Warren Kinsella: How Iran stage-manages anti-Israel campaigns in West

Around the same time, in late 2024, Meta — the company that owns and operates Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp — shut down a sophisticated Iranian influence operation run by the dictatorship’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard. Meta’s Threat Disruption Center revealed that Iran, aided and abetted by Hezbollah, was running multiple fake accounts across Meta’s platforms as well as on TikTok, X, and others. An IRGC-controlled front company had been flagged by Israeli cyber intelligence as the source of threats, via emails and texts, against Israeli athletes at the Paris Olympics. Iran had also fabricated a website purporting to be The Jerusalem Post and was using artificial intelligence to push out fake narratives about Israel. Iran-supported Hezbollah, they said, also created fake sites and even purchased thousands of dollars of advertising on Facebook and Instagram. Hezbollah’s propaganda, which originated with its media outlet in Lebanon, promoted stories suggesting that Israeli society was breaking up and that the Jewish state was experiencing food shortages.