{"id":9646,"date":"2026-06-04T17:47:16","date_gmt":"2026-06-04T16:47:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/?p=9646"},"modified":"2026-06-10T12:38:46","modified_gmt":"2026-06-10T11:38:46","slug":"irgc-fake-scottish-and-irish-profiles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/2026\/06\/04\/irgc-fake-scottish-and-irish-profiles\/","title":{"rendered":"IRGC fake Scottish and Irish Profiles"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-bluesky-social wp-block-embed-bluesky-social\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"bluesky-embed\" data-bluesky-uri=\"at:\/\/did:plc:sgdlvu6ir5hlaxdl3uyd5jx5\/app.bsky.feed.post\/3mni2l2tmkk2w\" data-bluesky-cid=\"bafyreih3zo3cuewzr3ikjekhrmsp2cakdpju5ytxexqn6iiysxqerhcf5e\"><p lang=\"en\">I&#39;m aware of this from previous reports: &#34;Researchers say that social media accounts affiliated with Iran&#39;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.&#34;<\/p>&mdash; <a href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/did:plc:sgdlvu6ir5hlaxdl3uyd5jx5?ref_src=embed\">Gary R. Bunt (@garyrbunt.bsky.social)<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/did:plc:sgdlvu6ir5hlaxdl3uyd5jx5\/post\/3mni2l2tmkk2w?ref_src=embed\">2026-06-04T16:35:32.969Z<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/embed.bsky.app\/static\/embed.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For more details on this issue, see <a href=\"https:\/\/open.clemson.edu\/mfh_reports\/10\">Murray, Ella and Linvill, Darren, &#8220;From Texas to Tehran: A Multilingual, IRGC-affiliated Influence Operation on X, Instagram, and Bluesky&#8221; (2026).\u00a0<em>Media Forensics Hub Reports<\/em>. 10.<\/a><br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For more details on this issue, see Murray, Ella and Linvill, Darren, &#8220;From Texas to Tehran: A Multilingual, IRGC-affiliated Influence Operation on X, Instagram, and Bluesky&#8221; (2026).\u00a0Media Forensics Hub Reports. 10.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[486,286,536,442,608],"tags":[487,201,1125,1124,1126,475],"class_list":["post-9646","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-disinformation","category-iran","category-iran-internet","category-iranian-social-media","category-ireland-muslims","tag-disinformation","tag-iran","tag-ireland","tag-irgc","tag-northern-ireland","tag-scotland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9646","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9646"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9646\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9647,"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9646\/revisions\/9647"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}