In r/osint, returning and new practitioners are converging on disinformation and cognitive warfare as a priority domain, emphasizing coordination detection and network mapping before debunking narratives, plus structured verification and corroboration workflows.
This is arguably the most important OSINT domain right now, especially given what's unfolding with the Iran conflict where information operations from multiple state actors are running simultaneously.
Has anyone attempted to investigate and research the growing trend of disinformation for the purpose of behavioral manipulation and radicalization both from domestic and international threat actors?
Network mapping before content analysis. Most people start by reading narratives and trying to debunk them. That's backwards.
Start with the infrastructure: who amplifies what, coordination patterns (same timestamps, copy-paste text, shared URL short
The source evaluation framework they teach (especially the section on corroborating information across independent sources) is something that comes up constantly in real investigations.
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