CyberWarFog: The Pro-Iran Playbook for Narrative Control

CyberWarFog:

The Pro-Iran Playbook for Narrative Control

This presentation will illustrate how pro-Iran narratives, including those from the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, are mobilized to dominate the narrative space. Our talk will draw on three aspects of influence operations complementing each other to spread Iran-aligned narratives and muddy the information space: previously active and new Iran-linked hacktivist personas, the IRGC state media ecosystem, and networks of Iran-aligned inauthentic social media accounts. We will feature examples from each area of influence from Iran’s recent war with Israel.