Iran social media strategy pivots to information war amid US-Israel attack

Cyber experts say influence operations in ‘asymmetric’ campaign to intensify moral pressure on US and Israel Middle East crisis live – latest updates Iran has radically overhauled its social media strategy in an all-out information war launched by the country’s Islamic rulers in response to US and Israeli military attacks. Cyber experts say Iranian foreign influence operations have gone into overdrive as part of an “asymmetric” campaign designed to complement its military retaliation and in...

By Robert Tait in Washington

Iran shifts social media network from sowing Western discord to promoting war propaganda

According to the study, 24 hours after the start of hostilities between Iran, Israel, and the United States, accounts in this campaign began posting Iranian propaganda about the war.