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Lots of reasons to be skeptical about this article - I can’t find any of the accounts - geolocation feature is hard to crack so they must have been identified
by simianwords 10mo ago
Lots of reasons to be skeptical about this article
- I can’t find any of the accounts
- geolocation feature is hard to crack so they must have been identified as Iranian when this feature was released
- these don’t seem to be high profile accounts
- tencentshill 10mo agoGood job being skeptical, it's a good first instinct to have with any media. However, reading the actual article is a good choice as well. - They link to several of the accounts (now suspended) in the article. - The geolocation was easily spoofed with a VPN, as stated in the article. - They never claim these account have any significant standing, only that they have "thousands of followers", likely in aggregate. The news here is that they were previously known to be Iranian-linked. This blackout is further evidence, because they all stopped posting when Iran went offline.