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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.

More concretely, a bunch of Scottish nationalist accounts were unearthed as Iranian by the recent X location switch-on

So true, can this be adapted to detect Hasbara?

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.

I worry even more about native propaganda bots honestly. Just because they are native it doesn't mean they aren't pushing a massive agenda, and they have even more motivation to do so.

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

JIDF was a geocities website by a random rabbi in his basement

The website is irrelevant

That’s terrible. There’s no war/conflict but the class war.

Worry about these countries don't worry about Israel? Doesn't Israel fund both sides of fueling political division?

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