Grad Student @UniHeidelberg | Milton Wolf Emerging Scholar | Former USDOS Intern | Research Analyst | #Disinfo #Politics #Society | she/her | Tweets my own
Jul 23 • 8 tweets • 2 min read
🧵Hacking malicious hashtags for #Harris.
Studies of information warfare behavior can be used to counter malicious coordinated online attacks. Essentially, supporters of Harris are "commanding the trend" by appropriating malicious hashtags.
When malicious users “command the trend”, they utilize the platform's algorithm, which curates a list of trending topics, to spread a narrative “outside a particular social cluster of true believers”.
Prier, J. (2021). Commanding the Trend: Social Media as Information Warfare.
