2020-05-08
IRIB-affiliated network's targets briefly included the 2014 referendum on Scottish independence, about which a handful of accounts posted pro-leave content including several cartoons portraying then PM Cameron as “the embodiment of English oppression”, according to @Graphika_NYC https://twitter.com/...
NBC News
Report: Facebook posts from 2012 show Iran's national broadcaster trialed a US political influence campaign via 300+ fake accounts, years earlier than thought
in 2012!!! https://public-assets.graphika.com/ ... https://twitter.com/... @4ngl3rf1sh : 1/ Facebook Downs Inauthentic Cluster Inspired by QAnon Below are some key elements from th...
2020-04-26
“I can prove that @Huawei sold to #Iran.” The msg & the brief discussion that followed touched on an explosive issue for Huawei that had just begun fighting allegations by US that it committed fraud to bypass Iran sanctions. Within wks, Chinese police arrested all 5 in the group. https://twitter.com/...
New York Times
Two former Huawei employees, who had labor disputes with the company, say they were detained by China after discussing Huawei sales to Iran in a WeChat group
China arrested five former employees who had discussed the tech giant's Iranian sales in a chat group, raising questions about its government ties. Tweets: @hadinili , @mdubowitz ,...
2020-02-04
could mean many Iranian users were at risk: twitter says some ppl were using large network of fake acc's to exploit its API & match usernames to phone numbers- high vol of such requests coming from addresses in Iran, Israel, & Malaysia, w/ possible ties to state-sponsored actors. https://twitter.com/...
TechCrunch
Twitter says it has suspended “a large network of fake accounts” and many others for abusing an API feature that let them match phone numbers to usernames
Twitter announced today that over the holidays it identified and shut down “a large network of fake accounts,” …
2018-01-02
The channel attracted more followers over the last few days, getting something around 1.5 million followers. Telegram, w/ something between 25 to 40 million users in Iran, is the major platform for news & communications where the media is highly regulated. http://twitter.com/...
Recode
Telegram, citing ToS, suspends public channel that incited violent anti-government protests in Iran; Telegram is a major platform with ~40M users in Iran
“There are lines one shouldn't cross,” says the CEO of the popular messaging app. — The executives of Telegram …
2018-01-01
The channel attracted more followers over the last few days, getting something around 1.5 million followers. Telegram, w/ something between 25 to 40 million users in Iran, is the major platform for news & communications where the media is highly regulated. http://twitter.com/...
Recode
Telegram, citing ToS, suspends public channel that incited violent anti-government protests in Iran; Telegram is a major platform with ~40M users in Iran
“There are lines one shouldn't cross,” says the CEO of the popular messaging app. — The executives of Telegram …