Have You Heard of Cognitive Security or Cognitive Warfare?
(Edited)
As the title of my article stipulates, #CogWar (Cognitive Warfare) and #CogSec (#Cognitive Security) are the two main subjects I want to educate you on.
Dear readers,
It's been a busy weekend for me. I've ferreted away far too many hours into investigating & writing about topics relatively unfamiliar to me. Once I pulled a thread, another would untangle at the same time, meaning I couldn't resist pulling on it too.
So here I sit, sore and placated - somehow happy in a silly way. Sunday morning is streaming in and I'm literally aglow from sunlight which was absent for almost a whole month of record rainfalls. There's so much to share with you and for you to learn from, but I'll keep it focused & narrow for you. I'm aware that my manic states of exultation wont bode well for translating #5GW Mil Ops (Fifth Generation Warfare Military Operations) into a concise written format that you'll read easily.
There's considerable additional information gathered that must be shared as well, but in the context of contemporaneous global online operations such as Atlantic Council's June 22, 2023 publication and premiere of "Report launch: Scaling Trust on the Web", I'm focusing on two subjects and then combining my source documentation for those subjects to illustrate what we're facing right now.
So I'm gonna focus on a government agency framework titled: Disarm Framework Explorer: TA15 "Establish Social Assets" (linked at end of article) and how this document intersects the existence of another completely separate document via supporting anecdotes.
I'm taking excerpts for these anecdotes from a thread posted onto 4chan/pol almost 2 years ago by a self-described whistleblower (thread linked at end of article).
Anecdotes taken as excerpts are then inserted to match perfectly into one of the many corresponding "objects," listed and described in the Disarm Framework Explorer: TA15 "Establish Social Assets."
Our intent is for a listed "object" to be described through insertion of corresponding excerpts sourced from our whistleblower's 4chan/pol thread. the whistleblower's quoted posts are labelled (b), anon 1 (a) and any other anons in a conversation (c), (d) in order of appearance.
Here we go...
DISARM Framework Explorer
TA15 "Establish Social Assets"
Belongs to phase P02 Prepare
Summary: Establishing information assets generates messaging tools, including social media accounts, operation personnel, and organizations, including directly and indirectly managed assets. For assets under their direct control, the operation can add, change, or remove these assets at will. Establishing information assets allows an influence operation to promote messaging directly to the target audience without navigating through external entities. Many online influence operations create or compromise social media accounts as a primary vector of information dissemination.
TA15 Tasks
| disarm_id | name | summary |
| TK0010 | Create personas | Create personas |
| TK0011 | Recruit contractors | Recruit contractors |
| TK0012 | Recruit partisans | Recruit partisans |
| TK0013 | find influencers | find influencers |
| TK0014 | Network building | Network building |
| TK0015 | Network infiltration | Network infiltration |
| TK0016 | identify targets - susceptible audience members in networks | identify targets - susceptible audience members in networks |
| TK0033 | OPSEC for TA15 | OPSEC for TA15 |
| TK0034 | OPSEC for TA15 | OPSEC for TA15 |
TA15 Techniques
| disarm_id | name | summary |
|---|---|---|
| T0007 | Create Inauthentic Social Media Pages and Groups | Create key social engineering assets needed to amplify content, manipulate algorithms, fool public and/or specific incident/campaign targets. Computational propaganda depends substantially on false perceptions of credibility and acceptance. By creating fake users and groups with a variety of interests and commitments, attackers can ensure that their messages both come from trusted sources and appear more widely adopted than they actually are. (b) >"perception management" (a) "can you explain what this means exactly?" (b) "Its sort of extended public relations project really. It is based on being indistinguishable between organic opinion/consensus and directed opinion/consensus from one person/group to another person/group" (a) "Describe some of the long term perception goals that are less obvious. We all know you want us to take the jab but what else?" (b) "Lol, its kinda obvious innit? Anyways, vaccine acceptance is high level projects. I have nothing to do with it." |
| T0010 | Cultivate ignorant agents | Cultivate propagandists for a cause, the goals of which are not fully comprehended, and who are used cynically by the leaders of the cause. Independent actors use social media and specialised web sites to strategically reinforce and spread messages compatible with their own. Their networks are infiltrated and used by state media disinformation organisations to amplify the state’s own disinformation strategies against target populations. Many are traffickers in conspiracy theories or hoaxes, unified by a suspicion of Western governments and mainstream media. Their narratives, which appeal to leftists hostile to globalism and military intervention and nationalists against immigration, are frequently infiltrated and shaped by state-controlled trolls and altered news items from agencies such as RT and Sputnik. Also know as "useful idiots" or "unwitting agents". (a) "How often do the small teams employ custom coders? I've often thought about how to innovate the shill scene with different scripts and monitoring solutions. I had a nice /biz/ thread catcher going for a while to shill some of the better crypto projects, and it was fun to see the correlation between small price spikes and post times" (b) "Remember projects are executed with modularity. Story/Strategy comes from Big Boys (think of SRI). Lesses Stratergists ape the Big Boys. Assist-Softwares come from god knows who (prolly Pajits). Raids are decided at lower levels. Lesser projects are executed by NEETS. There is many many vectors here." (b) "BigAgro, BigBanks, Bigpharma, Corporations, Gov, NGO, Glowie, Glowie-derail, Anti-Glowie, Anti-Glowie-derail, normalizations, Perception Changing Events (PCE), PCE vetting, PCE post execution projects, sub- and super-generational projects, soft-abbeting and hard-abetting... too many to name." (a) "People like you have convinced me fascists were right about free speech. Filthy rat kikes that don't allow the rest of us to have nice things." (b) "Fascists or non-Fascists, shilling is as old as pre-Grecian society. Shape, forms, intensity and methodologies evolve." (c) "I don't understand why retards like the one you are replying to don't use the tactics. They whine about muh Jews so much, but don't observe/ respect/ employ the tactics that claim are being used. It's a shame." (b) "Pro and Anti-whining (on any of the matters) are both from shills. The aim is to create such organic appearance that a newfag will jump into one of the polarity. In any given thread that reaches bump limit only 20% or replies are organic. The name of the game is tipping-point threshold." (b) "> In any given thread that reaches bump limit only 20% or replies are organic." (c) "Many of us have suspected this. Way too many simplistic empty comments from obvious phonefags that offer nothing to the thread. This whole board is a glowing fucking honeytrap." |
| T0013 | Create inauthentic websites | Create media assets to support inauthentic organizations (e.g. think tank), people (e.g. experts) and/or serve as sites to distribute malware/launch phishing operations. |
| T0014 | Prepare fundraising campaigns | Fundraising campaigns refer to an influence operation’s systematic effort to seek financial support for a charity, cause, or other enterprise using online activities that further promote operation information pathways while raising a profit. Many influence operations have engaged in crowdfunding services on platforms including Tipee, Patreon, and GoFundMe. An operation may use its previously prepared fundraising campaigns (see: Develop Information Pathways) to promote operation messaging while raising money to support its activities. |
| T0014.001 | Raise funds from malign actors | Raising funds from malign actors may include contributions from foreign agents, cutouts or proxies, shell companies, dark money groups, etc. (a) "Could you name some shills and splitters? Do you do work for pro Chinese?" (b) "Pro chinese shills are a meme created by shills! China has most of its resources for internal shilling than external shilling! Its always the Chinese, Koreans or the Russians innit?" (b) "Ever though about DOD?" (a) "I ask this directly because I know literal CCP shills in China. Good people outside of their work. Their attitude is normally, "that shit is in there area and not ours. I've yet to actually hear real Chinese shills paid to be on 4chan... Yet." (a) "To add to this. They do supposedly employ "white monkeys" to shill for them on foreign sites where English is much, much more important. I've yet to actually see this or get real concrete proof of this other than Chinese shill hearsay." "The people I know aren't high level." (b) "Anon, we use a technique called memetic-resonators." (b) "Earlier there used to be a shill to make a person act/ think in a particular way. Now we make people act/think in a particular way AND create an internal insecurity so that they end up nudging the people around them to act/think in the same particular way." (b) "Have you ever wondered why the people who get jabbed want other people to get jabbed too? Misery loves company eh?" |
| T0014.002 | Raise funds from ignorant agents | Raising funds from ignorant agents may include scams, donations intended for one stated purpose but then used for another, etc. |
| T0065 | Prepare Physical Broadcast Capabilities | Create or coopt broadcast capabilities (e.g. TV, radio etc). |
| T0090 | Create Inauthentic Accounts | Inauthentic accounts include bot accounts, cyborg accounts, sockpuppet accounts, and anonymous accounts. |
| T0090.001 | Create Anonymous Accounts | Anonymous accounts or anonymous users refer to users that access network resources without providing a username or password. An influence operation may use anonymous accounts to spread content without direct attribution to the operation. |
| T0090.002 | Create Cyborg Accounts | Cyborg accounts refer to partly manned, partly automated social media accounts. Cyborg accounts primarily act as bots, but a human operator periodically takes control of the account to engage with real social media users by responding to comments and posting original content. Influence operations may use cyborg accounts to reduce the amount of direct human input required to maintain a regular account but increase the apparent legitimacy of the cyborg account by occasionally breaking its bot-like behavior with human interaction. |
| T0090.003 | Create Bot Accounts | Bots refer to autonomous internet users that interact with systems or other users while imitating traditional human behavior. Bots use a variety of tools to stay active without direct human operation, including artificial intelligence and big data analytics. For example, an individual may program a Twitter bot to retweet a tweet every time it contains a certain keyword or hashtag. An influence operation may use bots to increase its exposure and artificially promote its content across the internet without dedicating additional time or human resources. Amplifier bots promote operation content through reposts, shares, and likes to increase the content’s online popularity. Hacker bots are traditionally covert bots running on computer scripts that rarely engage with users and work primarily as agents of larger cyberattacks, such as a Distributed Denial of Service attacks. Spammer bots are programmed to post content on social media or in comment sections, usually as a supplementary tool. Impersonator bots, 102 pose as real people by mimicking human behavior, complicating their detection. (b) "The post-completion tool and automatic profile switcher died in the background and I ended up replying to myself for a few hours." (a) " >Shilling never seems to convince anyone on anything," (b) "Lol, I have news for you. Ever heard of TippingPoint principle and Nudge technique?" (a) "When the new captcha was introduced, there was a 15% drop in the posting the next day. The bot-writers had to play cat and mouse for a while." (b) "Some lost jobs lol" (a) "When the captcha was changed many said they felt there was a sharp drop in shills. I myself noticed my slide filters weren't hiding as many threads. How much would you say it actually impacted shilling?" (b) "For two days or so almost 100%.. /pol/ became like young-moot proto-pol. But, like all things, shills adapt too." |
| T0090.004 | Create Sockpuppet Accounts | Sockpuppet accounts refer to falsified accounts that either promote the influence operation’s own material or attack critics of the material online. Individuals who control sockpuppet accounts also man at least one other user account.67 Sockpuppet accounts help legitimize operation narratives by providing an appearance of external support for the material and discrediting opponents of the operation. |
| T0091 | Recruit malign actors | Operators recruit bad actors paying recruiting, or exerting control over individuals includes trolls, partisans, and contractors. (a) "Thanks for being here today and for your candid responses." (b) " >Some jannies dont do it for free" (a) "Yeah i've long suspected this." (b) " >Shills play on collectivization-effects." (b) " >How do """WE""" solve the nigger problem, Why are ""YOU"" an incel, what does "POL" thinking about donuts." (b) " >Shills also used "charged" texts: My employer made it mandatory to fuck trannies, I dont like benis what do?" (a) "These threads should be obvious to all but the newfags. They're a waste of time and i assume they're just for an extended DHS IP harvesting operation so they can expand their database of potential targets who engage in "hate speech"." (b) " >Even honest and organic sounding posts come from shills." (a) "They do a pretty good job of making themselves sound like normies, desu." (b) " >Additionally do not, at any cost, let their posts trigger an emotional response!" "(b) >Move on. They mostly feed on (You)s" (a) "Yeah i learned that the hard way early on." (a) " >DHS IP harvesting operation so they can expand their database of potential targets who engage in "hate speech". (b) "DHS is a whole new can of worms." (b) "Remember some cops stop you over and check for Narc so that they can fullfil a quota that justifies their funding?" (b) "Same goes with DHS and other AyyLmaos agencies. If they could "prevent" an "incel-shooting" in a "nick-of-time" more funding could be demanded." (b) "Now what if they could "grow" a school-shooter instead? They, most of the time suck in sounding organic, almost always Glow." (a) " >They do a pretty good job of making themselves sound like normies, desu." (b) "Ivy league Psych departments are smart buttholes afterall!" |
| T0091.001 | Recruit Contractors | Operators recruit paid contractor to support the campaign. (a) " >Whom do you work for?" (b) "I am a freelancer.. I pay for whoever pays me" (a) "Is there a job board for freelance shills? Legit actually interested in this and any other psyop shit. It's fascinating" (b) "At first you get randomly approached on plebbit for grassroot-feeling shoutout projects. If you are creative you will get hired for bigger projects, if you are supercreative you get hired for literal BigCorporations." (a) "Thanks for the reply. Do you use any specific software to coordinate campaigns? Self-hosted and open source preferable, although I know the paid for tools are probably better." (a) ">Do you use any specific software to coordinate campaigns?" (b) "Telegram / Element" (a) ">paid for tools are probably better." (b) "Big Boys use them. |
| T0091.002 | Recruit Partisans | Operators recruit partisans (ideologically-aligned individuals) to support the campaign. (a) "I'll throw you another question if you don't mind. Can you recommend some books to read when it comes to more academic overviews of the industry and techniques?" (b) "Cass is a genius (recommend all of his world). Bernays is bible. Debord - Society of spectacle. Essays by Jesuits (literally literal masterpiece) too many to name lol" (a) "I'd recommend taking a read through MindWar" (b) "I will thank you. I would strongly recommend a thin book titled fifth generation warfare. (we are currently in the middle of one anyway)" (a) "Is the Canadian shill branch as big as the constant shilling insinuate? Is the place you're working from running on public funding?" (b) "Nation specific shill agencies work for nation-specific issues alone, for the global projects/events shilling is modular and LOCKSTEP." (a) " >Is the place you're working from running on public funding?" (b) "I am a freelancer (of sorts)" (a) "Aka sub contracted, got it." (a) "Facebook is the canned Lifelog project from DARPA that got reused by Isreali/kikes, with Zuckerburg being little more than a hack stealing merit for it (facebook came to be 1 month after project was ended, what a cohencidence) literallly the only aspect they changed is how the information is gathered. As in, instead of being gathered against your consent or awareness, they fooled peoples into freely giving said information under the guise of a network meant to ease communications between users, omitting how the privacy of the data is compromised from the get go due to the true intent of the endeavor." (a) "Basically, kikes stole the Lifelog project data and made their own version of it, and used pilpul to fool peoples into believing their site was a genuine way to record your personal life, giving them access to a treasure trove of free blackmail." (b) "DOD, DARPA, Psych deps of Stanford, Randcorp had an orgy and the rapebaby is called Faceberg" |
| T0091.003 | Enlist Troll Accounts | An influence operation may hire trolls, or human operators of fake accounts that aim to provoke others by posting and amplifying content about controversial issues. Trolls can serve to discredit an influence operation’s opposition or bring attention to the operation’s cause through debate. Classic trolls refer to regular people who troll for personal reasons, such as attention-seeking or boredom. Classic trolls may advance operation narratives by coincidence but are not directly affiliated with any larger operation. Conversely, hybrid trolls act on behalf of another institution, such as a state or financial organization, and post content with a specific ideological goal. Hybrid trolls may be highly advanced and institutionalized or less organized and work for a single individual. (b) " >I am a freelancer.. I pay for whoever pays me" (a) "How many regular clients do you have? How are your jobs worded (eg. "shill nigger dicks for the next two weeks, cheque is in the mail t. Angola Urkel)". (b) "Public Relations manager for grassroots campaign, outreach about health benefits of genetically modified onions trashbags and combating vaccine hesitancy. Above average pay, 6 months contract, possibility of growth." |
| T0092 | Build Network | Operators build their own network, creating links between accounts -- whether authentic or inauthentic -- in order amplify and promote narratives and artifacts, and encourage further growth of ther network, as well as the ongoing sharing and engagement with operational content. (b) " >vaccine acceptance is high level projects. I have nothing to do with it" (a) "Feel free to let the vax shillniggers know that they suck at their jobs. They're generally so fucking cringe that they only end up pushing us harder to redpill newfags on the dangers of it [which bleeds into meatspace], negating all of their efforts and just generally wasting their time. But i guess those pharma checks must be pretty big.." (b) "Oh they did/are doing one hell of a job!" (b) "All shilling leads to polarization, this gets taken into account even before the commencement of a project (or "Raid" as newfags call it). Infact, it is possible to get "Mathematically" precise ratio between number of people in Budge and non-Budge groups." (a) "What's this ratio like in the case of vaccines?" (b) "I am not aware of the ration, but Parito thumb rule dictates 80% will be jabbed." |
| T0092.001 | Create Organizations | Influence operations may establish organizations with legitimate or falsified hierarchies, staff, and content to structure operation assets, provide a sense of legitimacy to the operation, or provide institutional backing to operation activities. |
| T0092.002 | Use Follow Trains | A follow train is a group of people who follow each other on a social media platform, often as a way for an individual or campaign to grow its social media following. Follow trains may be a violation of platform Terms of Service. They are also known as follow-for-follow groups. |
| T0092.003 | Create Community or Sub-group | When there is not an existing community or sub-group that meets a campaign's goals, an influence operation may seek to create a community or sub-group. (a) "Would you reveal techniques to identify and combat shilling? Would you reveal how you know another poster is a shill against your shilling interest and the methods by which you subvert or attack them?" (b) "Excellent question, I would like to answer this at the end. Please remind me once again if you dont mind." (a) "How do I demoralize a shill?" (b) "Shills work on hit-and-run basis. They attack your emotional brain. You cant attack theirs.""Every (You) only makes them stronger." (b) "Recognize it is a shill and move on." (b) "Treat Shills like a temper tantrum throwing sorority bitch. Ignore it, observe what methodology it is using (eg bandwagon, authority, slipperyslope, hidden-desires, insecurity of something etc ) and move on. A shill looses its power when you identify it as shill." (a) "Smartest thing said in this thread. Shilling is about baiting you into geting angry. Sometimes they will be obvious shills, because by being obvious they make people angry, and most of /pol/ are highly autistic with a vastly inflated overestimation of their own IQ, and so just sperg out and engage with the shill like a bull charging a red flag. The thing that makes them good at analysis, digging for data, spotting shills- autism- also means they lack the restraint or perspective analysis to realise the shill doesn't care about right or wrong, truth or lie, only about derailing you. By engaging you lose and by getting (rightfully) angry you poison the whole thread to newcomers by clogging it with bullshit and moving it nearer the bump limit, and moving the thread's focus onto shill bullshit instead of any decent content." (a) "Another tip- shills don't (you) posters smarter than them, or usually posters who drop useful info. If they do the latter it's to try bait those posters into engaging, or getting angry, and so focus less on dropping info or research digs. And certain topics with certain hot material, they will avoid good info. You can sometimes measure how good info is by how few shills it has replying- they won't fight battles they can't win. I despair every time spastics reply to Elsa of Arendelle or other obvious shills. Don't fucking feed them you low-attention span low impulse control retards. If you drop info and get shilled, respond with MORE INFO or DONT RESPOND TO THEM. (a) "Stoicism kills the shill. You can't upset or anger or annoy them as they do not care- they are here for money, and trying to piss them off will usually give them kicks as you're paying them. Yes some of the discord raiders get upset by insults- they are the minority of shills." (a) "Be stoic. Don't engage, don't react, don't be fucking goldfish taking the same bait every time." (a) ">t. not a shill, just someone who understands human psychology." (a) " >Stoicism kills the shill." (b) "Based take. If one think some anon wants to take from this thread it is this." (b) "Do not forget the rational and logical shills... They will not shill you to take the jab... they will "Convince" you to take the jab." (b) "Shills come in all colors, shapes and sizes. Petty shill is sufficient for a gardentype NEET. Smarter shill is required for a GoldmanSachs anon. Even fucking /x/ has shills that try to fuck up anon's spiritual quest lol." (c) " >They will not shill you to take the jab... they will "Convince" you to take the jab." (c) "Which is why people should focus on evidence and crucially read. But too many people just take an OP pic and stop there, or quotes from a link. Graduates are especially susceptible to this blurb/clickbait effect as they have 3-4 years of being conditioned to not have time/energy/motivation to read a full paper & dataset, just the abstract. Learn to have attention spans & patience, people." |
| T0093 | Acquire/Recruit Network | Operators acquire an existing network by paying, recruiting, or exerting control over the leaders of the existing network. (a) "Q was pretty obviously stupid from the beginning." (b) "Remember, the 17th letter of alphabet will trigger shill-/sage-/derail/split-/cheese-pizza-shoah-teams on standby" |
| T0093.001 | Fund Proxies | An influence operation may fund proxies, or external entities that work for the operation. An operation may recruit/train users with existing sympathies towards the operation’s narratives and/or goals as proxies. Funding proxies serves various purposes including: - Diversifying operation locations to complicate attribution - Reducing the workload for direct operation assets |
| T0093.002 | Acquire Botnets | A botnet is a group of bots that can function in coordination with each other. (a) "How often are bots deployed? How many responses can a bot make on average before it’s caught out? How often do you interact with bot threads? Do you use them?" (b) "Bots are mostly used for "Triggers". Sure, there is billions being poured into creating NN-Bots but NN is a distant dream. I do not use Bots. I love the good old pen and paper." (b) "Bots get deployed on critical issues when billions and billions are at stake. For example, just an year ago, if you had replied "Sneed" you would have brought down unfathomable bots and sliders. Backk then the captcha was from google, that made things simpler." |
| T0094 | Infiltrate Existing Networks | Operators deceptively insert social assets into existing networks as group members in order to influence the members of the network and the wider information environment that the network impacts. (a) " >Also, there are so many shills on this board that i think you've just created an echo chamber of shilling and that's skewed your results to your liking." (b) "Did you know the "Get jabbed" shill-project started in 2013? Many normies took the jab because they did not wanted to be "antivax-football moms" (a) " >Do you actually know how many shills are in a thread at any given point," (b) "Not more than single digits from what I know." (a) " >given that there are so many teams of cunts operating at the same time?" (b) "The team of cunts arent aware of eachother.." (a) " >If you do that would indicate central coordination coming from the glownigger mods themselves." (b) "We use a technique called centralized-decentralization or federated systems. So it is a little complicated." (b) " >Did you know the "Get jabbed" shill-project started in 2013?" (c) "No. It started right after vaccines were "invented", aka copied from N-European farmers." (c) "I still think we did correct when we went for memes, as we got a signal boost from the myriad of shills that used our memes to shill for their cause." (c) " >I still think we did correct when we went for memes" (b) "Sure, its called memetic amplification after all!" (c) "I don't think you get it on a deeper level." |
| T0094.001 | Identify susceptible targets in networks | When seeking to infiltrate an existing network, an influence operation may identify individuals and groups that might be susceptible to being co-opted or influenced. |
| T0094.002 | Utilize Butterfly Attacks | Butterfly attacks occur when operators pretend to be members of a certain social group, usually a group that struggles for representation. An influence operation may mimic a group to insert controversial statements into the discourse, encourage the spread of operation content, or promote harassment among group members. Unlike astroturfing, butterfly attacks aim to infiltrate and discredit existing grassroots movements, organizations, and media campaigns. |
| T0095 | Develop Owned Media Assets | An owned media asset refers to an agency or organization through which an influence operation may create, develop, and host content and narratives. Owned media assets include websites, blogs, social media pages, forums, and other platforms that facilitate the creation and organization of content. |
| T0096 | Leverage Content Farms | Using the services of large-scale content providers for creating and amplifying campaign artifacts at scale. |
| T0096.001 | Create Content Farms | An influence operation may create an organization for creating and amplifying campaign artifacts at scale. (a) "I have a feeling your bosses are using this circular shilling system they've created to make it look like they're getting better results then they actually are so they can get bigger contracts when in reality they're not having much effect at all, even if the thinktankniggers say so. What i see from the trenches are your efforts backfiring, but my scope is limited since i don't waste my time in any of your useless race-baiting & woman-hating threads." (c) "Spot on, they are simply constructing a mechanism that gives the appearance of results, and thus they keep their job and get their head patted." (b) "Thats sometimes true too. Since there is no quantitative measure of how well the shilling campaign went, many (higher) level shill managers game the system." |
| T0096.002 | Outsource Content Creation to External Organizations | An influence operation may outsource content creation to external companies to avoid attribution, increase the rate of content creation, or improve content quality, i.e., by employing an organization that can create content in the target audience’s native language. Employed organizations may include marketing companies for tailored advertisements or external content farms for high volumes of targeted media. |
TA15 Counters
| disarm_id | name | summary |
|---|---|---|
| C00034 | Create more friction at account creation | Counters fake account |
| C00036 | Infiltrate the in-group to discredit leaders (divide) | All of these would be highly affected by infiltration or false-claims of infiltration. |
| C00040 | third party verification for people | counters fake experts |
| C00042 | Address truth contained in narratives | Focus on and boost truths in misinformation narratives, removing misinformation from them. (a) " >posts a mocking bird that turns up on russian boards." (b)"Finally! a non fellow-shill question!" (a) ''>If three armed men kicked your door off the hinges right now and black bagged you and seized all your electronics immediately, how fucked would you be?" (b) "I do not work on high-level shilling. I work in what some people call "perception management". On 4chan end elsewhere. So, I am not aware of a possibility where the blackbagging would happen." (b) "Remember, the quality of information I can reply with depends on the quality of your questions. (a) "Do you feel guilty of your crimes against humanity? Or do you feel that the people that hired you will treat you as one of them if they succeed and you will not be a loose end?" (b) "No free will is violated. Only the catalyst is provided. If (You) choose the shittier choice why blame others?" (b) "Everyanon to himself anon! It is all a big joke really, trying to serve self or trying to serve others is the only two choices, surprisingly I have choosen the second one. At the end we will all go back where we came from." (a) " >Many of us have suspected this." (b) "Covid was a Gambit.. some ended up seeing some of the cards the people above have. Others fell for peer-pressure." "But the Gambit played out well for the Powers above." (a) " >Way too many simplistic empty comments from obvious phonefags that offer nothing to the thread" (b) "Look at this thread alone for example. If you could spot the shills,derailers and splitters." (a) ">This whole board is a glowing fucking honeytrap." (b) "Last Bastion of free speech eh?!" (a) "I think what you're doing is contributing to the mass hysteria going on right now about covid at least. That said you're right about propaganda. No one can ultimately make you believe it but consider this point: if propaganda is successful in making most people believe something, then government policy is made because of it and it doesnt matter whether or not I believed it, I will still be affected by it." (a) "Take the covid vaccine for example. Whether or not I believe their propaganda that it will help to end covid or help people fight it, I will still be subject to the inevitable covid vaccine passport that the population has been propagandized into demanding." (a) "This isnt to say that the vaccine doesnt help some people, it may very well do that. The problem is that propaganda has been used to make people so afraid as to either demand or tolerate the idea of a vaccine passport, which I think is completely authoritarian and also unnecessary for the ultimate survival of humanity through covid." (a) "I know that money talks and you'll probably continue to do this but consider this as an intellectual exercise" (b) "The golden rule of propaganda is that it is 50% true. The aim is not to make a bunch of people act in a certain way, The aim instead is polarization. People are comfortable with knowing untruth than accepting set of possibilities." (b) "Just like there are bad shills there are good shills too. Shills that are less vocal but want greater good of individuals. World isnt bad or cruel, it just offers choices between good and bad, kind and cruel." (a) "What you're saying makes sense. What did you mean by " >People are comfortable with knowing untruth than accepting set of possibilities." (a) "I dont understand." (b) "People want to be in control of everything, they try to control everything inside, outside and around stemming from insecurity. Therefore they are happy to accept bullshit that agrees well with their earlier beliefs than giving weight to personal-incorrectness." (b) "Now, in real world, it is not possible to instantaneously discern truth from untruth. People lack patience to carefully study a dilemma and therefore will jump to whatever that makes immediate sense or what other people believe in." (b) "Carefully studying a dilemma is accepting set of possibilities without emotional weightages to individual possibilities." (a) "Makes sense. And I agree that everything in your post is true. It was great talking with you shill bro. Thank you for the productive thread. I'm out." * (a) "what if you apply Price's law ... then 20% will take 80% of vaxx" (b) "Thats Parito's law. We are counting on it from several dimensions." |
| C00044 | Keep people from posting to social media immediately | Platforms can introduce friction to slow down activities, force a small delay between posts, or replies to posts. |
| C00046 | Marginalise and discredit extremist groups | Reduce the credibility of extremist groups posting misinformation. (a) "Where you the shill in the sandy hook thread last night?" (b) "No, SandyHook is part of ambient-project. I dont do such tasks." (a) "Qrd on ambient project? Why the German vpn also?" (b) "Some propaganda has to be ambient and permanent." (b) "It is one step above perception-management and called culture-managment." (b) "The people who are running the show think not in terms of months, years or decades but generations." (b) "They want to make sure their great great great grandson lives in a particular type of world. This wish might get hampered by trjectory of cultural evolution." (b) "The only way to control the culture is to create it." (b) "Culture gets created by permanent background information-frameworks. This is where Ambience project comes in. The current iteration commenced in 2012.12.21. (the previous iteration commenced in 2001.09.11)" (a) "Interesting. I suspected things like this existed. Do you shill because you actually believe its the right thing to do or just because it pays?" (b) "I would not like to answer this question unless you really want me to." |
| C00047 | Honeypot with coordinated inauthentics | Flood disinformation spaces with obviously fake content, to dilute core misinformation narratives in them. (a) "There are endless amounts of (insert flag of country) love/hate threads. Who is shilling in those? What's the aim?" (b) "I cannot tell you who is creating those threads. The aim is polarity and normalization of globalization." (b) On one level: If you KNOW that Shitlandstan exists you would be less resistant to interact with a Shitlandian that if you were not even aware of such a country." (b) " >the aim is polarity and normalization of globalization." (c) "But the effect is that most newfags become immune to the D&C. Since the shills are legion and care only about primary effect of the shilling, nobody is really able to stop the secondary effects in the aggregate." (c) " >But the effect is that most newfags become immune to the D&C." (b) "Few become immune, most just quit and go back to plebbit." (c) " >Since the shills are legion and care only about primary effect of the shilling, nobody is really able to stop the secondary effects in the aggregate." (b) "Thats actually true, many "Psych-departments" around the world are researching on this "secondary effect"" (b) " >most just quit and go back to plebbit." (c) "Perhaps, but new oldfags are created all the time." (b) " >Thats actually true, many "Psych-departments" around the world are researching on this "secondary effect"" (c) "I reckon, as they have done all sorts of gay ops and shilling to get the "neo-nazis" back into obscurity, but it's only becoming more of us." (c) "It's not that far from what military fags calls winning the battles, but losing the war." (c) " >Perhaps, but new oldfags are created all the time." (b) "Thats the nice things yes?" (c) " >It's not that far from what military fags calls winning the battles, but losing the war." (b) "There is no battle or war. There is control. Permanent, ambient, Omnipotent control." (c) " >I reckon, as they have done all sorts of gay ops and shilling to get the "neo-nazis" back into obscurity, but it's only becoming more of us." (b) "Thats synthetic consensus. Many of the zoomers are pussified enough that they wont even kill a mosquito raping their asshole." (a) " >I get the impression that there's an active glownigger campaign to get normies into summoning demons" (b) "The aim is simply confusion. Also, as I replied earlier, the threads are not in English but Glowiespeak.. So yea, be careful about Grays, they would abduct you." (b) " >The aim is simply confusion." (a) "That is backfiring too, as the elites themselves no longer know what is true." (b) "Lower level elites are confused, the higher ones are saddling." (a) "I have no idea, and since I don't believe in a super elite, and certainly not one that have control, IDGAF." (a) "Our elites are bumbling retards when it comes to the subjects you get thrown out of the elite for saying, and as that is a lot of important areas under globohomo, they have almost lost the ability to predict even the near future." (c) "We all got our mistakes, fren. Sorry for the bullshit test. ;)" (b) "Lower level elites are confused, the higher ones are saddling." (c) "Yeah, one can clearly notice that by now. Conflicting orders coming in from the owners, guess the "adverse reactions" were underestimated in regards to controlling them with soft power." (a) " >>shill on shill" (a) "The best is when the same organization pays one group of assholes to push for A while they send another batch of assholes to be the "bad guys" pushing B to make this place look bad. The feedback loop is phenomenal. Do you see all the people who think B? OMG i need to shill more! You dont need my services anymore? I need to do this for free!" (b) "Good point, Projects with opposite motivations are simultaneously started to get finer control." (a) "The labcoats are the labrats." (b) "Its like layers of onions.. I might be under a project too.. I have no way to know." (a) " >The labcoats are the labrats." (c) "WELL SAID. Are you paying attention, thinktankniggers?" |
| C00048 | Name and Shame Influencers | Think about the different levels: individual vs state-sponsored account. Includes “call them out” and “name and shame”. Identify social media accounts as sources of propaganda—“calling them out”— might be helpful to prevent the spread of their message to audiences that otherwise would consider them factual. Identify, monitor, and, if necessary, target externally-based nonattributed social media accounts. Impact of and Dealing with Trolls - "Chatham House has observed that trolls also sometimes function as decoys, as a way of “keeping the infantry busy” that “aims to wear down the other side” (Lough et al., 2014). Another type of troll involves “false accounts posing as authoritative information sources on social media”. |
| C00051 | Counter social engineering training | Includes anti-elicitation training, phishing prevention education. (b) "I will answer your questions as long as they dont lead to doxxing myself." (a) "Sorry, but i don't believe you. I've been in many vax-shilling threads over the past 3 months and it almost always goes the same way. I slap around the first wave of shills so bad that they have to send in the varsity niggers and the only techniques they have are pulling out their "incel" and "trump" jabs or threatening us with imprisonment. This doesn't work." "And then you have the "well idk maybe i should get it cuz the Johnson & Johnson is the safest one" and the "my wife is making me get it" faggots and the only thing that ends up happening is we let them know the spike protein & graphene oxide are going to fuck them up anyway." (a) "I think any "positive" results your bosses are perceiving are coming from anons just getting tired of dealing with you assholes so we move on to other threads. Also, there are so many shills on this board that i think you've just created an echo chamber of shilling and that's skewed your results to your liking." (a) "Do you actually know how many shills are in a thread at any given point, given that there are so many teams of cunts operating at the same time? If you do that would indicate central coordination coming from the glownigger mods themselves." (b) "I think I see where you are going with this. I dont want self-doxx, thank you very much." (a) "So VPN rather than proxies?" (b) "Nice try." (a) "You're doing a great service. Now let's cut to the god damn chase. How is this shit reversed? What is the thing that absolutely unnerves shills? What causes you to say "fuck this" and go elsewhere?" (a) "How is this shit reversed?" (b) "Take a deep breat and observe, no shilling can survive mindful and rational investigation. Additionally, if you know they are shilling the shill looses its power." (a) " >What is the thing that absolutely unnerves shills?" (b) "Shills use hit-and-run technique, they cant be unnerved" (a) " >What causes you to say "fuck this" and go elsewhere?" (b) "Thats the goal! The goal is to make any place of uncontrolled discussion less-interesting for the discerning visitors." "This technique was used on two places on Reddit that I can describe in detail." (c) "I will say you guys have done an incredible amount of damage to NIAID. I don't know what secret conspiracy is going on, but it was always obvious the most likely explanation for covid was that it came from an accidental lab leak. Maybe not even the lab that's being pointed at. On paper, the vaccines provided are a good idea when you don't know exactly what we are dealing with. There's been too much political garbage coming out from Fauci and others. I've been told that complex and nuanced explanations are no good for the public because psychology doesn't work that way. Maybe not, but now because of this shilling nobody will trust anything we say for a generation." (a) "you should dox your employers" (b) " >freelance" (b) "You mean I should fucking doxx myself?" (a) "Whatever soulless chink I hope your shiny BMW is worth eternal damnation." |
| C00052 | Infiltrate platforms | Detect and degrade |
| C00053 | Delete old accounts / Remove unused social media accounts | remove or remove access to (e.g. stop the ability to update) old social media accounts, to reduce the pool of accounts available for takeover, botnets etc. |
| C00056 | Encourage people to leave social media | Encourage people to leave spcial media. We don't expect this to work |
| C00058 | Report crowdfunder as violator | counters crowdfunding. Includes ‘Expose online funding as fake”. |
| C00059 | Verification of project before posting fund requests | third-party verification of projects posting funding campaigns before those campaigns can be posted. |
| C00062 | Free open library sources worldwide | Open-source libraries could be created that aid in some way for each technique. Even for Strategic Planning, some open-source frameworks such as DISARM can be created to counter the adversarial efforts. |
| C00067 | Denigrate the recipient/ project (of online funding) | Reduce the credibility of groups behind misinformation-linked funding campaigns. |
| C00077 | Active defence: run TA15 "develop people” - not recommended | Develop networks of communities and influencers around counter-misinformation. Match them to misinformation creators |
| C00093 | Influencer code of conduct | Establish tailored code of conduct for individuals with many followers. Can be platform code of conduct; can also be community code. |
| C00133 | Deplatform Account* | Note: Similar to Deplatform People but less generic. Perhaps both should be left. |
| C00135 | Deplatform message groups and/or message boards | Merged two rows here. |
| C00155 | Ban incident actors from funding sites | Ban misinformation creators and posters from funding sites |
| C00160 | find and train influencers | Identify key influencers (e.g. use network analysis), then reach out to identified users and offer support, through either training or resources. |
| C00162 | Unravel/target the Potemkin villages | Kremlin’s narrative spin extends through constellations of “civil society” organizations, political parties, churches, and other actors. Moscow leverages think tanks, human rights groups, election observers, Eurasianist integration groups, and orthodox groups. A collection of Russian civil society organizations, such as the Federal Agency for the Commonwealth of Independent States Affairs, Compatriots Living Abroad, and International Humanitarian Cooperation, together receive at least US$100 million per year, in addition to government-organized nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), at least 150 of which are funded by Russian presidential grants totaling US$70 million per year. |
| C00172 | social media source removal | Removing accounts, pages, groups, e.g. facebook page removal |
| C00189 | Ensure that platforms are taking down flagged accounts | Use ongoing analysis/monitoring of "flagged" profiles. Confirm whether platforms are actively removing flagged accounts, and raise pressure via e.g. government organizations to encourage removal |
| C00197 | remove suspicious accounts | Standard reporting for false profiles (identity issues). Includes detecting hijacked accounts and reallocating them - if possible, back to original owners. |
| C00203 | Stop offering press credentials to propaganda outlets | Remove access to official press events from known misinformation actors. |
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(b) "Read "Dumbing us down"
It might be difficult to undo the effects of education but it is possible through practice in my opinion."
(a) "Thank you, I will check that out. Since you mention education, I assume the thesis of the piece gets toward the idea that imagination and critical thinking has been stomped out of the populace during early education?"
(b) "Think of it this way. There are two ways of looking at world.
1. Procrustian (mostly Left brain: CommonCore)
2. Holistic (mostly Right brain: pre-war GrammarSchools)
3. Synergistic (Playing with both 1 and 2: ancient Greece, Vedic)
Critical thinking requires 3.
Current aim is to monopolize 2. so 3 could be monopolized too. The aim is mostly accomplished."
(a) "Yeah, I'm taking a look at the main thesis now. This is a fucking based reading suggestion."
(a) "How nervous are you about an "irregular" regime change leading to people who are not fond of "mercenaries" getting access to your tax and bank records?"
(b) "Good question. > What is Monero?"
(a) "What proportion of updoots on big subreddits are bots? You know, the ones with tens of thousands of upvotes that present the illusion of a consensus on a controversial topic."
(b) "OOOOOOOhhhh now Plebbit is what I can answer about with flexibility.
The updoots on plebbit is (mostly) like a survey conducted by your government.
It is, behind the screen and in bigger subplebbits atleast, meant to give a measure of what people have to think instead of what they people think.
Updoots are also used for behavioural conditioning and behavioural recognition. I do not have a number for bots, as sockpuppets have too been automatized."
(b) "Now that they are planning to go Public a lot of furniture is being polished"
(c) "So fucking wot emoji's do the same thing everything is being monitored and fed back into the fucking sperg matrix look at the result fucking chaos, money printers are literally melting down to keep the horror show on the rails..."**
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Resources and Links
Chatham House UK publishes a chronology of Pepe the Frog's evolution as a meme - April 22, 2023
I found Chatham House's ridiculous article about Pepe the Frog when searching startpage.com for a logo of cogsec.org.
The article was written April this year which added to its ridiculousness.
Chatham House supplied the siege nazi kommando pepe frog meme used in this article's thumbnail title.
Thanks Chatham House! I swear I wont tell anyone where my super spicy rare siege nazi kommando pepe frog meme came from!
I am a freelance shill AMA - 4chan/pol whistleblower spills (.gif link here) - August 22, 2021
DISARM Framework Explorer: TA15 "Establish Social Assets"
I promised to not overwhelm my dear readers and I meant it. Apologies in advance but if you could please conclude my article by taking this last important asset for your ongoing education (archive.4plebs.org thread linked here).
One last chunk of information to be shared with my dear readers!
If you'd please indulge my exuberance to allow for one last epiphany to be shared! I assure you it's valuable and uncanny!
And I promise I'll shut up, zip it and sit down once you cast your eyes over this final penultimate puzzle piece!!!
This artist's name is Helen Shewolf Tseng and she designed the visual branding for COGSEC conference, March 4-5th, 2021.
Her choice for COGSEC's primary logo was... a Northern Mockingbird.
Cute, huh?
This is a tour de force. I have spent a couple hours reading and re-reading parts of this post, and wonder how many AMA's you are collating. Where does the Framework come from?
You've undertaken a great deal of effort to lay out the Q&A in a more logical form, which is quite difficult granted nuance and aspects of discourse that poorly transfer across subjects. I really appreciate the very deep dedication to integrity that underlies this endeavor. It speaks highly to your character.
Thanks!
Edit: I only realized the light cast on my nescience by the reply you made to your post after I posted my comment. Do please forgive me.
when I need to make sense of memory neurotransmitters suddenly firing on all synapses from the need to make a link, I go tour de force.
No need to ask for forgiveness but forgiven you are!
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