# Cyber Swarm **Entity class:** Online coordination and diffusion concept **Maturity:** Developing ## Definition A **cyber swarm** is a rapid, distributed surge of online activity in which many accounts, communities, or participants amplify a target, narrative, or coded meme. Coordination can be explicit, emergent, automated, or mixed; synchronized volume alone does not settle which mechanism produced it. ## Relationships - **studied by:** [[wiki/Network Contagion Research Institute|NCRI]]. - **related to:** [[wiki/Algorithmic Amplification|Algorithmic Amplification]], [[wiki/Memetic Theory|Memetic Theory]], and [[wiki/Complex Contagion|Complex Contagion]]. - **observed through:** [[wiki/SOCMINT|SOCMINT]] and [[wiki/Real-Time Observability|Real-Time Observability]]. ## Sources / Provenance - [[research/A Network-Epidemiological Analysis of Radicalization and Real-Time Counterterrorism Observability|Network-Epidemiological Analysis]]