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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Pamment & Tsurtsumia (2025) - Beyond Operation Doppelgänger
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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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🧵 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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