Want to undermine positions: Russian Federation, Iran and China are spreading propaganda against the US and Israel - NYT

According to journalists, the flow of network propaganda and misinformation reflects the geopolitical split in the world and can lead to a larger conflict. Iran, Russia and China use state media and major social networks to support Hamas and weaken Israel's positions, as well as to denounce the US. About it writes New-York Times.

According to the source, the Iranian proxy in Lebanon, Syria and Iraq, as well as the extremist groups "Al-Qaida" and "Islamic State", which were previously at odds with Hamas. "The flow of network propaganda and misinformation exceeds everything that has been observed earlier and reflects the geopolitical split in the world. The content of materials - emotionally saturated, politically engaged and often false - can lead to a larger conflict," the article reads.

The article reported that both branched bots of bots and official accounts of governments and state media of Iran, Russia and China, are enhanced by platforms. So, one day after the conflict starts about every fourth account on Facebook, Instagram, Tiktok and X, which posted information about the conflict, was fake. Within 24 hours after the explosion at the Arab Hospital "Al-Ahli" more than every third account, which posted information about the conflict on the site X, was fake.

Researchers of the company have found six coordinated campaigns of such a scale that, according to them, it makes it possible to speak about the involvement of states or large non -governmental entities. Israel monitors the activity of bots from Iran and other countries. Sources in the government note that by scale, this campaign exceeds all previous campaigns.

"Like military, Israel's social networks were surprised and reacted late," says Ben Decker, the head of the Memetica consulting company, specializing in threat analysis, and a former researcher of The New York Times. Russia and China, in recent years, are closer to each other, they seem to be intending to use a conflict to undermine the positions of the US and Israel. Similar moods are shared by Russian officials and state media.

Many Telegram Protegram accounts have moved from the war on the war in Ukraine to publications exclusively about Israel, including Arabic channel related to Wagner's group. "They are in a state of conflict, geostrategic rivalry with the United States. And they understand that when Israel, the US main ally in the Middle East, is involved in such a war, it weakens the United States," says Michael Doran, Director of the Center for Peace and Security. in the Middle East at the Hudson Institute.