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© 2019 The MITRE Corporation. All Rights Reserved. Approved for Public Release; Distribution Unlimited. Case Number 18-03361-4.
MITRE’s Experience
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MITRE is investing in addressing the intentional spread and amplification of disinformation
MITRE▪ Not-for-profit
▪ Working in the public interest for 60+ years
▪ Building social media analytics for14 years (first publication)
▪ Social technologies patented (4) and licensed (10) for the public interest
MITRE believes protecting the information and news infrastructure is a critical
global challenge
A trusted third party✓ Aviation Safety Information Analysis and Sharing
Program (ASIAS)✓ Serves as a central conduit for the exchange of data
and analytics✓ Establishes key safety benchmarks✓ Results are shared with ASIAS participants (airlines)
https://portal.asias.aero/web/guest
✓ ATT&CK is a knowledge base of adversary tactics and techniques based on real-world cyber security observations
✓ Used as a foundation for the development of threat models and methodologieshttps://attack.mitre.org/
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Crimson Hexagon
Joint Study with the Alliance for Securing Democracy (#1)Impact of Inauthentic Behavior in Social Media on Anti-Feminist Issues as it Relates to the EU Elections
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Amplification of anti-feminist disinformation across social media platforms, countries, and languages
Source: Crimson Hexagon, Botometer, Rest-Sleep-Comment (RSC), MITRE hashtag tool
La Pildora Roja “The Red Pill”
Feminismo Científico “Scientific Feminism”
Mereces Saberlo“You Deserve to Know”
Mereces Saberlo
Gender-based violence (somewhat suspicious)
The Red Pill/MGTOW “Men Going Their Own Way”
Men’s Rights Activism (Broader EU Narrative)
Misogynist Views
TwitterInstagram
Blog
Spanish
UK
HU NL+
ESES
“Real” gender-based violence data show that women are violent and lie about rape and abuse and “deserve to know” the true statistics
Women and society have become hostile against masculinity
Antifeminist content linked to EU-related populist,
racist, anti-migrant, and anti-muslim content
Bot amplification of tweets and URLs
“Nikola Tesla (hero)”“anti-abortion”
“distorted wage gap”“anti-Gillette campaign”
Spain/Spanish-centric
antifeminist movement
Pan-EUantifeministmovements
Activity showed connection to gaming communities
(Subreddits, Twitch, Discord)
2 May 2019
26 Feb 2019
4 Apr 2019
Female oppression is a myth and men are the ones holding the short end of the stick
Overlap in topic
EnglishWomen’s/Men’s Rights (highly suspicious)
Botometer
RSC
ARES
ES
MITRE hashtag tool
Showing strong dislike or prejudice against women Backlash
against feminism
Datesillustrative
Feminismo Científico
AR
Blog
13 Dec 2018
13 Dec 2018
13 Dec 2018
29 Apr 2019
15 Jan 2018
“snip feminist vocal cords”
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“Hung drawn quartered”
“Hung drawn quartered”
B*tch/Witch
Progressive ovaries… get
raped
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Anti-feminist disinformation hate speech across social media platforms, countries, and languages
Source: Crimson Hexagon, MITRE HatEval
Tumblr
Forum
Blog
News
Swedish MP said “All men are rapists”
“So Central Europe is starting to give way tothe pro EU, pro feminism dumbf*cks?”
SE
UK
SK
MITRE HatEvalNews
HatEval enabled identification of suspicious YouTube
Italian politician “who takes her baby into parliament with her… represents a f*ckingfascist party and you shouldn’t reblog it anymore”
Antifeminismo, un arma electoral de éxito
“Antifeminism, a successful electoral weapon”
SK
IT
ES
C*nt/Tw*t
“The Male version of
Hillary or Merkel,
spineless Macaroni”UK
Derogatory portrayal of female politician
Biased portrayal of female politician
Offensive Language Towards Women/Men (highly suspicious)
FR
UK
Derogatory portrayal of female politician 8 Nov 2019
Crimson Hexagon
EnglishSpanish
Datesillustrative
14 Apr 2019
13 Mar 2019
Gender-based violence (highly suspicious)
Women’s/Men’s Rights (highly suspicious)
UK
Feb 2019
Antifeminismo, un arma electoral de éxito
14 Nov 2018
8 May 2019
18 Apr 2019
18 Mar 2019
13 Jul 2018
13 Nov 2018
Joint Study with the Alliance for Securing Democracy (#2)Impact of Inauthentic Behavior in Social Media on Anti-Feminist Issues as it Relates to the EU Elections
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Each category has challenges. What are the definitions? What are the edge cases?
Difficulty of Monitoring Environment for Harmful Content
Enga
gem
en
t
Allowed Content Prohibited Content
For each topic, modality, and platform!For each topic…
Impersonation of Person / Brand
Pornography/ Sexual Services
Abusive Behavior / Violent Threat
Self HarmPrivacy Infringement
PlatformAbuse
PromotingCrime
Child Privacy / Exploitation
Coordinating Harm
InauthenticAccounts
For each modality…
Categoriesof Harm
Notionalordering
of platforms
What does the linelook like for each
category of harm?
RemoveAccounts
RemoveContent
Standardization of categories for Facebook and
Twitter based on Terms of Service
(see backup slide)
Lines arefuzzy
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Platform Approach for Disinformation “Game”Platform to Foster Shared Knowledge and Common Action Against Disinformation
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Removal of inauthentic accounts will push adversaries to the bottom of the red triangle
An Alliance with a Response Framework➢ Develop industry wide standards➢ Share threats across social media platforms➢ Coordinate actions➢ Share information across infrastructure sectors
Detecting Influence Operations Across Social Media PlatformsA. Detect inauthentic accounts across social media platforms by topic (as done in example)B. Monitor environment for harmful content in text and media (next slide)C. Go beyond current terms of service to analyze data to detect influence operationsD. Setting standards with social media platforms can improve detection
Easy Bots created by anyone
Curated Bot networks
Easy “Sock puppets”
Curated“Sock puppet”
Human-Like
AIdetection
insufficient
Divisive
Harmful
Criminal
Amplification
Abusive Behavior / Violent Threat
Co
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Acc
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$
$$$$
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Influence Operations strategies:False news sites, Spread misinformation, Flood
channels, Inauthentic accounts, Others…
Disinformation spectrum: Inauthentic account/bot spectrum:
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Facebook Only
Source: https://newsroom.fb.com/news/2019/05/enforcing-our-community-standards-3/
Where do we go from here?
Abusive Behavior / Violent Threat
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Stronger together
Transatlantic Vision on Disinformation with the Atlantic CouncilNeed for Alliance in Addressing Global Disinformation
Strengtheninformation/news infrastructure,
businesses/economies,and democracies/countries
by reducing the effectiveness of disinformation campaigns
Vision What would the alliance do?
Members
Social Media Platforms
News Media
Nonprofits
Fact Checkers
Academics
Analytic FirmsPPPP
SectorsP
In Discussions
Others?
▪ Archive data sets that are removed by social media platforms
▪ Earlier sharing of information on disinformation threats and work together, following cyber security model
▪ Perform cross social media platform analysis
▪ Develop industry-wide standards for addressing disinformation
▪ Use common data sets to assess threats
▪ Engage globally
▪ Engage in activities to empower the public
▪ Other?
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Jennifer Mathieu, PhD
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From Facebook and Twitter Terms of Service
Sale of counterfeit goods
Promoting crimeSelling regulated goods
Gambling
Spammy, or just plain fake / Account security at risk
Tied to false individuals and organizations
Abusive tweets or behavior
Tied to dangerous individuals or organizations Coordinating harm
Spam and system abuseViolation of Twitter ads policy
Unauthorized trademarkUnauthorized copyright
Private information posted Self harm
Abusive behavior / violent threats
Harassment
Impersonation of person / brand
Sexual services
PornographyPrivacy infringement
Child nudity Child sexual exploitation
Privacy toward children Child sexual exploitation
Not allowed on social media
platforms
Impersonation of Person / Brand
Pornography/ Sexual Services
Abusive Behavior / Violent Threat
Self HarmPrivacy Infringement
PlatformAbuse
PromotingCrime
Child Privacy / Exploitation
Coordinating Harm
InauthenticAccounts
Remove Accounts
Remove Content
From company terms of service
Legend
Note, Facebook enforcement report has different categories
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