Clemson Researchers Uncover Social Media Campaign to Spread Iranian Regime Propaganda

Clemson Researchers Uncover Social Media Campaign to Spread Iranian Regime Propaganda

Stuff like this probably happens all the time with no one really noticing.

Campus Reform reports:

Clemson University report uncovers social media campaign to spread IRGC propaganda

Researchers at Clemson University have exposed a web of social media accounts tied to the Islamic Republic of Iran that are fueling anti-Israel and anti-American propaganda.

According to their new report, published on Wednesday by the Clemson University Media Forensics Hub, the researchers identified a web of over 60 social media accounts that link directly to the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC).

“These accounts can be broadly collected into two groups, one set operated in Spanish pretending to be located in the Americas and one set operated in English pretending to be in the British Isles,” explains the report.

In the first group, accounts assert that they are located in Texas, California, Venezuela, and Chile. Accounts in the second group are said to be from Scotland, England, and Ireland.

Researchers write that “All these accounts systematically amplify politically divisive content and disinformation aligned with IRGC narratives, and they are designed to exploit regional fault lines to advance Iranian regime interests.”

The accounts have a presence across multiple social media platforms, including X, Instagram, and Bluesky. While they have a history of spreading divisive political messages, researchers noticed that the content shifted in late February 2026 to primarily regurgitating support for the Islamic Republic.

This coincides with the Feb. 28 joint U.S.-Israeli strikes on Iran’s dictatorial regime—leading to the death of Ayatollah Khamenei.

Since 1989 Khamenei’s regime has killed and terrorized American citizens, but violence from Iran’s fundamentalist government stretches back to 1979.

“There is a coordinated inauthentic social-media campaign targeting online discourse around the war between Israel, the United States, and Iran,” researchers claim in their report. “Subsequent research by BBC Verify, which examined X’s new location data, also suggested that those accounts were operated from Iran.”

Many of these IRGC-linked accounts purport to be Latina women, though their profile pictures have been exposed as images created using AI.

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