📰 Disinformation as a service: BlackCore sells influence campaigns

Public opinion has officially gone up for sale. Researchers from Citizen Lab have uncovered the activities of Israeli company BlackCore, which has moved disinformation from intelligence services' toolkit into conventional B2B services. Now any paying client can access a full information warfare cycle: from creating hundreds of convincing fake profiles to artificially suppressing unwanted narratives, complete with detailed efficiency reports.

📢 How the disinformation factory works

The fake campaign management process is structured like a classic advertising agency. Instead of crudely selling inactive accounts, BlackCore implements complete infrastructure. Neural networks generate avatar faces for social media, writers craft coordinated messages, and algorithms artificially boost posts. This system lets clients quickly simulate mass support or destroy a competitor's reputation by flooding the space with aggressive noise.

Operations follow professional standards including target audience analysis, multi-platform deployment, engagement metrics tracking, and polished final deliverables presented as corporate reports. It is information manipulation packaged like any other enterprise service.

❔ Why this matters for everyone

The main risk lies in increasing accessibility of these methods on the open market. When tools for suppressing opinions and dominating agendas sell as corporate subscriptions, it becomes nearly impossible to distinguish genuine social movements from paid digital illusions.

The implications extend far beyond corporate competition. Political campaigns, public health messaging, and social justice efforts can all be drowned out by manufactured consensus funded by undisclosed actors.

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