Pro-Iran propaganda network gains traction with posts about Epstein
A pro-Iran propaganda network has found viral success by tapping into the conspiracy theory that Donald Trump attacked Iran to distract the public from the Epstein files. The posts are part of a maelstrom of Iran-related misinformation that has engulfed social media since Feb. 28, when strikes by the United States and Israel killed the country’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, and touched off a conflict that has spread across the Middle East.
The Washington Post via Yahoo News
A grainy video appears to show a line of blindfolded young girls parading past an underwear-clad Donald Trump. A girl’s anguished voice cries out in German. The video cuts to scenes of Trump and other famous figures talking with the late child sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
“This video is not fake,” said a post on X from an account called HDX News that was viewed more than 6.8 million times. “These pedophile perverts started a war so that this wouldn’t be talked about.”
The video is indeed fake, disinformation researchers say. And the account is part of a pro-Iran propaganda network that has found viral success by tapping into the conspiracy theory that Trump attacked Iran to distract the public from the Epstein files.
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