{"id":9919,"date":"2019-06-20T11:12:34","date_gmt":"2019-06-20T06:42:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/?p=9919"},"modified":"2021-01-21T19:27:45","modified_gmt":"2021-01-21T15:57:45","slug":"platform-manipulation-by-the-us-backed-mek-to-launch-war-against-iran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/posts\/9919","title":{"rendered":"\u201cPlatform Manipulation\u201d by the US-backed MEK to launch war against Iran"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cWe want Twitter to be a place where people can make human connections, find reliable information, and express themselves freely and safely,\u201d Twitter help center asserts.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

However, twitter has turned out to be a field for a \u201ctroll farm\u201d of a thousand people inside the camps of Mujahedin Khalq (the MKO\/ MEK\/ PMOI\/ Rajavi\u2019s Cult) who work in three shifts to launch anti Iran disinformation advocating war and sanctions against Iran. Former member of the group Hassan Heirani who left it in 2017 has revealed the fact to various news outlets including the Guardian (November 2018) that have interviewed him.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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And the most recent account on the MEK\u2019s campaign of disinformation against Iran was exposed by Murtaza Hussein of the Intercept<\/a>: The case of the fictional persona Heshmat Alavi who was run by a hundred operators in the MEK\u2019s troll farm. [1]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

This is definitely considered \u201cPlatform Manipulation\u201d. So Twitter suspended the so-called Heshmat Alavi\u2019s account.<\/p>\n\n

Platform manipulation refers to the use of Twitter to mislead others and\/or disrupt their experience by engaging in bulk, aggressive, or deceptive activity, according to the Twitter protocols. \u201cThis activity includes, but is not limited to, spam, malicious automation (malicious use of bots), and inauthentic account abuse (fake accounts).\u201d
\nOn March 2019, Twitter Help Center published an overview of platform manipulation and spam policy, defining it as using Twitter to engage in bulk, aggressive, or deceptive activity that misleads others and\/or disrupts their experience. Twitter\u2019s rule on accounts and identity states: \u201cYou can\u2019t mislead others on Twitter by operating fake accounts. This includes using misleading account information to engage in spamming, abusive, or disruptive behavior.\u201d
\nMisleading people by absolute charlatanism is not a new phenomenon. This has been used far earlier than the social media was created. A Concept like \u201cfreedom fighter\u201d was once manipulated when it turned out to be \u201canother man\u2019s terrorist\u201d. The concept is actually based on the famous proverb: the enemy of my enemy is my friend. That is why a team account run by a terrorist cult-like MEK is introduced as \u201can Iranian activist with a passion for equal rights\u201d in the right wing US media.<\/p>\n

John Limbert former official of US embassy in Tehran states in the American Prospect, \u201cThe MEK has made no secret of its goals: to provoke a war between the U.S. and Iran. In the aftermath, it calculates it would move into the wreckage and pick up the pieces.\u201d [2]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Presenting a story of the MEK\u2019s violent past and its anti-national approaches that has made it isolated among the Iranian public, Limbert warns the US authorities about the threat of the MEK as a violent cult. \u201cFinally, we must never stop asking, \u201cWho is pushing for war with Iran and why?\u201d\u201d, he writes. \u201cThe answer should make it very clear we have no business provoking this conflict to serve the interests of an Iranian cult and its paid spokesman. [3]
\nJason Rezaian of the Washington Post concludes his recent article on the IS-backed trolls on the Internet, \u201cSo, instead of resorting to false narratives and personal attacks, we should cultivate our Iran policy \u2014 because there still isn\u2019t a coherent one \u2014 the old-fashioned way: by making real arguments, backing them up with actual evidence and prioritizing real people over the tactics of manipulation and fraud preferred by authoritarians.\u201d [4]
\nHelen Buyniski of Russia Today editorial warns, \u201cAlavi may have been unmasked, but there could be thousands more where he came from.\u201d Refering to the recent removal of 4,779 Twitter accounts \u201cassociated or backed by Tehran\u201d, she writes, \u201cTwitter\u2019s attempts to aid the US war effort by deplatforming thousands of pro-Iran accounts is an implicit endorsement of their activities. The Intercept\u2019s comprehensive investigation of the Alavi persona<\/a> essentially dropped the key to the MEK\u2019s propaganda network in Twitter\u2019s lap; their refusal to act on this information, merely removing the Alavi account without investigating the swamp of \u201ccoordinated inauthentic behavior\u201d surrounding it, indicates they are content with being weaponized in the US propaganda war against Iran. Trolling is fine, as long as it\u2019s \u201cour guys\u201d doing it.\u201d [5]
\nThe enemy of US enemy is the MEK. It is \u201ctheir guys\u201d because it is perfectly running their policy against Iranian nation. It is considered \u201cfreedom fighter\u201d because it is considered terrorist by the Iranian nation. No surprise when President Trump calls Iranians \u201cnation of terror\u201d and uses the fictional stories fabricated by the terrorist MEK\u2019s fictional persona to justify his policies against the Iranian nation. No matter that the MEK has the blood of thousands of people including six American nationals in its hands.
\nMazda Parsi<\/p>\n

References:
\n[1]Hussain, Murtaza, An Iranian Activist Wrote Dozens of Articles for Right-Wing Outlets. But Is He a Real Person?<\/a>, The Intercept, June 9th, 2019.
\n[2] Limbert, John, The Trump Administration\u2019s Iran Fiasco<\/a>, The American Prospect
\nJune 5th, 2019.
\n[3] ibid
\n[4] Rezaian, Jason, Why does the U.S. need trolls to make its Iran case?<\/a>, The Washington Post, June 11th, 2019.
\n[5] Buyniski, Helen, Backing Pompeo’s \u2018Gulf of Tonkin\u2019 incident is a massive anti-Iran online propaganda campaign<\/a>, Russia Today, June 14th, 2019<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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