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What to expect when you're electing: The building blocks of disinformation campaigns

Summary: Cisco Talos released a research paper titled "The building blocks of political disinformation campaigns," following its four-year investigation into election security and a prior paper, "What to expect when you're electing." The paper examines the major types of players involved in disinformation campaigns, the tools and tactics they use to organize and carry out operations, and how they attempt to avoid detection on common social media platforms.

Why it matters: Talos frames disinformation as one component of adversaries' key geopolitical objective: weakening faith in Western-style democracy, and notes that internet distribution lets deceptive messaging reach curated audiences anywhere in the world in real time.

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