#ForumThreads
🧵 Operation Overload: A Case of Coordinated Inauthentic Behavior Designed to Waste Time

Some disinfo campaigns aren’t built to convince the public.

They’re built to overload journalists, distract fact-checkers, and dilute verification capacity.

This one did all three.
May 15, 2025 at 2:44 PM
May 19, 2025 at 4:38 PM
And unless we shift the incentives, truth will keep coming in second.

#Disinformation #MediaEconomics #Stiglitz #ForumThreads
#InfoIntegrity #AttentionEconomy #DigitalSmarts #PublicGoods
May 16, 2025 at 9:02 AM
Because the danger of disinformation isn’t just that people believe it.

It’s that we all live with the consequences.

#Disinformation #EpistemicJustice #MediaLiteracy #InfoDisorder
#SocialContagion #PluralisticIgnorance #CivicResilience #ForumThreads
May 15, 2025 at 7:02 AM
Next up:
🧵 How programmatic advertising works—and why it’s perfect for disinformation

#Disinformation #AdTech #ProgrammaticAds #ForumThreads
#Clickfraud #InfoIntegrity #DigitalEconomy #MediaLiteracy #AdDisinfo1
May 16, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Next, we look at a different strategy:

A TikTok-based campaign that used AI-generated audio and 12,800 coordinated accounts to attack a Ukrainian official.

#CIB #Disinformation #InfluenceOps #CheckFirst #DigitalForensics
#InfoIntegrity #MediaManipulation #ForumThreads #VeraAI
May 15, 2025 at 2:36 PM
Next: final thread in this series—what these cases teach us about recognizing CIB and building public resilience through pattern awareness.

#CIB #Disinformation #SaveTheChildren #QAnon #InfluenceOps
#NarrativeLaundering #DigitalSmarts #ForumThreads #VeraAI
May 15, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Otherwise, the truth remains someone else’s problem—until it’s everyone's.

#Disinformation #Externalities #Stiglitz #ForumThreads
#InfoIntegrity #MediaEconomics #PublicGoods #DigitalSmarts
May 16, 2025 at 8:47 AM
Source:
Shaki et al. (2024)

A Game-Theoretic Model of Campaign Priming

arxiv.org/pdf/2412.1...
#VoteFocus3 #MediaLiteracy #IssueSalience #ForumThreads
May 18, 2025 at 11:44 AM
Next: Thread 2 — Operation Overload.

A campaign built not to persuade the public, but to waste the time of those who defend the truth.

#CIB #Disinformation #DigitalForensics #MediaManipulation
#VeraAI #InfoIntegrity #InfluenceOps #ForumThreads #MediaLiteracy
May 15, 2025 at 2:16 PM
Thread 1: Why the Market Fails to Protect Truth

Markets underprovide public goods like clean air, safe streets—and reliable news.

Disinformation thrives because outrage pays, truth doesn’t.

Search: ForumThreads + Stiglitz + Market Failure
May 16, 2025 at 11:13 AM
Source:
Shaki, Aumann & Kraus (2024)
Voter Priming Campaigns: Strategies, Equilibria, and Algorithms
arxiv.org/pdf/2412.1...

#PrimingPower4 #Disinformation #ForumThreads #MediaLiteracy #AttentionPolitics
May 20, 2025 at 11:54 AM
Thread 4: What Governments Should—and Shouldn’t—Do

Stiglitz supports public funding for journalism, not state control.

The goal is infrastructure, not ideology.

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May 16, 2025 at 11:13 AM
Source:
Beyond Operation Doppelgänger: A Capability Assessment of the Social Design Agency - Pamment & Tsurtsumia (2025)

mpf.se/psychological...

#DeceptionByDesign1 #Disinformation #NarrativeWarfare #ForumThreads #PsychologicalOperations
May 19, 2025 at 3:17 PM
Stay informed. Stay critical.

Because in the fight against disinformation, knowledge is our most powerful tool.

#Disinformation #PublicGoods #Stiglitz #ForumThreads
#InfoIntegrity #MediaEconomics #DigitalSmarts #CivicLiteracy
#DemocracyResilience #EpistemicInfrastructure
May 16, 2025 at 9:47 AM
Because the danger of disinformation isn’t just that people believe it.

It’s that we all live with the consequences.

#Disinformation #EpistemicJustice #MediaLiteracy #InfoDisorder
#SocialContagion #PluralisticIgnorance #CivicResilience #ForumThreads
May 15, 2025 at 7:02 AM
Next up:
🧵 The stories marketers tell themselves to justify it all—“sociotechnical imaginaries” and the myth of neutrality.

#Disinformation #AdTech #ProgrammaticAds #ForumThreads
#Clickfraud #InfoIntegrity #DigitalSmarts #MarketingEthics #AdDisinfo2
May 16, 2025 at 3:14 PM