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Google Removes Accounts Tied To Iran-Led Misinformation Campaign (engadget.com)
In a blog post, Google shared an update regarding its efforts to combat state-sponsored phishing attacks and to remove accounts associated with an influence operation linked to Iran. Engadget reports: The company said that in recent months, it has detected and blocked state-sponsored groups from targeting political campaigns, journalists, activists and academics with phishing attempts. Google has also been working with the cybersecurity group FireEye, which has been providing Google with information on an Iran-based misinformation operation. FireEye identified three email accounts, three YouTube channels and three Google+ accounts linked to that operation, which Google subsequently took down.
In conjunction to the intelligence provided by FireEye, Google also investigated other suspicious groups linked to Iran. The company identified and removed 39 YouTube channels, six Blogger blogs and 13 Google+ accounts it believed to be connected to the Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting. Relevant videos on the now-terminated YouTube channels had garnered 13,466 views in the U.S. Facebook and Twitter were also made aware of the Iranian operation. Twitter announced that it suspended 284 accounts believed to have originated from Iran for "engaging in coordinated manipulation." Meanwhile, Facebook said it removed "652 pages that it says were linked to a campaign originating in Iran, as well as an unspecified number of accounts liked to Russian military intelligence services," reports Engadget.
In conjunction to the intelligence provided by FireEye, Google also investigated other suspicious groups linked to Iran. The company identified and removed 39 YouTube channels, six Blogger blogs and 13 Google+ accounts it believed to be connected to the Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting. Relevant videos on the now-terminated YouTube channels had garnered 13,466 views in the U.S. Facebook and Twitter were also made aware of the Iranian operation. Twitter announced that it suspended 284 accounts believed to have originated from Iran for "engaging in coordinated manipulation." Meanwhile, Facebook said it removed "652 pages that it says were linked to a campaign originating in Iran, as well as an unspecified number of accounts liked to Russian military intelligence services," reports Engadget.
Iran isn't accused of helping Trump collude to disenfranchise US voters, so are Republicans ready to admit the fact that Iran is attempting to influence us? That seems to be the sole source of their doubts about Russia, that anything Putin "did wrong" that they admit "exists" might ultimately be tied to Trump knowing about it and covering it up incompetently in front of Mueller. (It's hard to keep up with their bullshit platform frankly)
Is a duty of ALL Muslims. It is written in the Noble and most Holy Qur'an.
We are told fake news were removed, but we have no sample of the suppressed speech so that we can make up our own mind about it. It looks a lot like censorship.
An influencer campaign that uses Google+ accounts? I donâ(TM)t think we have much to worry about.
https://www.fireeye.com/content/dam/fireeye-www/blog/pdfs/rpt-FireEye-Iranian-IO.pdf
Seems like the main crime they committed was supporting Palestine, and opposing human rights violations in Saudi Arabia.
"Multiple regionally focused Liberty Front Press Twitter accounts
have retweeted content from the original affiliated Twitter
accounts (@libertyfrontpr and @libertyfrontp) that contained,
for example, anti-Saudi, anti-Israel, pro-Palestine, and antiTrump
sentiments."
Oh no, how ever shall our democracy survive an anti-Saudi tweet! SHUT IT DOWN!
You're afraid of the fact checking, because all of Republicanism is now afraid of the fact checking. You can't survive it.
Neckbeard just tried to vouch for a coordinated disinformation campaign, and Trump did that today also verbatim. You are too stupid to fact check for yourselves anymore, it appears. Yes, it's a dangerous problem.
I can't solve your stupidity or factual problems to make you less likely to succumb to manipulative authoritarian bullshitters, and you are programmed not to listen to anyone who disagrees. It's an impasse, but you lose.
In the end the truth comes out, whether you can handle it or not!
How sad to see slashdot reduced to spouting neocon cyber-büll-shít :[
"South Africa President Cyril Ramaphosa announced earlier that the ruling political party, the African National Congress, had agreed to a proposal to alter the country's constitution and allow for land expropriation, or seizure by the government, without compensation", reports ABC News.
The official South Africa government Twitter account added:
"South Africa will speed up the pace of land reform"
It seems someone told you some fake news.
The funny thing about propaganda, it has a shred of truth. However Trump didn't stop at truth, he tweeted that the government was sanctioning the murder of white farmers to redistribute their land. It's complete dogshit.
You didn't post what the supremacists' BS included, you reported on the small shred of truth and left the spiel out. Ray Morris, DO you have a problem becoming an actual functional male, with functional gonads and integrity?
It's mostly BS with a hint of truth :
There IS a government program to expand black ownership of farms, but it (obviously, you fucking moron) doesn't work as Trump or your white supremacist faggot shit source asserted. (Truth hurts liars exclusively bruh)
White farmers who own 72% of South Africa's farmlands, a holdover from apartheid, and who don't measure significantly in South African homicides as victims.
Certainly the government isn't targeting them for death, you fucking moron lol.
Try fact checking for a change - Trump could have learned this lesson a while back but like all moronic fascists he refuses to learn that something he wants to believe isn't actually true, lol. Enjoy the Mueller indictments!
"Oh I want to sit down with him, of course I do..." - Ray Morris supports this lying cunt? Of course! He SAYS he's innocent and for all Ray's willing to fact check, that's entirely true! Lol, moron.
Failbook and Twatter acting on behalf of US intelligence is not something to be proud of.
How come they'll do nothing about the "White Helmets"? This one is as "inauthentic" a group can get, and a really big influence campaign as well. Their goal, largely successful for now : to make the public support war and violently overthrowing a government. ... I found this site because they were censored on twitter! Or whatever accounts twitting its content. I don't particularly care about this site nor do I vouch for its quality.
What they like to do when they're not being "heroes" who save children : https://en.insidesyriamc.com/2017/11/24/famous-white-helmets-fb-accounts-exposed-look-into-their-eyes-again-photos/
So White Helmets should be banned by a concerted effort from Failbook, Twitter, Apple and Google. But it's funded by US intelligence, MI5 and a number of other countries all or mostly NATO. They don't get banned!
Instead of sending all these Facebook/Twitter postings down the memory hole, they should just flag them: "These are posts which we have reason to believe originated with Iranian operatives" (or Russian military, or whatever they think it is). Give people the option to hide these posts, or to browse them, or whatever they want to do. Personally, I'd be curious to look at them, at least briefly. It could perhaps lead me to be better informed about what the various state actors are up to on social media. It would certainly do a lot to raise public awareness of that problem.
The current solution sucks, since it does nothing to raise awareness of the problem, and raises the possibility that Facebook is engaging in censorship for their own reasons. As others have observed on this thread: it smells a little gamey when Facebook says "We're going to delete all these posts because we think they originated with [x]. No, we're not going to tell you why we think that".
The solution to speech you don't like is to add more speech of your own. The solution is never to suppress the speech you don't like.
They are removing the Iranians under the pretense of 'security'
Then they will target someone else --- the Chinese, the Pakis, the Africans, the Buddhists, the ...
When it's all done, they'll ban the conservatives (actually they have started to do so)
Then the Christians will be next on the list
By the time they start targeting the LGBT there will be no one else to voice objection
If you want to see Iranian disinformation requoted as fact.... go turn on Fox News. You might think I'm kidding, but no,....
https://money.cnn.com/2018/07/03/media/fox-news-trump-obama-iran-deal/index.html
If you want fake news watch Fox News, but Google don't have to copy Fox fake News.
The satanic arch-z-onist who owns Facebook stated that the so-called 'Iran' accounts were removed because they had a pro-nuclear treaty 'bias'- you know that treaty that Trump illegally tore up.
Of course the depraved war criminal who rules in Isr-el told America they had to destroy that treaty "or else". It is amatter of historic fact that the sick racist state of Isr-el gave the racist white despots of Apartheid era South Africa Isr-eli built nuclear warheads, warheads that South Africa gave up when it went to majority rule.
Facebook banned Alex Jones- a hyper z-onist who publishes slander against Iran daily to help promote the coming Iran War- in order to set a precedent by which it could then erase all problematic anti-war pages. In the last week a growing number of LEFT-WING anti-war blogs etc have found themselves banned by tech giants. Jones, of course, runs a massive operation in Austin Texas alongside no end of mainstream media operations and military-industrial propaganda outlets. His 'banning' merely drove more traffic to his site (as desired). But the real targets of the new censorship, thousands of tiny free speech outlets in many anti-establishment directions, know they are dead if they do not "toe the line".
Trump is only under apparent 'legal' trouble to give him the 'Bill Clinton' style excuse when he starts the war on Iran, the war craved by the leaders of the Democratic and Republican parties. The war Hilalry Clinton promised to deliver if she was elected president.
You will be seeing an even greater level of Iran demonisation by Slashdot in the coming weeks.
at least one US-lead disinformation campaign, this is censorship on behalf of the US government, and nothing else.
Remember Iraq having nukular weapons, ready to strike in under 4 hours? Remember "Alkaida operating out of Baghdad"? Remember "Syria chemical weapons facilities bombed", when the said facilities were inspected by OPCW months early and declared clean? Remember Hans Blix?
All these lies were used as excuses for massive wars, which brought an enormous amount of suffering. In combination, the propaganda and the wars are a crime against humanity.
But where's the outrage?
Washington loves the two most depraved states on the Earth equally, Isr-el and Saudi Arabia. And the z-onists and wahhabis are blood brothers. Slashdot is just another media mouthpiece for the one, and thus the other. Every day Slashdot tries to demonise Iran.
The excuse given by the z-onist owners of Facebook for banning the 'Iran' accounts was that they dared to support the Iran nuclear treaty.
I'm reminded of when Tony Blair blew up the Serbia equivalent of the BBC HQ (civilian TV centre) because the station dared to run programs criticising Tony Blair's Kosovo War, and dared to show images of the thousands of civilians Blair murdered in Serbia. The actual BBC stated the bombing was justified (many many civilian workers were slaughtered) because the Serbs had no right to tell the truth when it ran against 'british' propaganda interests. Indeed it was a BBC foreign correspondent who phoned back to confirm all the foreign journalists had left the target building for the night, so the RAF could then murder ever civilian Serb who remained in the HQ. Jill Dando- a BBC journalist who fronted the anti-serb war propaganda- was murdered at her home in revenge shortly afetrwards.
Or perhaps you prefer the example of Loony Tunes cartoons that used nazi-style racist imagery to demonise the people of Japan during WW2.
In a time of WAR, the 'enemy' is to be denied a voice regardless of truth. The tech giants know the war on Iran has actually begun, and are acting accordingly.
Killings are at a 20 year low! http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-white-farmers-20180823-story.html (LEARN TO READ REPUBLICAN FAGGOTS, IT'S LITERALLY THE CURE FOR WHAT AILS YOU DUMB CUNTS.)
Yes, Trump has ACCESS to information - but he doesn't read it, and relies on Fox News BULLSHIT parroting white supremacist faggots instead, and looks like a moron for doing it in front of the world.
*(Filter error: Don't use so many caps. It's like HELPING LYING REPUBLICAN FAGGOTS LEARN TO READ!)
You want to crawl up Trump's lying faggot ass, go right ahead moron, I won't stop you. You have a choice to be a moron, like all Republicans in this era.
Last chance, bitches. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/last-chance-republicans/2018/08/23/5c2fc152-a6f7-11e8-a656-943eefab5daf_story.html
This is exactly why I love /.'s -1 moderation. You can still see the posts if you want to, but generally don't have to.
Ignore most posts on this story, there is a clear deception/distraction campaign here. The truth of this story comes from reading the article and finding related ones with more information. This website has been compromised by both Iranian and Russian paid liars.
sure..while US based WMD information is endorsed and further propagated
No Ray, the government program to increase black farm ownership exists, but nobody is being murdered by the South African government to accomplish that unlike what Tucker Carlson reported and Trump repeated.
And now YOU have added YOUR name to the pile of lying faggots, that's very interesting.
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Kidding, but who trusts google on this?
Google have been actively helping/working with the DNC on the last election.
Currently one of googles AI labs is making 'automated opinion steering'. Which are both bots and flagging any topic which can be used to market a political opinion. (ie one found you can get multiple paid writers in to try and sway opinion)
So knock them out of the ballpark!
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Poor Iranfowars! Always getting beat up.
Watch for Penguins, they eat Apples and throw rocks at Windows.
If they don't do anything against US/UK misinformation campaigns that just proves they are acting on behalf of said campaigns.
Here you go.
Oh oops, that wasn't fake news, only a reminder of the garbage humans that are paid to shit on forums. See the title of your response? That's trash from the gutter you just picked up and posted for everyone to see.
The key points here are 1. differentiating information campaigns and misinformation campaigns and 2. what to do about them.
Information campaigns should not be stopped, even if they are done on behalf of a government or by government agencies.
Misinformation campaigns should be labeled so and links to definite proof of why said information is untruthful should be attached.
Anyone censoring others and claiming it was because it was misinformation is doing exactly what the Chinese government does.
It's at a 20 year low, sorry, you're a LYING FAGGOT GUMMER! :D
It seems like the esteemed president has created two new armed forces to keep our minds safe from dirty commie and brown people propaganda. I for one welcome our new freedom overlords.
Kill the Satanic monster!
Hey if they come for your land and offer unreasonable or non-existent compensation it's not a problem; One can simply choose to get shot, get imprisoned, or starve to death after having their livelihood ripped away from them with the threat of government implemented violence. That seems fair. Don't you think so AC?