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Pro-Iran narratives target Azerbaijan’s Jewish war hero amid Israel-Baku disinformation row

The posts appeared amid renewed Iranian and pro-Iranian claims that Azerbaijan is being used as a platform for Israeli operations against Iran.

Jewish National Hero of Azerbaijan Albert Agarunov
US President Donald Trump speaks next to Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth during a cabinet meeting in the Cabinet Room at the White House, in Washington, DC, US, May 27, 2026. 

Trump admin. considering $300 billion investment fund if Iran upholds ceasefire - report

 Israel CENSORED, Khamenei in Russia, and Trump 'disappears'

Unpacking viral theories: Censorship, Mojtaba missing, and death hoaxes

LOOKING ON with their son, Barron,  as husband Donald Trump takes the  presidential oath in the US Capitol in  Washington, Jan. 20, 2025.

Trump claims Iran using AI as 'disinformation weapon,' coordinated with US media outlets


Iran mobilizes misinformation about school poisonings - analysis

Iranian pro-regime media are afraid that the regime will be blamed, so they have deployed a number of theories about what happened in order to distract attention from the events.

 People gather around an ambulance outside a girls school after reports of poisoning in Fardis, Alborz province, Iran in this undated video still image released March 1, 2023 and obtained by REUTERS

Israel artifact bearing name of King Darius the Great revealed to be fake

The forged "artifact" was discovered earlier this week after a foreign researcher left it behind at the excavation site last summer.

 The Darius inscription.

Can Israel stop ex-intel agents from breaking human rights, democratic elections? - analysis

How can the Jewish state prevent its former intelligence agents from using their skills in the private sector in violation of human rights and democratic elections?

 Israeli perspective on artificial intelligence (Illustrative).

True stories get more Reddit upvotes than fake news - Ohio study

Posts on the social media site Reddit with news articles fact-checked as true got more engagement, positive reactions than fake news, but the opposite was true on Twitter.

 Reddit app is seen on a smartphone in this illustration taken, July 13, 2021.

Aliens will take over all governments in May 2023 - TikTok 'time traveler'

TikToker Aery Yormany, a modern-day Nostradamus, has made bold and outlandish predictions about the future, and an alien invasion may be among the tamer ones.

 Alien UFOs are seen attacking a city on Earth in this illustrative image.

Letters to the Editor February 1, 2023: Home that I love

Readers of The Jerusalem Post have their say.

 Letters

Is Iran encouraging illegal acts in Israel over judicial reform? - opinion

Israeli disinformation watchdog claims it found a network of 80 fake foreign Twitter accounts encouraging people to commit illegal acts as part of judicial reform protests.

 A WOMAN in an Ashdod home ponders the damage from a Gazan rocket attack in May 2021. Iranian activists infiltrated WhatsApp and Telegram groups and inflamed tensions between Jews and Arabs during Operation Guardian of the Walls, says the writer.

Lessons on antisemitism, anti-Zionism, the Holocaust at Theresienstadt

EUROPEAN AFFAIRS: Officials and Jewish leaders gathered in Prague and Theresienstadt to discuss fake news, conspiracy theories and antisemitism.

 THE ENTRANCE TO Theresienstadt.

Israeli researcher finds method to track deviant Internet user groups

Ben-Gurion University cyber researcher pioneer method to track groups that spread malicious or fake news that could work on any network or platform

A man is silhouetted against a video screen with a Twitter and a Facebook logo

Why the Twitter files revelations are important - analysis

Recent revelations about how social media giant made decisions around the 2020 US election are only the tip of the iceberg.

  Twitter app logo is seen in this illustration taken, August 22, 2022