MISSION: PSYOP RESPONSE

The Call To Adventure

As members of Cyberhate Research Division teams, your help is needed for a very important mission. Read up on the planned 4chan psyop.

Your mission is to determine if certain accounts are fake, bots, or sockpuppets. If they are, they can be used for this psyop, and you must report them so they cannot be repurposed for hate.

Here is more briefing information that we will go over together.

(CONTENT WARNING: racist, ethnic and religious slurs--this is how people on hateful forums communicate.)

Entering the Unknown

You will be assigned an account to evaluate. Click on the username (after the @ symbol) to get yourself acquainted with who this account represents. On first read, do you think this account can be repurposed for this psyop?

• Amonda prunelle @alexand80839444
• Anne-Marie GM @annemarie_gm_1
• Brian white @Brianwh15349260
• kaysanes @jane54488673
• Kimbalinmai @kimbalinmai2
• Sanchez Jane @sanchezjane8

Meeting the Mentor

These accounts are sneaky. Read through this further briefing document by former CIA analyst Cindy Otis.

Transformation

From your read of Analyst Otis's briefing document, develop a set of criteria for determining if your team's account might be some sort of bot. Then evaluate the account by including plenty of evidence and make a final determination of BOT or NOT BOT.

Mastery

Good work.

Now let's apply some of that understanding to another psyop, the #NotMyAriel controversy from July 2019. Read through the briefing documents below.

Now let's look at a major player together to determine if it is a bot or not.