US seizes 92 domain names used by Iran's Revolutionary Guards (IRGC) as part of the regime's global disinformation campaign (Full list below) Good move @TheJusticeDept (Also consider taking down Intelligence Ministry-operated domains like Iran-Interlink) https://www.justice.gov/.…
DoJ seizes domains used by Iranian disinfo efforts — 4 sites were focused on US, they argue this is a FARA violation. There's a bunch f clunky stuff here. Wonder if they will apply this to other nations because I mean... https://www.justice.gov/...
Catching up: US seized 92 domains they say were used by Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps. Some old friends in the list, notably the IUVM network, which basically repackaged Iranian state messaging. Not subtle, but prolific. https://www.justice.gov/...
The US seized 92 domain names used by #Iran's IRGC to spread pro-Iranian regime propaganda in the US. These 4 seized sites pretended to be “independent news:” newsstand7 dot com usjournal dot net usjournal dot us twtoday dot net https://twitter.com/...
Two years we published the “Global Disinformation Operation”, an operation attributed by us to Iran, and spread fake news worldwide. Yesterday the @TheJusticeDept seized the domains and confirm that #IRGC was behind this operation. https://www.justice.gov/... https://twitter.com/…
Facebook, Twitter, and Google team up with the FBI to seize the domains of anti-Saudi, anti-Israeli, and pro-Palestinian websites. Is there some Middle-East-Foreign-Policy exception to the first amendment that I don't know about? https://www.bloomberg.com/...