Technique T0017: Integrate Target Audience Vulnerabilities into Narrative

Summary: An influence operation may seek to exploit the preexisting weaknesses, fears, and enemies of the target audience for integration into the operation’s narratives and overall strategy. Integrating existing vulnerabilities into the operational approach conserves resources by exploiting already weak areas of the target information environment instead of forcing the operation to create new vulnerabilities in the environment.
Belongs to tactic stage: TA04

Incident	Descriptions given for this incident
I00002 #VaccinateUS	Promote "funding" campaign

Counters	Response types
C00012 Platform regulation	D02
C00016 Censorship	D02
C00058 Report crowdfunder as violator	D02
C00067 Denigrate the recipient/ project (of online funding)	D03
C00070 Block access to disinformation resources	D02
C00085 Mute content	D03
C00093 Influencer code of conduct	D07
C00107 Content moderation	D02
C00122 Content moderation	D02
C00129 Use banking to cut off access	D02
C00153 Take pre-emptive action against actors' infrastructure	D03
C00155 Ban incident actors from funding sites	D02
C00176 Improve Coordination amongst stakeholders: public and private	D07
C00178 Fill information voids with non-disinformation content	D04
C00216 Use advertiser controls to stem flow of funds to bad actors	D02

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