I often lament that we lacked a "9/11 Commission" for 2016, as it would have likely found that poor collaboration across gov/tech/civ society/media was a root cause.

This report is based upon the work of the teams at Facebook who hunt for organized disinfo actors. https://twitter.com/alexstamos/status/1301939068020826112

There are teams at Facebook and Twitter that use data only available to the platforms to find coordinated activity. They share that data with external researchers to add context and link in external datapoints that wouldn't be appropriate for companies to include.

Twitter and Facebook are the only companies to regularly work with researchers and provide evidence from takedowns. Pretty much every other company, if they find anything, takes care of it quietly and benefits from the assumption that their hands are clean.

The RIRA takedown announced by Facebook came from an FBI tip, so collaboration is definitely improving.

We should be careful about making judgments based upon data only provided by a handful of companies, and need to create incentive structures that encourage transparency.

John Carlin, former head of the DOJ National Security Division, and I had a good discussion on @PreetBharara's podcast network about the 2016 coordination problem and how this is still an issue for Congress to to fix in 2021. https://cafe.com/cyber-space-podcast/cyber-space-with-alex-stamos/