The false claim that Russia had somehow altered the election in Trump’s favor through Facebook ads was a popular media disinformation conspiracy theory that dovetailed neatly with the Clinton campaign’s attempt to have the Obama administration spy on Trump associates using the false claim of Russian involvement.
While the Russian ads mainly occurred after the 2016 election and targeted black people, Iran did run efforts to undermine President Trump.
Iranian hackers have been targeting U.S. state government websites in “an intentional effort to influence and interfere with the 2020 U.S. presidential election,” according to an investigation by the FBI and the Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA).
The hackers have “successfully obtained voter registration data in at least one state,” the FBI and CISA advisory report published Friday said.
And beyond hacking efforts, the Iranian agenda was pretty blatant.
The Iranian hackers suspected of posing as the Proud Boys and sending threatening emails to potentially thousands of American voters accessed voter registration data in at least one state, US federal officials said Friday evening.
Some threatening emails that were sent last week to voters in multiple states, including Florida and Alaska, read, “You will vote for Trump on Election Day or we will come after you.”
The emails were made to look as if they had been sent by the Proud Boys, a hate group embraced by President Donald Trump at the first debate, but were actually the work of Iranian hackers, US intelligence and law enforcement agencies announced last week. Some of the emails included the home addresses of the voters the messages were sent to.
Now a new report mentions that Iran was almost as active on Facebook as Russia.
In terms of volume, networks originating in Russia and Iran comprised the largest share of what Facebook calls “Coordinated Inauthentic Behavior,” the report says, with 27 Russian and 23 Iranian networks shut down. Facebook doesn’t attribute all the campaigns to governments, but many of the Russian and Iranian campaigns had all the hallmarks of intelligence influence operations, private researchers said.
Yet in terms of what we hear from the media, it’s 99% Russia and 1% Iran.
gravenimage says
Iran’s Fake News Machine Was as Active on Facebook as Russia: Why Don’t We Hear About It?
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Damn good question from Daniel Greenfield.
OLD GUY says
Death to America say’s it all. Why would our government want to send 75 million in aid to our enemy. Any aid sent to an Islamic country should be STOPED. We can’t buy our way out of this hate and power hungry islamic world domination fight. Muslim leadership see us as weak when we don’t stand up to them or when we send them funds to buy peace with them.
Our political leaders must be getting kick backs or they are just outright traitors to the American people. Either way we need to set term limits and stop the campaign funding by corporations and super pacs. Right now our politicians represent the MONEY groups only not the people or the safety of America.
Peace says
If we don’t give the 75 Million they will hate us just as much as if we do give them 75 million …
Giving them 75 million only makes it easier to carry out their B.S., makes them think we are frightened of them & makes them think we are cowering to their superiority …
Bidens handlers can’t be so thick as to think of the first big thing they do after handing them that 75 million that’s it’s not going to get interpreted as Biden financing terrorism ….
Question :-
How thick do you have to be to be a Biden Handler & what’s the pay ???
Andrew Blackadder says
muslims around the World, citizens or Governments, are denigrating America, Israel and Jews everywhere, and then they post their vile hate on Facebook, which is owned by an American Jewish guy that lives in America…. can anybody here see the disconnect?.
Tell me again, please, what has islam, or muslims, brought to the World recently, or ever, that has been of benefit to the peoples of Planet Earth… I,ll wait…