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# CVSS-like Scoring System 

Each metric (bold) comes with meaning, value range and corresponding [CVSS](https://www.first.org/cvss/specification-document) metric if any.

### 1. Base Metric Group

#### Exploitability
- **Propogation channels**:
    - Corresponding CVSS metric: *Attack Vector*
    - Meaning: How can the misinfo got spread. Usually, the more channels, the more severity.
    - Value Range: 0-10, based on how many channels are involved during propagation.
- **Difficulty to distinguish**
    - Corresponding CVSS metric: *Attack Complexity*
    - Meaning: How deceptive can the misinfo be? (This includes both how true is the misinfo, and how good it sugar-coated itself.)
    - Value Range: 0-10 ( or not deceptive at all, only a small part is deceptive, most part is deceptive, the entire campaign is deceptive).
- **Targeted people**:
    - Corresponding CVSS metric: *Privileges Required*
    - Meaning: Is the misinfo targeting average people, or targeting specific groups?
    - Value Range: 0-10, based on how many groups of people are targeted. (Maybe: high, medium, low/none)
- **Relevance**
    - Corresponding CVSS metric: *User Interaction* 
    - Meaning: How relevant is the misinfo? Is it close to target group's life so that they will definately spend time reading the misinfo, or it is not relevant/funny enough so that most people may neglect it?
    - Value Range: 0-10
- **Campaign Focus**
    - Corresponding CVSS metric: *Scope*
    - Meaning: What is the objective/pupose/aim of such misinfo campaign? Are they planning to  cause large harm/impact?
    - Value Range: 0-10, depending on 1) how many targets, 2) are these targets malicious 
- **Actors**
    - Corresponding CVSS metric: N/A
    - Meaning: Who initiated such misinfo campaign?
    - Value Range: 0-10, based on how many actors and how strong these actors are (e.g. government actors are stronger than conspiracy group)

#### Impact
Thoughts: In CVSS, this metric group describes the effects of a successfully exploited vulnerability on the component that suffers the worst outcome that is most directly and predictably associated with the attack. To make a comparable metric group for misinfo campaigns, I think we need to consider: 1. chronological analysis: harm / impact already happend + will / may happen; 2. Harm level: Humanity (all human) -> Civilization (Most human) -> Country (Bil people) -> City (Mil) -> Neighborhood (less than K); 3. Affairs influenced: Health? Lives? Economy? Mental? Political? etc.
- **Existing Impact**
    - Meaning: Impact already happend
    - Value Range: 0-10 (or the humanity to neighborhood measurement)
- **Potential Impact**
    - Meaning: Impact will/may happen, by analysing potential victims.
    - Value Range: 0-10 (or the humanity to neighborhood measurement)
- **Harm level**
    - Meaning: How bad are the overall harm and loss, including life loss, economy loss, political loss, science loss (maybe?).
    - Value Range: 0-10 (or we could use estimated economic loss number instead) (high/low)
- **Affected affairs**
    - Meaning: What kinds of affairs are affected? Health? Lives? Economy? Mental? Political? etc.
    - Value Range: 0-10
- **Exposure**:
    - Meaning: How many people are actually affected by misinfo?
    - Value Range: 0-10 (or goes by the similar humanity to neighborhood measurement)


### 2. Temporal Metric Group
Current state of misinfo exploits and remediation level.
- **Exploit Chance**
    - Corresponding CVSS metric: *Exploit Code Maturity*
    - Meaning: The likelihood of the misinfo used for malicious purpose.
    - Value Range: 0-10 (or Low/Medium/High)
- **Remediation Difficulty**
    - Corresponding CVSS metric: *Remediation Level*
    - Meaning: The difficulty/hope of fighting against the misinfo by proper rumor refuting.
    - Value Range: [Not Defined, Unavailable, Workaround, Temporary Fix, Official Fix]
- **Report Confidence**
    - Corresponding CVSS metric: *Report Confidence*
    - Meaning: The degree of confidence in the existence of the misinfo and the confidence in the report.
    - Value Range: 0-10 (or [Not Defined, Confirmed, Reasonable, Unknown])

### 3. Environmental Metric Group
These metrics enable customization of the score, makes it more flexible.
- **Information Requirements**:
    - Corresponding CVSS metric: *Security Requirements*
    - Meaning: Based on **Impact Metrics**, but could override the existing metrics.
    - Value Range: [Not Defined, Low, Medium, High]
