Iranians Impersonated Bernie Bros, Vowed to Stop Kavanaugh

[DonViejo]

Source: The Daily Beast



One apparent Iranian account disguised itself by slamming the Republican party for allowing a Holocaust denier to run for a seat in the California legislature.

ADAM RAWNSLEY
08.21.18 10:45 PM ET

An Iranian propaganda campaign created fake Bernie Sanders supporters online, Facebook disclosed on Tuesday.

In a press release, the social media giant said it had removed 652 pages associated with political influence campaigns traced to Iran, including coordinated inauthentic behavior that originated in Iran and targeted people across multiple internet services in the Middle East, Latin America, UK and US.”

The cybersecurity company FireEye, which first alerted Facebook to the influence campaign months ago, wrote in a separate posting on its site that it had traced the campaign — including posts from supposed “American liberals supportive of U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders” — to Iran through email addresses and phone numbers associated with the “inauthentic” accounts.

The investigation began with FireEye’s discovery of a fake U.S. news outlet called “Liberty Front Press,” which Facebook says was created in 2013. The actors behind that site over time branched out into different personas intended to appeal to different audiences including “anti-Saudi, anti-Israeli, and pro-Palestinian themes.” Examples included accounts like "The British Left" which published content in support of U.K. Labour party leader Jeremy Corbyn and the pro-palestinian "Patriotic Palestinian Front." FireEye also says it “identified multiple Arabic-language, Middle East-focused sites” as part of the effort.

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[Blue_Tires]

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[Fred Sanders]

2. Little mention of America...

"For example, one part of the network, “Quest 4 Truth,” claims to be an independent Iranian media organization, but is in fact linked to Press TV, an English-language news network affiliated with Iranian state media. The first “Liberty Front Press” accounts we’ve found were created in 2013. Some of them attempted to conceal their location, and they primarily posted political content focused on the Middle East, as well as the UK, US, and Latin America. Beginning in 2017, they increased their focus on the UK and US. Accounts and Pages linked to “Liberty Front Press” typically posed as news and civil society organizations sharing information in multiple countries without revealing their true identity."

And no evidence of extensive election interference here, other than the Bernie support group...just the facts, please.