Social media

Time to Stop the Music: How Terrorists Exploit Music Streaming Platforms

How America can fight back against enemy propaganda

As Iran’s viral Lego videos, which spread anti-Western narratives through Lego-style animations and rap tracks, reach global audiences, the State Department’s call for diplomats to fight against...

Russia Recruits Young Migrant Women from Latin America to Build Iranian Drones

A Year of Meming Dangerously: Iranian Influence Operations Targeting Israel Since October 7

...

Iranian Hacker Group Threatens to Release Trove of Emails from Top Aides to Trump

Hackers Threaten Email Leaks From Trump Aides: Iranian hackers are threatening to leak private emails obtained from top aides to President Donald Trump, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure...

FDD Connects Anti-Israel Network on Social Media to Iranian Website, Pro-Regime Actor

The “Iran Hayom” network posts anti-Israel propaganda, in Hebrew and English, across X, Instagram, TikTok, Telegram, and YouTube. Its name is a play on the widely read Israeli newspaper Israel Hayom,...

Iran-Based Psychological Operation Sets Saudi Aramco in Its Crosshairs

An Iran-based psychological operation that previously tried to demoralize Israelis via social media is now targeting Saudi Arabia’s state-owned oil company, Aramco, by calling for real-world attacks....

FDD Uncovers Large Iranian Network Impersonating Israelis on Social Media

An Iranian social media operation is instructing its audience how to use AI and create fake accounts on X where they pose as Israelis and post demoralizing messages in Hebrew...

FDD Uncovers Likely Chinese Intelligence Operation Targeting Recently Laid-Off U.S. Government Employees

...

Turkey Cracks Down on Demonstrators Protesting Arrest of Istanbul Mayor

Arrests of Demonstrators: Turkish authorities arrested more than 100 protesters after thousands of Turkish citizens demonstrated throughout March 19 and March 20 against the politically...

Prominent Critic of Islam and Iran Murdered at Home in Sweden

Shot While Streaming on Social Media: A prominent free speech activist and critic of Islam known for staging public burnings of the Islamic holy book, the Quran, was murdered inside...

How to Prevent Classified U.S. Intelligence from Ending up on Social Media

Once again, highly classified U.S. intelligence reports are circulating on social media. Last month, Telegram’s pro-Iran propaganda channel Middle East Spectator published two classified...

Examining the Flow of U.S. Money into China’s Military Might

Social Media: An Important Tool Used By Palestinian Militant Groups

Between Gaza and the West Bank, there are approximately twenty active Palestinian militant organizations. Each group – to varying degrees – utilizes social media to spread its ideology, encourage attacks...

‘China’s Media Warfare seeks global totalitarian thought control’

India and other countries would do well to study how China employs Media Warfare to try to undermine Taiwan’s democratic institutions, fracture national unity, demoralize the public and military, and create social instability in pursuit of its goal of annexing this sovereign country.

Skinheads, Saints, and (National) Socialists

An Overview of the Transnational White Supremacist Extremist Movement

Social Media Is an Intel Gold Mine. Why Aren’t Governments Using It?

“To platform or to deplatform” is the wrong debate.

Midterm Assessment: Sunni Jihadism

Evolving Menace

Iran’s Use of Cyber-Enabled Economic Warfare