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Anonymous ID: 93f912 Sept. 29, 2024, 7:44 p.m. No.21681827   🗄️.is 🔗kun

fake news laying the groundwork for next round of fake election interference

https://www.barrons.com/news/iran-news-sites-hackers-target-trump-ahead-of-us-election-668fd7fc

 

Iran 'News' Sites, Hackers Target Trump Ahead Of US Election

By Anuj CHOPRA

September 27, 2024

 

Former president Donald Trump is running against Vice President Kamala Harris in November's US election battle

 

Iran is ramping up efforts to interfere with the US election with fake "news" websites and hackers targeting Donald Trump, American officials and researchers say, as the Republican nominee reported threats on his life from the Islamic republic.

 

Iran, long known for orchestrating clandestine influence operations against its adversaries, has emerged as a top disinformation threat facing the November 5 presidential vote.

 

The United States unveiled charges on Friday against three Iranians over a "wide-ranging hacking campaign," with Attorney General Merrick Garland saying they were attempting to undermine Trump's election effort.

 

A slew of fake sites masquerading as news outlets are meanwhile fabricating reports critical of Trump, disinformation researchers said, with much of the content apparently created using cheap and widely available generative AI tools.

 

The fake outlets reflect "the depth and coordinated planning of Iranian influence operations" to sway US voters, Dina Sadek, a fellow at the Atlantic Council's Digital Forensic Research Lab (DFRLab), told AFP.

 

The DFRLab released a report this week that warned that "government-led Iranian operations have increased substantially in the lead-up to the 2024 elections."

 

One such site spotlighted by the Microsoft Threat Analysis Center (MTAC) was NioThinker, which hails itself as the "go-to destination for insightful, progressive news."

 

In recent months, the site's focus has "increasingly shifted to the US elections," with its content including "sarcastic, long-winded articles insulting Trump," MTAC said.

 

The Foundation for Defense of Democracies (FDD) highlighted another Iranian-made site Afromajority which it said targets African American voters with content that is often critical of Trump and sympathetic to Democratic nominee Vice President Kamala Harris.

 

Among a network of 19 websites publishing Iranian propaganda, at least eight English-language portals are heavily focused on the US election, with many of them targeting key voting groups such as African Americans and Hispanic groups, the Washington-based FDD think tank said….