If you take one thing from this:
Today’s disinformation is designed.
Not just to mislead, but to drain trust, fracture cohesion, and erode shared reality.
We don’t need better reactions.
We need deeper understanding.
#DeceptionByDesign
This series unpacked how Russia’s Social Design Agency (SDA) isn’t a troll factory.
It’s a strategic influence firm—planning, packaging, and delivering disinformation campaigns like commercial PR.
Here’s what we learned.
#DeceptionByDesign
🧵 How Disinformation Became a Service Industry — and Why It Matters Now
#DeceptionByDesign
In this series, we’ll cover:
Why the “troll farm” metaphor misleads
How SDA sells disinformation as a service
Their tools: forged docs, fake outlets, AI visuals
What their campaigns actually aim to do
Why Western responses keep missing the point
#DeceptionByDesign
Disinformation used to look like chaos.
Trolls. Bots. Memes.
But today’s operations are something else: strategic, scalable, and professional.
The leaked inner workings of Russia’s Social Design Agency (SDA) reveal what came after the troll farms.
#DeceptionByDesign
