holy crap this is awesome 🤯

Luna has been deployed on the dashboard

I've built a free open-source intelligence dashboard tracking every coordinated inauthentic behaviour (CIB) operation Meta has disclosed since 2018. 214 operations. 53 origin countries. $22.7M in ad spend. 71 reports analysed. Access it here! marcowenjones.substack.com/p/i-created-... #disinfo

@marcowenjones.bsky.social Meta, guerrilla war of infrastructure, fake networks, ads (manufactured consent) mimicing grassroots movements. YouTube, war of algorithmic amplification/culture, recommendation engine amplifying rage to millions. Platforms used in concert ops+ammunition=damage.

I've built a free open-source intelligence dashboard tracking every coordinated inauthentic behaviour (CIB) operation Meta has disclosed since 2018. 214 operations. 53 origin countries. $22.7M in ad spend. 71 reports analysed. Access it here! marcowenjones.substack.com/p/i-created-... #disinfo

It's quite ironic that the Trump admin defunded disinformation research, and now they want state-propaganda efforts by their actual government entities. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Check out my interview on the the Tea with @theteamyriamf.bsky.social . We talk disinformation and propaganda, from the #IranWar to the bizarre information war on Sadiq Khan - and much more www.youtube.com/watch?v=_CQt...

No apology for the school children you didn't hesitate to murder? Epic fail. #IranWar

Shouldn't universities the world over be condemning US/Israeli attacks on a university in Iran, or will they generally be silent like they were on Gaza? #IranWar #AcademicChatter

I was interviewed for the latest episode of the Listening Post. I discuss the US and Iran's use of memetic warfare, in particular the callous aesthetic of US communication strategy, which undermines respect for human life by trivialising the severity of violence. www.youtube.com/watch?v=igxh...

"You can't have private ownership of the public sphere": Manufacturing War and Islamophobia: My interview with Dr. Myriam Francois on The Tea - on how narratives, platforms, and disinformation networks shape conflict; from Iran to the global far right marcowenjones.substack.com/p/you-cant-h...

"Iran has a nuclear weapon and is going to use it at any minute is one of these narratives - in order to believe that, you have to believe that Iran is an irrational psychotic actor. Why would you believe that-because you've been fed a diet of Orientalism for decades" www.youtube.com/watch?v=_CQt...

"Iran has a nuclear weapon and is going to use it at any minute is one of these narratives - in order to believe that, you have to believe that Iran is an irrational psychotic actor. Why would you believe that-because you've been fed a diet of Orientalism for decades" www.youtube.com/watch?v=_CQt...

Check out my interview on the the Tea with @theteamyriamf.bsky.social . We talk disinformation and propaganda, from the #IranWar to the bizarre information war on Sadiq Khan - and much more www.youtube.com/watch?v=_CQt...

Check out my interview with Myriam François, where we discuss all things disinformation. Full interview is going out today. www.instagram.com/reel/DWWtpDs...

New York Times, like lots of liberal media, even in opposition to war, always talk about war on Iran being something that should actually be a "reasonable debate". This is such imperial discourse. Imagine other country's ndiscussing whether war on the US is reasonable

Does Netanyahu realise Israel is also an axis of evil, or perhaps a fulcrum, since axis is already taken? www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

Kluge Analyse zur Desinformation von @marcowenjones.bsky.social

"Trump and Netanyahu's South Pars Contradiction Is Disinformation - So Let's Call It That. We're good at spotting fake videos. We're worse at spotting lies from power" open.substack.com/pub/marcowen...

Those who support Trump and Netanyahu's war on Iran are hypocritical when they only critique Iran for its attacks on civilian infrastructure. The war was illegal, the repeated attacks on civilian objects are illegal, now Trump is threatening to bomb power plants. That's also illegal.

Trump is a moron. He thought bombing a gas field would open Hormuz, it did not, but resulted in an attack on Qatar damaging global gas supplies. Now he's threatening to bomb power plants in Iran, who have replied in kind. Once again Trump exporting costs to Gulf allies.

"War is God's way of teaching Americans geography" Jon Stewart ☠️ www.instagram.com/reel/DV-EZxB...

If Israel justified their attack on Iran based on their perception that an attack from Iran was imminent then an Iranian attack on Israel before the Israeli attack would have been justified by the same logic based on the correct assumption that an Israeli attack was imminent

> Don’t consult your allies about a war that will directly affect them. >Then berate them for not helping in the war they were never consulted on. >Then argue they must help because Hormuz closure would affect them. >Ask NATO for help months after floating invasion of Greenland

Important piece. "In the Middle East, the occupation is the original sin. And those who banked on this US-backed ‘stability’ now find it giving way beneath them" www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

“Influencers who come to Dubai feel that they’ve been given an opportunity,” said Jones. “You have a distorted sample of loyalists who are going to praise the place because they like it there.” In this ecosystem, saying nothing at all can be risky... observer.co.uk/news/interna...

I'm glad the UN security council condemned US and Israeli strikes on civilian infrastructure and civilians, in addition to condemning Iran's attacks on the same. Oh wait, they just condemned Iran. My bad

"We are not required to be at the mercy of the theological fanatic regime that runs Iran." - John Bolton Meanwhile

Does anyone with familiar with Google Ads Library know why an advertiser (and their ads) would disappear?

Looking forward to US ensuring that Iran never has a nuclear program. Until next month when Iran will once again be days away from a nuclear weapon. #HegsethSpeech #IranWar

7) I killed him before he could kill me.

The different justifications US has given for war so far 1) Israel started it, US joined 2) US forced Israel's hand 3) It's about nuclear weapons 4) It's about ballistic missiles 5) It's about regime change 6) It's about pre-emptive strikes #IranWar #disinformation

1/2 To break it down: 1) WaPo claimed Saudi had lobbied Trump to bomb Iran 2) Bloomberg claimed UAE/Qatar were running out of interceptors 3) Tucker Carlson claimed KSA & Qatar arrested Mossad agents planning a bomb 4) Channel 12 claimed Qatar had bombed targets inIran #IranWar

Good rule of thumb, always distrust information if it comes from someone without any obvious background in news and current affairs, is anonymous, and whose bio includes Crypto, AI, and an emoji of any description. #IranWar

To everyone who has checked in on me, thank you. I am fine and safe, and lucky in many ways. I am stuck in Amsterdam (could be worse). I was visiting UvA for a great workshop on influence operations. I want nothing more than to get back to my cats and home in Qatar.

Not one word of condemnation from Keir Starmer about the US and Israel starting an illegal war

Tally so far in the war that Trump & Netanyahu started: Hundreds of Iranians dead (incl. schoolgirls), 3 US Marines KIA, $250M in downed American jets, m/billions in damage to Gulf allies, several killed in the Gulf and Israel. Other than that it's going really well.

"Pre-emptive strikes" are ultimate white privilege

Gonna be lots of reductive Bahrain = Sunni vs Shia takes in the wake of protests in some places in the country. Bahrain’s Shia community is not a monolith, although many would understandably feel outrage at the assassination of Khameini (I myself feel non-pious outrage at the egregious war

Guardian at pains to point out there was an IRGC base in the same city as the girl's school where over 100 were killed by Israel and US. Never saw this kind of reporting when it came to Hamas missile strikes

Iran agreed to talks? You mean the ones they were already doing when you and Israel attacked?

I geolocated the mosque in this viral video from a notoriously inaccurate 'OSINT' account. It is not in #Qatar. It is the Mosque on the Eastern side of Hoora cemetry in #Bahrain 26.23092872900335, 50.585565184198046

Iran is an awful regime, but so are those in Israel and the United States in terms of harm caused. So should that also be mentioned in reporting of the war?

In a career first, I am proud to have received credit on the latest episode of Last Week Tonight with John Oliver. I was consulted regarding Elon Musk and X's involvement in the Southport disinformation and the subsequent riots. You can watch the episode here: youtu.be/p7ZG_xWYLzI?...

Trying UpScrolled now. You can catch me at. share.upscrolled.com/en/user/fb0b...

Excited for this! Remember to tune in tonight!

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"Its no longer about the truth.. it becomes about propaganda.. its trying to curate reality, that looks realistic, that doesn't necessarily reflect reality, but reflects what people in power want you to see" @marcowenjones.bsky.social on the US administration using AI images

New substack: The Times publishes clarification on Amjad Taha’s article about UK campuses “surrendering to radical Islamists” - I contacted three universities to find if they cancelled events on safety grounds... marcowenjones.substack.com/p/the-times-...

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