Panel Recap: Fractured Realities: Democracy in the Age of Foreign Influence, Billionaire Donors, and Disinformation
Fractured Realities: Democracy in the Age of Foreign Influence, Billionaire Donors, and Disinformation “There’s two systems of justice in the U.S. when it comes to foreign influence – there’s one for America’s friends, there’s another for its enemies,” said Ben Freeman, Director of the Democratizing Foreign Policy program at the Quincy Institute. “And America’s friends […]
NIAC Responds to State Department’s Decision to Suspend Funding to Grantee Using Funds to Attack U.S. Civil Society
The suspension of IranDisinfo follows a major astroturf campaign against NIAC last weekend involving hawkish pro-war organizations like Foundation for Defense of Democracies (FDD) and radical diaspora groups like the Mujahedin-e Khalq (MEK) – which operates a social media “troll farm” in Albania.
NIAC Statement on Twitter’s Takedown of Thousands of Fake Iran-Linked Accounts
Washington D.C. – Yesterday, Twitter’s Head of Site Integrity, Yoel Roth, tweeted that the social platform had removed over 2,800 inauthentic accounts originating in Iran. The accounts are thought to be part of a foreign information operations campaign intending to manipulate information for “national or geopolitical ends.” Separately, Facebook also announced it had removed a number of Iranian origin accounts, groups, and pages that had violated its policy prohibiting “coordinated inauthentic behavior.”
Hardline propaganda website misrepresents MP
With a bow to our friends at EA, who regularly post the “shocking news of the day.” From Mir Hossein Mousavi’s Facebook page: Torabi, member of the minority fraction of the Parliament (reformist) and the representative of people of Shahr-e-Kurd), in an interview said that a new website had been launched by the pro-Ahmadinejad hardliners […]