Facilitate State Propaganda

From ADTAC Disinformation Inventory

T0002

Organize citizens around pro-state messaging. Paid or volunteer groups coordinated to push state propaganda (examples include 2016 Diba Facebook Expedition, coordinated to overcome China’s Great Firewall to flood the Facebook pages of Taiwanese politicians and news agencies with a pro-PRC message).

Strategic move: generates positive will of the people.

Indicators:

  • Nationalist messaging from private social media accounts
  • Amplification of government messaging from private social media accounts
    Examples:
  • Russian-speaking coordinated messaging in Ukraine
  • China coordinated messaging on Uyghurs
  • 50-Cent army
  • Diba facebook expedition[1]