- label
- Digital Inauthentic Amplification
- category
- Digital
- code
- TC-11
- definition
- Coordinated inauthentic behavior in digital environments to amplify anti-CSO narratives and manufacture the appearance of organic public consensus. Operates through three mechanisms: (1) portal flooding — network of newly registered or regime-connected portals simultaneously publishes near-identical attack content; (2) social media harvesting — real civic social media content extracted, decontextualized, and reframed as evidence of malign intent on pro-regime accounts; (3) bot/inauthentic amplification — bot networks or coordinated inauthentic accounts amplify delegitimization content to simulate public rejection of civil society.
- detection signal
- Multiple portals with shared ownership or identical texts publishing within 24 hours; civic social media posts appearing reframed on pro-regime accounts; sudden spike in engagement on delegitimization content from low-activity or recently created accounts; coordinated hashtag campaigns targeting named CSOs or individuals.
- instrument type
- Digital
- needs review
- false
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