Haven't had the chance to read the full thing yet but this is awfully interesting. Stanford conducted a study on GRU tactics on Facebook and found that they are highly skilled at "narrative laundering" but need a 2nd party like Wikileaks to have success. fsi-live.s3.us-west-1.amazonaws.com/s3fs-public/po…
"Fancy Bear’s own Facebook posts about its hack-and-leak attack on the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA), for example, received relatively little engagement, but write-ups in Wired and The Guardian ensured that its operations got wider attention."
"collaboration with Wikileaks and press outreach played a much larger role in capturing public attention. In the case of DCLeaks in particular, it becomes increasingly clear that media, not social media, had the most significant impact on amplifying that hack-and-leak operation"
