Archive of stories published by misinfosec

Who handles misinformation outbreaks?

Misinformation attacks— the deliberate and sustained creation and amplification of false information at scale — are a problem. Some of them start as jokes (the ever-present street sharks in disasters) or attempts to push an agenda (e.g. right-wing brigading); some…


Writing about Countermeasures

The AMITT framework so far is a beautiful thing — we’ve used it to decompose different misinformation…


We’re not at war — we’re just doing infosec

I read three connected things today: the digital Maginot line, about how we’ve been in a digital “warm war’ for the past few years, why influence matters in the spread of misinformation, and are ads really that bad?.

These were the top 10 stories published by misinfosec; you can also dive into yearly archives: 2018, 2019.