{"id":215035,"date":"2026-06-04T09:49:18","date_gmt":"2026-06-04T09:49:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/2026\/06\/04\/social-media-operation-linked-to-iran-manipulated-public-through-fake-irish-and-scottish-profiles\/"},"modified":"2026-06-04T09:49:18","modified_gmt":"2026-06-04T09:49:18","slug":"social-media-operation-linked-to-iran-manipulated-public-through-fake-irish-and-scottish-profiles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/2026\/06\/04\/social-media-operation-linked-to-iran-manipulated-public-through-fake-irish-and-scottish-profiles\/","title":{"rendered":"Social media operation linked to Iran manipulated public through fake Irish and Scottish profiles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers say that social media accounts affiliated with Iran&#8217;s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps posed as Scottish and Irish nationals in order to cultivate their following, before switching their narrative to spread pro-Iranian discourse online.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.euronews.com\/my-europe\/2026\/06\/04\/social-media-operation-linked-to-iran-manipulated-public-through-fake-irish-and-scottish-p\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers say that social media accounts affiliated with Iran&#8217;s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps posed as Scottish and Irish nationals in order to cultivate their following, before switching their narrative to spread pro-Iranian discourse online. Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":215036,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-215035","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-europe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215035","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=215035"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215035\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/215036"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=215035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=215035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=215035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}