All my friends are sharing posts by influencers claiming what’s in the title even though a quick google search verifies that it is false. I never realised just how dangerous social media could be until now.
Googling the title at the time of posting this you will see a few mainstream media articles on Iran sentencing a single protestor to death for setting a government building on fire, now I don’t support the death penalty but that is a far cry from the claim in the title. A few fact checking websites are saying that the claim is false and that only one person has been sentenced to death. But below that are an ocean of niche “news” websites that appear to make their money from pure outrage claiming that Iran is going to go through with this.
My prediction is that people will flood to these “news” websites after seeing the social media posts, boosting their traffic and pushing them to the front page of google. After this more credible sources will cite the propaganda websites, and in a week’s time this will be a widely accepted fact. When eventually nothing actually happens everyone will have forgotten about it completely, the only difference will be new sanctions against Iran and more money to the US military.
I doubt it, invasion was ruled out in 2020 already and situation did not improved for USA since, it just seems like standard colour revolution consent being manufactured.
So destabilisation then?
Maybe? Depending on how much traction this can get inside Iran.
I meant more the traditional murican tactics where they are assembling their usual same map coalition for colonising countries, for them the claims don’t have to be anything close to reality, they just need to make their libs eat it (not hard).
True, true. I was thinking more in terms of using supposedly independent actors - various Islamist groups, nationalists, etc
i guess so :(