.Twitter and Meta take down pro-U.S. propaganda campaign targeting Middle East
A research paper written by the intelligence company Graphika and Stanford Internet Observatory documented a network of hundreds of accounts across several different social media networks, including Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, Telegram, YouTube, and more. These accounts targeted U.S. adversaries, mainly Russia, China, and Iran, creating fake personas and organizations to spread narratives against them in contested areas such as Central Asia and the Middle East.
The network provided an "axis of evil" style narrative, frequently finding ways to link Russia, China, Iran, and the Taliban or criticizing several of them at once. For example, China was accused of causing Russia's invasion of Ukraine by some accounts, while Russia was accused of helping the Taliban at the expense of Central Asian nations. Russian and Chinese"imperialism" were frequently decried. Meanwhile, U.S.
Unproven stories that Afghani bodies were returned from Iran with organs missing were heavily promoted. Accounts targeting Iraq claimed that Iran was flooding the country with crystal meth. Some findings by Graphika and Stanford leave clues as to whom the culprits were connected. The group targeting Iran frequently shared links to a website that researchers assessed"with high confidence" was the latest rebranding of a website part of an open U.S. government propaganda campaign called the Trans-Regional Web Initiative.At least one account openly claimed that it previously operated on behalf of U.S. Central Command. Another finding that the U.S.
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