Technique T0048: Cow online opinion leaders

Summary: Intimidate, coerce, threaten critics/dissidents/journalists via trolling, doxing. Examples: Philippines, Maria Ressa and Rappler journalists targeted Duterte regime, lawsuits, trollings, banned from the presidential palace where press briefings take place; 2017 bot attack on five ProPublica Journalists.
Belongs to tactic stage: TA09

Incident	Descriptions given for this incident
I00033 China 50cent Army	cow online opinion leaders into submission, muzzling social media as a political force

Counters	Response types
C00009 Educate high profile influencers on best practices	D2 Deny
C00012 Platform regulation	D2 Deny
C00027 Create culture of civility	D7 Deter
C00046 Marginalise and discredit extremist groups	D4 Degrade
C00048 Name and Shame Influencers	D7 Deter
C00073 Inoculate populations through media literacy training	D2 Deny
C00087 Make more noise than the disinformation	D4 Degrade
C00093 Influencer code of conduct	D7 Deter
C00114 Don't engage with payloads	D2 Deny
C00115 Expose actor and intentions	D2 Deny
C00154 Ask media not to report false information	D2 Deny
C00160 find and train influencers	D2 Deny

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