AMITT/techniques/T0026.md

Technique T0026: Create fake research

• Summary: Create fake academic research. Example: fake social science research is often aimed at hot-button social issues such as gender, race and sexuality. Fake science research can target Climate Science debate or pseudoscience like anti-vaxx

• Belongs to tactic stage: TA06

Incident	Descriptions given for this incident

Counters	Response types
C00006 Charge for social media	D2 Deny
C00006 Censorship	D2 Deny
C00012 Platform regulation	D2 Deny
C00072 Remove non-relevant content from special interest groups – not recommended	D2 Deny
C00073 Inoculate populations through media literacy training	D2 Deny
C00074 Identify and delete or rate limit identical content	D2 Deny
C00081 Highlight flooding and noise, and explain motivations	D3 Disrupt
C00082 Ground truthing as automated response to pollution	D3 Disrupt
C00085 Mute content	D3 Disrupt
C00094 Force full disclosure on corporate sponsor of research	D4 Degrade
C00096 Strengthen institutions that are always truth tellers	D7 Deter
C00107 Content moderation	D2 Deny
C00117 Downgrade / de-amplify so message is seen by fewer people	D4 Degrade
C00119 Engage payload and debunk. Provide link to facts.	D7 Deter
C00122 Content moderation	D2 Deny
C00176 Improve Coordination amongst stakeholders: public and private	D7 Deter
C00195 Redirect searches away from disinformation or extremist content	D2 Deny
C00211 Use humorous counter-narratives	D3 Disrupt
C00211 Use humorous counter-narratives	D3 Disrupt
C00219 Add metadata to content that’s out of the control of disinformation creators	D4 Degrade

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