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Pamment & Tsurtsumia (2025) - Beyond Operation Doppelgänger

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🧵 Why Our Defenses Are Misaligned: What We’re Still Getting Wrong About Disinformation

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Beyond Operation Doppelgänger (Pamment & Tsurtsumia, 2025)
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What to change:

– Track capabilities, not just content
– Invest in narrative threat analysis
– Educate on framing and emotional manipulation
– Build resilience between elections, not just during them

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Mistake 2: We ignore capability

SDA isn’t a botnet.

It’s a designed, modular enterprise with narrative development, targeting, and performance review.

To respond, we need to track how influence is built—not just what it says.

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We’re fighting a 2025 disinformation threat with 2016 tools.

While hostile actors build modular influence firms like SDA, Western defenses still chase surface content.

Here’s where we’re misaligned—and what needs to change.

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Thread 5: Why Our Defenses Are Misaligned

We’re still chasing posts.

But the threat is structural: strategic actors, layered influence, long timelines.

The solution isn’t content moderation. It’s capability awareness.

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