Thread by @talk2trav

I uncovered a coordinated foreign Information Operation here on X. This is a 16 page thread that gets juicier the further you read. 🧵 Buckle up as we learn how Iran, Russia, China and Turkey are subverting the West on social media. CC: @nikitabier THREAD 🧵

Red flags:
Location: “West Asia”
Date Joined: Sep25, very recent
Username Changes: 2 already
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This “West Asia” account only follows one account, the official China MFA... CC: @nikitabier

“Global Insight Journal” shares content from Russia’s RT, Iran’s PressTV and Turkish media dozens of times each day. CC: @nikitabier

But who was the first account to post this intentionally misquoted video? Meltem TV, located in Turkey. But only 12k views... so it needed amplification. CC: @nikitabier

Luckily not only did “Global Insight Journal” amplify it to 3.3 milion views but Alexander Dugin, yeah that guy, amplified it to another 1.2 million views. CC: @nikitabier

Alexander Dugin is a Russian propagandist known as “Putin’s Brain”. CC: @nikitabier

Funnily while Dugin participates in Russian-Turkish-Chinese-Iranian disinformation ops, he explicity says that those countries are not enemies of the US. You cannot make this up. CC: @nikitabier

Dugin cannot stop talking about Sunni muslims the past 3 weeks...Hm... CC: @nikitabier

Ahhhh there it is. Calling for an Islamic Caliphate in the Middle East and aligning with Islam against the West and “Zionism”. Right. On. Cue. CC: @nikitabier

And now “Putin’s Brain” is celebrating Iran’s long range missile attacks against the US-UK and suggests maybe Russia will join the war... CC: @nikitabier

Global Insight Journal: Analysis
Sep25 - Account Created
Oct25 - Username Changed
Feb26 - Account Verified
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Global Insight Journal: Analysis
Feb28 - Iran war begins
Mar3-5 - Operations plummet
Mar7-14 - Operations recover
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Why would InfoOps plummet on March 2? Well... The Islamic Republic Iran Broadcasting (IRIB) [state propaganda HQ] was destroyed that night.
And that’s our smoking gun. CC: @nikitabier

During that low of operations on Mar6, Global Insight Journal posted two times within 9 minutes of each other reporting that both Russia and China are aiding Iran in the war. CC: @nikitabier

Phase 1: Turkish Seeding
Phase 2: Iran Boosting
Phase 3: Russian Boosting
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I am a former intelligence and media analyst at the NSA, in the US Air Force, at US CENTCOM and I teach open source intelligence to DHS. My work focuses on macro intelligence (narratives, disinformation campaigns, trends, public sentiment, networks etc.) as well as micro intelligence (persons of interest, deanonymizing & identifying users, digital footprint exposure etc.). If you'd like to contact me please reach out here: [e-mail]