Reuters has an exclusive today on the scope of the Iran Influence Campaign, designed to foster positive attitudes, and beliefs about the Iran Nuclear Deal and other issues. They had content in 11 different languages. Social media has not done well at identifying these entities but has responded when they were pointed out. Twitter said it had deleted a total of 770 accounts. Google reported their efforts earlier.
"A Reuters analysis has identified 10 more sites and dozens of social media accounts across Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and YouTube." The use of al-Manar TV run by Hezbollah, was an unpleasant surprise. Just for information about obfuscation of source material, this article is well worth reading. The Iranians went undetected for several years, so either nobody was looking for them, or they were really good at concealing their sources. See also post on FireEye report.
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