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The number of tanks actually deployed, a U.S. Army official confirmed, was significantly less than 100. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Made up of personnel across divisions and in tandem with partner nations, the team now faces a growing number of disinformation campaigns from Russia that senior Army officials said are an attempt to destabilize allies\u2019 governments. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cIf not handled properly, the spread of misinformation and disinformation about our mission, units and people has the potential to discredit everything we\u2019re trying to accomplish with our partners and our allies,\u201d said Col. Joseph Scrocca, a spokesman for U.S. Army Europe. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In the months after the Sputnik campaign, a multi-pronged information campaign and cyberattack hammered newly deployed troops in NATO\u2019s Enhanced Forward Presence mission in Poland.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The attack targeted soldiers&#8217; social media accounts and created a fake blog site from the unit\u2019s commander. Local news outlets in Poland published the disinformation as credible news. Army officials worked with the Polish Ministry of Defense and the U.S. Embassy to counter the campaign and debunk each story. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">After the attack, the Army created a \u201cbattle drill\u201d designed to outline detailed steps for each staff section to complete if they identified a disinformation campaign or cyberattack. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A network of \u201csensors\u201d monitor news across the continent \u2014 from embassy teams to military partners. Staff then analyzes each attempt for severity, impact and truth and provides recommendations to leadership for best responses. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cIdentifying these incidents or being able to negate them early is the real strength of the team,\u201d said Beth Clemons, the chief of the U.S. Army Europe public affairs media division.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The team consists of military media personnel and contractors who monitor stories, narratives or themes that could hurt Army operations. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The group works closely with staff from information operations, intelligence, the international operations division and subordinate units as well as staff from operations, force protection, anti-terrorism. Host nation militaries, U.S. embassies and experts at higher headquarters and other organizations are also involved. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The team is \u201cvery selective\u201d in calling information fake news, Clemons said, because often these attacks aim to seek attention and develop an audience and the fake news label could help garner that attention.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cYou can\u2019t play whack-a-mole with every little blog post or you will just add oxygen to a tiny flicker that will naturally go out,\u201d Clemons said. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.atlanticcouncil.org\/programs\/digital-forensic-research-lab\/\">Atlantic Council\u2019s Digital Forensic Research Lab<\/a> is working with the Army to identify and contain attacks. That lab tracks global disinformation campaigns, fake news stories and covert military developments.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Established in 2015 as an open-source research organization, the non-profit now helps fight disinformation campaigns, said Lukas Andriukaitis, the Atlantic Council\u2019s associate director. Every week lab staffers track narratives against NATO troops in Baltic countries, he said. Their task is not to combat every post but to uncover larger operations. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In May 2019, the lab worked with Facebook to publish findings of a large-scale influence operation against allied governments that spanned nine languages, over 30 social network and blog platforms, and produced large numbers of fake user profiles and identities. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cIt remains disturbingly simple for malicious actors to create false profiles on these platforms and use them as a launch pad for disinformation,\u201d the report found. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Although the lab could not attribute the operation to a specific group, they concluded the approach resembled an operation by a larger intelligence service. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cMilitaries have bigger problems with digital security,\u201d Andriukaitis said. \u201cThey are big targets, and these are big, robust organizations that are not as quick to respond as a private company.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Army is relying more on groups such as the Digital Forensic Research Lab, NATO\u2019s Strategic Command Center of Excellence and <a href=\"http:\/\/StopFake.org\" target=_blank>StopFake.org<\/a> to collaborate and engage the growing threat from adversaries. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThe biggest success story of this [Mis\/Dis Tiger Team] has been the expansion of our network and increased sharing of information and teamwork,\u201d Clemons said. \u201cThe strength is the team and it\u2019s a team that grows every day.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An Army tiger team faces a growing number of disinformation campaigns from Russia that senior service officials said are an attempt to destabilize allies\u2019 governments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":75883,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_yoast_wpseo_meta-robots-noindex":"","_yoast_wpseo_meta-robots-nofollow":"","_yoast_wpseo_canonical":"","_acf":"","_yoast_wpseo_primary_category":14,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_smg_distribution_targets":{"5":{"categories":["daily-news-roundup","newsletters"],"primary_category":"daily-news-roundup"},"10":{"categories":["daily-news-roundup","newsletters","europe","global"],"primary_category":"daily-news-roundup"}}},"categories":[106,29,14,32],"tags":[],"coauthors":[7646],"class_list":["post-25929","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-brief","category-home","category-information-warfare","category-newsletters"],"acf":{"subheadline":"","legacy_arc_id":"AAQPAKMNU5DWZAHM3PG6KPX2HU","arc_canonical_url":"\/information-warfare\/2020\/03\/19\/us-army-europes-growing-challenge-fight-fake-news-and-misinformation\/","remove_feature_photo":false,"is_sponsored":false,"subtype":"","redirect_url":"","disable_inline_ads":false,"native_logo_pretext":"Presented By:"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.0 (Yoast SEO v28.1) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>US Army Europe\u2019s growing challenge? 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