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'Advanced Persistent Manipulators
Similar to the challenge APT actors have posed to information and cyber security professionals, social media companies now face malign actors that can be labeled as Advanced Persistent Manipulators (APMs) on their platforms. (See Figure 1.) These APMs pursue their targets and seek their objectives persistently and will not be stopped by account shutdowns and platform timeouts. They use combinations of influence techniques and operate across the full spectrum of social media platforms, using the unique attributes of each to achieve their objectives. They have sufficient resources and talent to sustain their campaigns, and the most sophisticated and troublesome ones can create or acquire the most sophisticated technology. APMs can harness, aggregate, and nimbly parse user data and can recon new adaptive techniques to skirt account and content controls. Finally, they know and operate within terms of service, and they take advantage of free-speech provisions. Adaptive APM behavior will therefore continue to challenge the ability of social media platforms to thwart corrosive manipulation without harming their own business model.'
