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.

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elemdos 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

I don’t buy psy-ops unless it’s American-made

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mdni007 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

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ifidishshbsba 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

So true, can this be adapted to detect Hasbara?

	▲	greenavocado 4 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Ask the person you are arguing with to denounce certain things and the response is often informative

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testdelacc1 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

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.

	▲	rozab 3 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		More concretely, a bunch of Scottish nationalist accounts were unearthed as Iranian by the recent X location switch-on
	▲	FilosofumRex 3 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
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kortilla 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

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.

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austin-cheney 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

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.

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AngryData 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

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.

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greenavocado 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

JIDF never disappeared, it merely got a fresh coat of paint and disappeared from the public eye

	▲	BergAndCo 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		JIDF was a geocities website by a random rabbi in his basement

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Waterluvian 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Those all did concern me. These days they concern me far less than the U.S. I’ve got to prioritize my foes.

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ipaddr 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

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