 Develop Content TA07 Channel Selection TA08 Pump Priming TA09 Exposure TA10 Go Physical TA11 Persistence TA12 Measure Effectiveness
C00006 Charge for social media C00009 Educate high profile influencers on best practices C00034 Create more friction at account creation C00050 Anti-elicitation training C00063 Ban political microtargeting C00014 Real-time updates to fact-checking database C00097 Require use of verified identities to contribute to poll or comment C00112 "Prove they are not an op!" C00122 Content moderation. Censorship? C00129 Use banking to cut off access C00131 Seize and analyse botnet servers C00147 Make amplification of social media ports expire (e.g. can't like/ retweet after n days)
C00008 Create shared fact-checking database C00011 Media literacy. Games to identify fake news C00035 Friction C00051 Phishing prevention education etc C00065 Ban political ads C00070 Block access to platform. DDOS an attacker. C00098 Revocation of "verified" C00113 Debunk and defuse a fake expert / credentials. Attack audience quality of fake expert C00123 Bot control C00130 Mentorship: elders, youth, credit. Learn vicariously. C00133 Deplatform Account* C00148 Add random links to network graphs
C00010 Enhanced privacy regulation for social media C00028 Blockchain audit log and validation with collaborative decryption to post comments C00036 Infiltrate the in-group to discredit leaders (divide) C00052 Infiltrate platforms C00066 Co-opt a hashtag and drown it out (hijack it back) C00071 Block source of pollution C00099 Strengthen verification methods C00114 Don't engage with payloads C00124 Don't feed the trolls C00135 Deplatform message groups and/or message boards C00149 Poison the monitoring & evaluation data
C00012 Platform regulation C00029 Create fake website to issue counter narrative and counter narrative through physical merchandise C00039 Standard reporting for false profiles C00053 Delete old accounts / Remove unused social media accounts C00067 Denigrate the recipient/ project (of online funding) C00072 Content censorship in non-relevant domains e.g. Pinterest antivax C00100 Hashtag jacking C00115 Expose actor and intentions C00125 Prepare the population with pre-announcements C00136 Microtarget most likely targets then send them countermessages
C00013 Rating framework for news C00030 Develop a compelling counter narrative (truth based) C00040 third party verification for people C00056 Get off social media C00068 Expose online funding as fake C00074 Identify identical content and mass deplatform C00101 Create participant friction C00116 Provide proof of involvement C00126 Social media amber alert C00137 Pollute the AB-testing data feeds
C00015 Reputation scores for social media users C00031 Dilute the core narrative - create multiple permutations, target / amplify C00042 Address truth contained in narratives C00058 Report crowdfunder as violator C00069 Mark clickbait visually C00075 normalise language C00102 Make repeat voting harder C00117 Downgrade de-amplify label promote counter to disinformation C00128 Create friction by marking content with ridicule or other "decelerants" C00138 Spam domestic actors with lawsuits
C00016 Censorship - not recommended C00032 Hijack content and link to truth- based info (platform) C00043 Detect hijacked accounts and reallocate them C00059 Verification of project before posting (counters funding campaigns) C00216 Use advertiser controls to stem flow of funds to bad actors C00076 Prohibit images in political discourse channels C00103 Create a bot that engages / distract trolls C00118 Repurpose images with new text C00151 “fight in the light” C00139 Weaponise youtube content matrices
C00017 Repair broken social connections C00207 tit-for-tat campaign C00044 Keep people from posting to social media immediately C00060 Enhanced legal enforcement against for-profit follower/engagement factories C00077 Active defence: replay "develop people" C00105 Buy more advertising than the adversary to shift influence and algorithms C00119 Engage payload and debunk. Provide link to facts. C00156 Better tell the U.S., NATO, and EU story. C00140 "Bomb" link shorteners with lots of calls
C00019 Reduce effect of division-enablers C00045 S4d detection and re-allocation approaches C00062 Free open library sources worldwide C00078 Change Search Algorithms for Disinformation Content. More specifically, change image search algorithms for hate groups and extremists C00106 Click-bait centrist content C00120 Open dialogue about design of platforms to produce different outcomes C00158 Use training to build the resilience of at-risk populations. C00141 "Hey this story is old" popup when messaging with old URL
C00021 Encourage in-person communication C00046 Marginalise and discredit extremist C00152 “name and shame” C00079 Change search algorithms for hate and extremist queries to show content sympathetic to opposite side C00107 Content moderation C00121 Tool transparency and literacy for channels people follow. C00169 develop a creative content hub C00142 "This has been disproved - do you want to forward it"
C00022 Innoculate. Positive campaign to promote feeling of safety C00047 Coordinated inauthentics C00162 collect data/map constellations of Russian“civil society”. Unravel/target the Potemkin villages C00080 Create competing narrative C00109 De-escalation C00154 Ask media not to report false information C00178 Fill information voids with non-disinformation content C00143 (botnet) DMCA takedown requests to waste group time
C00024 Promote healthy narratives C00048 Name and Shame C00081 Discredit by pointing out the "noise" and informing public that "flooding" is a technique of disinformation campaigns; point out intended objective of "noise" C00110 Monetize centrist SEO by subsidizing the difference in greater clicks towards extremist content C00188 Newsroom/Journalist training to counter SEO influence C00182 malware detection/quarantine/deletion C00144 Buy out troll farm employees / offer them jobs
C00026 Shore up democracy based messages C00150 “calling them out” C00082 Ground truthing as automated response to pollution C00111 Present sympathetic views of opposite side C00193 promotion of a “higher standard of journalism” C00184 Media exposure C00145 Pollute the data voids with wholesome content (Kittens! Babyshark!)
C00027 Create culture of civility C00155 Ban incident actors from funding sites C00084 Steal their truths C00195 Redirect Method C00203 Stop offering press credentials to propaganda outlets C00190 open engagement with civil society
C00073 Inoculate populations through media literacy training C00160 find and train influencers C00085 Demuting content C00196 Include the role of social media in the regulatory framework for media C00204 Strengthen local media C00194 Provide an alternative to Russian information by expanding and improving local content.
C00153 Take pre-emptive action against actors' infrastructure C00164 compatriot policy C00086 Distract from noise with addictive content C00214 Create policy that makes social media police disinformation C00200 Respected figure (influencer) disavows misinfo
C00159 Have a disinformation response plan C00179 Identify, monitor, and, if necessary, target Russia-based nonattributed social media accounts C00087 Make more noise C00215 Use fraud legislation to clean up social media C00211 Use humorous counter-narratives
C00161 Coalition Building and Third-Party Inducements: C00189 Ongoing analysis/monitoring of "flagged" profiles C00088 Poison pill recasting of message C00217 Registries alert when large batches of newsy URLs get registered together C00212 build public resilence by making civil society more vibrant
C00170 elevate information as a critical domain of statecraft C00197 remove suspicious facebook accounts C00089 Throttle number of forwards C00218 Censorship
C00174 Create a healthier news environment C00090 Fake engagement system
C00176 Improve Coordination amongst stakeholders: public and private C00091 Honeypot social community
C00205 strong dialogue between the federal government and private sector to encourage better reporting C00092 Establish a truth teller reputation score for individuals with many followers
C00220 Develop a monitoring and intelligence plan C00093 Establish tailored code of conduct for individuals with many followers
C00221 Run a disinformation red team, and design mitigation factors C00094 Force full disclosure on corporate sponsor of research
C00095 Keep score
C00096 Strengthen institutions that are always truth tellers
C00165 Limit access to alterable documents
C00167 Deploy Information and Narrative-Building in Service of Statecraft
C00171 social media content take-downs
C00172 social media page removal
C00202 Set data 'honeytraps'
C00210 Use encrypted apps for confidential communication
C00219 Add metadata to content - out of the control of the adversary