Thread by @HichkasOfficial

Here, @voxdotcom itself has been used as a tool in the information war against the Iranian people fighting for freedom.

The outlet is calling Iranians who cross many obstacles to reach Twitter in order to voice their opinions about the regime, bots and trolls,/

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https://twitter.com/voxdotcom/status/1602272206951686145

distorting the protests. When the ones distorting the #IranRevolution are @voxdotcom and @mideastXmidwest themselves.

This article is riddled with disinformation and misleading information. I couldn't talk about all of them, but to name a few:/

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Disrespectfully @voxdotcom calls Iranians on Twitter bots/trolls & to prove it, compares #MahsaAmini's Farsi hashtag (#مهسا_امینی) to #BlackLivesMatter & #Ukraine. Saying it is impossible to organically have more tweets with #MahsaAmini than #BlackLivesMatter & #Ukraine./

However, the article doesn't consider that this is a revolution, & although @Twitter has not assigned #MahsaAmini (#مهسا_امینی) a hashflag, it is naturally much bigger than the #BlackLivesMatter movement. It also doesn't consider the difference between the Iranian & Ukrainian/

population, which is approximately double the number. Nor does the article talk about the fact that #MahsaAmini (#مهسا_امینی) is no longer only a name, but also the code of our revolution. Every single tweet that goes out and has anything to do with the revolution or the regime/

& the Iranian people, is accompanied with the hashtag.

Let's not forget that the west has rightly lended its support to the Ukranians in every way possible, from crippling sanctions to military support, however, in terms of the its support of the #IranRevolution/

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we're still begging them not to continue the nuclear weapons program negotiations with the regime (the one you're sources in this article are advocating for), let alone demanding other forms of support. So it is again natural for the Iranians to be more outspoken/

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about their revolution and the revolution's hashtag in comparison to #Ukraine, as they yet don't have any support which they desperately need in the fight for freedom, in which they're being killed/kidnapped/tortured in the tens of thousands./

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The article states that "Iran holds elections". First of all it's the Islamic Republic, not Iran. Don't confuse the two. Secondly, the Islamic Republic has never held elections in the duration of its reign. Every so-called election has been a sham to mislead/

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the population and the international community. A totalitarian regime, disguising itself as a democracy. In all the sham elections the politicians are selected and hand picked, and the hardliner/reformist duality has been nothing but a lie./

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Not to mention that the article states that previously even "liberal presidents" have been elected, which is nothing but a distasteful & disrespectful joke. The Islamic Republic is in unison a terrorist regime which the Iranians want to overthrow, end of discussion./

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The article states that "the protests in Iran are hard to understand" & refers to some incidents where the news has been inaccurate. Among these examples it refers to fake news about the Hijab Police being abolished. Well, one of the sources of this fake news/

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has been @farnazfassihi from @nytimes, who the article also praises, and who's track record shows she has intentionally worked on the fake news of the abolishment of the Hijab Police to side track the #IranRevolution and the international community's attention./

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When what the Iranians are demanding is the abolishment of the regime itself.

In another example, the article refers to the misinfo about 15000 prisoners being executed by the Islamic Republic. Well, this sort of misinformation is not specific to #IranRevolution/

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look around and you'll find all sorts of it even in countries with free press. So stop acting as if this is unique. Not to mention that prisoners ARE in danger, if not all in danger of execution, most of them are in danger of torture, as there have been/

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a number of prosters only in the past few days who've been murdered under torture, and have been murdered by the regime by execution, but the article seems to be more interested about generating fake news about fake news generation./

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The article states that Iranian journalists/activists outside Iran are under attack by the Iranian diaspora, and gives an example of @NegarMortazavi's panel discussion being cancelled due to an anonymous bomb threat. Firstly, these so called "attacks" are mostly/

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Secondly, in the University of Chicago's statement about cancelling the panel there has not been any mention about an "anonymous bomb threat". This is lie by Negar Mortazavi to play the victim and paint a violent picture of her critiques & the Iranians opposing her/

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and the regime she holds so dearly and defends. Let's not forget that if we're talking about fake news, in one of her fake news instances she was spreading the Islamic Republic's propaganda story about the #PS752 flight which was shot down by the regime./

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& let's not kid ourselves. It is normal for some people to curse at known individuals on the internet. It is what it is. I've been subject to these treatments for years, but have never played victim. I suggest these so-called "human rights activists and journalists"/

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stop being mouthpieces of the regime & stop playing victim when confronted with genuine criticism.

It's a shame to see @voxdotcom discredit itself. I could go on about every single piece of disinfo in this article but that would have been a much much longer thread.

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