A case study in how “social media is being treated as a disinformation laboratory.'
Deibert said Citizen Lab published its findings because the operation used new techniques to spread disinformation, and researchers, journalists, and the public need to be aware of how quickly these operations are evolving.
These personas would tweet the false articles and in some cases contact legitimate journalists via direct message to try and get them to further amplify the content. “Typically, after the inauthentic articles were posted to Twitter, amplified by third parties, or covered by mainstream media, Endless Mayfly deleted the content and redirected visitors to the legitimate media outlets that they were impersonating,” the report said.
The report dubs this technique “ephemeral disinformation” because “the message remains even though the evidence is ephemeral.”
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