Robert Wright reports that Facebook’s head of “counterterrorism policy,” Brian Fishman, has offered an explanation of why the social media giant blocked the Instagram accounts of high-ranking Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps officers. When I asked Fishman to justify this policy, he said it’s designed to keep Facebook on the right side of the law, which...
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Social Media ‘Soft War’: The Syrian Presidency Says Its Instagram Account Has Been Blocked
The war of social media is heating up. The CIA will soon add an Instagram account to join its Twitter feed in dispensing Langley’s spin to the wold. Britain’s version of the NSA, the General Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) already has an Instagram account. But woe to America’s foes. Iran’s state broadcasting outlets, including PressTV, have...
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Puppies and Covert Ops: Edward Snowden Explains Why the CIA Just Made an Instagram
I thought I was the only one bothered by the fact that the CIA has a Twitter account, which effectively serves as a domestic propaganda channel, and that the agency plans to add an Instagram account soon. I have company: Edward Snowden. In a podcast with the tech site Motherboard, the NSA whisteblower explained why...
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Google Joins Trump Campaign Against the Iranian Press
Google seems to be aligning itself with the Trump administration in its efforts to isolate and demonize Iran. The search giant is removing Iranian state media from YouTube Iran’s Press TV reports. On Thursday, Google removed 39 YouTube channels linked to the Iranian state broadcaster [Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting or IRIB]. Google terminated those...
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Facebook Praises the MEK, an Iranian Cult Movement Known for Killing U.S. Citizens
Facebook has a foreign policy, and it seems to skew toward Israel and Iranian crackpots. Last month, the social media giant announced that (with the advice of the Atlantic Council’s Digital Forensic Lab [DFRLab]) it had removed 783 assets — pages, groups, and accounts — that the company assessed to be associated with an Iran-based network for “coordinated inauthentic...