Thread by @HackingButLegal

Listen up y’all. We need to shift the anti-gay, anti-trans crowd into pro-Putin, anti-Ukraine folks.

Here’s the playbook ⬇️

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#disinformation

Step 1, set the stage and communicate the message. Check the engagement.

Did it rile up our target audience Fantastic!

Feb 23:

Step 2, give the orders to social media foot soldiers to disseminate at scale.

Use our established far-right influencer
network with 100's of thousands of
individual/millions of combined followers.

Feb 23:

Step 2, in published order, please note the timestamps.

Feb 24:

Step 2, continued, in published order, please note the timestamps.

Feb 24:

Step 2, continued, in published order, please note the timestamps.

Feb 24-25:

Step 3, get opinion pieces published
(laundered) in the most high-profile outlets possible.

Continue dissemination (via those with more credibility than social influencers) to appear to be picking up a narrative we NEED ppl to believe originated ~organically~ on social media.

The media will certainly catch on to this, but by that time we'll be on to the next thing.

cc @transscribe @daveyalba

Despite the media doing their job, the influence operators' stratagem continues to be "flooding the zone with shit', which is difficult to counter and distinguish from organic commentary.

For bonus points, here is an overt response from an intel agency subtly demonstrating their understanding of this op and willingness to use it as a battleground.

X2 bonus: specific complaint from a pundit at the most prominent outfit to launder this influence operation to date.

These accounts have 100s of 1000s, sometimes more than 1m followers.

They receive orders on these narratives & how to promote them, using media power in a coordinated & simultaneously opaque fashion to create impressions of legitimate discourse.

Rinse and repeat next week!