Comment by nostrademons 3 days ago
Would assume it's to check if a site is foreign propaganda. A lot of the lesser-known news sites that you see linked on social media are actually psy-ops pushing an agenda, many of them foreign-based. Follow the technique in the article and you can easily blacklist Iranian ones.
Why are people in the (presumed) West particularly afraid of the propaganda of a Middle Eastern country? Is the intelligence/propaganda unit there so good that they can program minds from a different continent better than Western oligarchs? This has got “Russia stole American democracy with millions worth of FB ads” vibes to it.
But if there is an easy technical implement to avoid some propaganda then good on them I guess. Why not. One less thing to worry about.
Dozens of Scottish independence X accounts ‘went dark’ after Iranian internet blackout (https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2025/06/25/scottish-ind...)
Iran is actively working hard to make us hate our fellow citizens. That matters.
Ask the person you are arguing with to denounce certain things and the response is often informative
If you’re in any western democracy you should worry about propaganda bots from Iran, DPRK, Russia, and China.
They have well known active operations of helping fuel the flames of political division by amplifying both sides of extremely divisive topics.
If you’ve ever engaged in flame wars about abortion, brexit, Scottish independence, the Ukraine war, the Gaza war, etc, there is a really good chance there were many participants from one of those parties.
Everybody spies and attempts psyops campaigns. I am much more concerned about nations that actively and massively attempt to exploit US election interference: Russia and Israel.
Those all did concern me. These days they concern me far less than the U.S. I’ve got to prioritize my foes.
JIDF never disappeared, it merely got a fresh coat of paint and disappeared from the public eye
I don’t buy psy-ops unless it’s American-made