Opposition to Epic Fury on Twitter/X Being Led by Non-American Accounts

Opposition to Epic Fury on Twitter/X Being Led by Non-American Accounts

This probably happens with every major issue, news story, and election.

Jewish Onliner reports:

Non-American Accounts Are Spearheading X’s Anti–Epic Fury Torrent

In the first week of Operation Epic Fury, X was awash in negative commentary portraying the U.S.-Israeli campaign against Iran as illegitimate, politically toxic, or contrary to American interests. But much of that framing, a new review suggests, was not being driven by Americans at all. Jewish Onliner partnered with an independent firm specializing in large-scale social media data processing to examine 100 highly viral posts of +10,000 shares each. What the data revealed was a platform environment in which foreign-based accounts played an outsized role in shaping the volume, virality, and tone of what millions of users saw.

The firm’s seven-day social listening review, covering February 28 through March 7, tracked posts containing the keyword “Iran” and found an information environment of extraordinary scale: 98 million posts, 696.4 million interactions, and a staggering 1.5 trillion potential views. Within that volume, a clear pattern emerged at the top of the engagement hierarchy. Seven of the ten accounts generating the most interaction on the topic were based outside the United States, and every one of those foreign-based accounts was negative toward the operation.

A separate cut of the data — looking specifically at the ten most viral individual posts — told the same story. Seven of those ten posts were authored by foreign accounts, and all seven expressed opposition to Epic Fury.

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