Keeping Bias, Manipulation and Fake News Out of Your OSINT Analysis

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Published on April 4, 2021 5:45:01 AM ● Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t1e9CzPC4-o

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Bias, manipulation, and disinformation permeate social media, traditional media, and most online content. Open source investigators and analysts must be acutely aware of how these factors influence the content they evaluate for collection. Biases can have a detrimental impact on intelligence collection and analysis but there are simple techniques that OSINT practitioners can use to help recognize bias in themselves and others and concrete steps to mitigate the impact. Through case studies, this presentation examines how bias is exploited to manipulate social media consumers and to spread disinformation. We also examine some OSINT tools and tradecraft that can be used to expose disinformation and combat online manipulation.

Heather Honey @H2OSINT, President, Haystack Investigations

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