Reuters has a well publicized report on Iran's disinformation campaign which was researched by the news agency. It is interesting because it is not just a report by government agencies somewhere. They actually did research and found sites distributing the material. As the report says, "The sites found by Reuters are visited by more than half a million people a month, and have been promoted by social media accounts with more than a million followers."
The proof of Iran's involvement is a little thin, but summarized this way: "But all the sites are linked to Iran in one of two ways. Some carry stories, video and cartoons supplied by an online agency called the International Union of Virtual Media (IUVM), which says on its website it is headquartered in Tehran. " They couldn't find this place, which points to that being a front. They have a chart that shows the destination for this propaganda and it tells us more than the rest of the article, and traced some of the information about the sites.
From their description, this is obviously well financed by somebody. It sounds like the Russian interference in different countries of the world, but since a number of countries are doing this now, it is more difficult to find the originator. It could be Iran.
Good for Reuters. They tried to do this on their own and the story is good ink.
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