1. #abuserstrategy is similar to #DARVO (deny, attack, reverse victim and offender), a pattern of behavior theorised by Pr. Jennifer J. Freyd in the 90s to understand why #GBV victims are denied justice.
https://dynamic.uoregon.edu/jjf/defineDARVO.html

At about the same time, 🇫🇷 feminists from the Collectif Féministe Contre le Viol (CFCV) were theorising another version of the pattern. I find more helpful bc. it includes the end-goal (impunity), and can be extended to support groups (of the victim and perpetrator)

#abuserstrategy has 5 pillars:

- isolate targets from their support systems (or isolate support groups from each other)
- discredit targets and their support
- reverse guilt (offender becomes *the true* victim*)
- instill terror (#coercivecontrol etc)
- ensure impunity (jurisdictions of law, public opinion).

#disinformation #Russia #Prigozhin

2. #coercivecontrol, is, again, a pattern of behavior. Theorized by Evan Stark to understand how perpetrators of #GBV use various tools and means over a continuum of spaces and time (in a nutshell).
This is what some would call "hybrid" or "full spectrum warfare"
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1077801218816191

The term 'coercive control' is relatively new, and way before Stark theorised it, activists in Duluth, Minnesota developed the "Power and Control Wheel"
#DuluthModel
https://www.theduluthmodel.org/wheels/

#disinformation

3. #CoerciveControl is about wielding power
#AbuserStrategy is about legitimacy to commit crimes and not be held accountable for them.

In the current information space, legitimacy = visibility, or: the capacity to accumulate and retain attention capital.

This does not need to be a sophisticated process, it just has to grab our attention.
(see my interview in @lemonde
https://www.lemonde.fr/les-decodeurs/article/2022/04/09/desinformation-russe-peu-importe-que-le-faux-soit-grossier-pourvu-qu-il-capte-l-attention_6121341_4355770.html )

Domestic tyrants, for example, demand that all attention focuses on them.