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Google acts against Iranian influence operation

Google says it has disabled dozens of YouTube channels and other Google accounts linked to a state-run Iranian broadcaster for a political influence campaign.

 

The company said Thursday that it disabled 39 YouTube channels, as well as six blogs on Blogger and 13 Google Plus accounts. Some of them were sharing English-language political material in the United States.

 

The security firm FireEye says the overall operation originates from Iran but is aimed at audiences in the US and elsewhere to promote Iranian interests.

 

Google says its own forensic research shows the accounts were set up by actors associated with the state-run Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting, or IRIB.

 


פרסום ראשון: 08.23.18, 23:48