Sputnik - Facebook's decision to "warn" users about state-controlled media is an outdated propaganda trick, say international observers, asking whether US news outlets are independent and from whom. Facebook has announced that it will start labelling Russia Today, Sputnik, Iran's Press TV, China's Xinhua News and other government-funded news outlets ...

FNA - Social networking websites Facebook and Instagram both disabled the accounts of renowned Tehran University Professor and analyst Seyed Mohammad Marandi on Saturday in yet another low for the freedom of expression in the US that has already shut down social media pages of tens of Iranian analysts and officials. My accounts on Facebook and Instagram ...

MNA Facebook has deleted the page which was publishing remarks of the Islamic Revolution Leader Ayatollah Khamenei in Arabic. The page had some 100,000 followers and had been earlier restricted by the American company. This is not the first time that pages related to the Islamic Revolution Leader are being restricted in social media as Instagram,...

IRNA - A Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman has dismissed the recent accusations by the Facebook CEO accusing Iran and Russia of trying to interfere in the upcoming US election as baseless. Maria Zakharova responded to Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg on Tuesday and wrote that Zuckerberg believes Russia, China, and Iran will intervene in the 2020 US ...

Sputnik - Twitter and Facebook announced Tuesday that, based on a report by cybersecurity firm and CIA startup FireEye, the two social media giants had together disabled thousands of inauthentic accounts originating in Iran. However, Twitter admitted it never saw the report, and FireEyes statement says they had low confidence in their own findings....

BBC - Facebook and Twitter say they have suspended or removed accounts linked to Iran and Russia over "inauthentic" or "manipulating" behaviour. More than 650 Facebook pages and groups were said to have been identified as "misleading", according to founder and chief executive Mark Zuckerberg. Meanwhile Twitter said it suspended 284 accounts with ...

Alwaght - Recently, the social networking sites Facebook and Twitter suspended the accounts of the Lebanese movement Hezbollah, a measure drew welcome of the Israeli media. The Hebrew language Yedioth Ahronoth has reported that the suspension came after a warning against the continuation of activity of these accounts issued by the Israeli Public ...

American Herald Tribune- Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu spoke honestly, perhaps for the first time, about what has been driving his recent attacks on Israeli journalists during a conference for members of the foreign press in Jerusalem Tuesday evening. During the Q&A session, one reporterasked Netanyahu about whether confrontations with local ...

Alwaght- Following intensive efforts of the Israeli propaganda media and security officials to get the social networks to eliminate the anti-Israeli posts, Facebook officials finally announced that the social networking platform from now on will delete anti-Tel Aviv material. The London-based Rai al-Yaoum daily reported that Tel Aviv has forced ...

The Supreme Leaders letter to Western youth which had been posted on Russian Radios Facebook page was removed from Facebook. Prior to its omission, the letter had received so many likes on Facebook. Facebook removed the letter and its related posts. In a similar move, Facebook removed a report on the sinking by the Yemeni army of a Saudi warship ...

In Iran, Twitter, YouTube and Facebook are among many sites blocked by the authorities, spurring a generation of young entrepreneurs to invent their own versions. Now, with the prospect of sanctions easing and the world lining up to invest in the tech sector, is all that about to change? Tehran may be thousands of miles away from Silicon Valley,...

[caption id="attachment_149033" align="alignright" width="206"] Irans Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) says it is intensifying its monitoring of online crimes on social networks, specifically Facebook. (File photo)[/caption] Irans Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) says it is intensifying its monitoring of online crimes on social ...

TEHRAN (Tasnim) The Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) said it has identified and arrested members of a cyber-group involved in propagating obscene contents on the Internet via Facebook. An IRGC center combating organized cyber crimes said in a statement on Saturday that it has managed to arrest the major elements behind those criminal ...

IFP has taken a look at the front pages of newspapers on Sunday and picked headlines from 16 of them. IFP has simply translated the headlines and does not vouch for their accuracy. The warning of the Supreme Leader during an inspection tour of a nanotechnology exhibition to officials to keep politics out of science and research and the presidents ...

Head of Revolutionary Guards US-Led Coalition in Iraq is Just a Show Iran and the 5+1 Powers resume nuclear talks in New York on Wednesday, amid growing questions over whether they can reach a comprehensive agreement by a November 24 deadline. Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarifwill meet the European Unions Catherine Ashton, the lead representative ...

TEHRAN - A revolutionary court in Iran has jailed eight young people for a total of 127 years for anti-regime posts on Facebook, media reported on Monday. The eight, whose names were not given, were jailed for "acting against national security, anti-regime propaganda and insulting religious values and Iranian leaders," the reports said, without elaborating....

An Iranian court has sentenced eight people to jail terms ranging from seven to 20 years for crimes including anti-regime propaganda posted on Facebook, an opposition website has said. Kaleme, which did not cite a source for its report, said the sentences were delivered last week giving the eight Facebook users a combined 123 years in jail. They ...

(Reuters) - In an unprecedented, three-year cyber espionage campaign, Iranian hackers created false social networking accounts and a fake news website to spy on military and political leaders in the United States,Israeland other countries, a cyber intelligence firm said on Thursday. ISight Partners, which uncovered the operation, said the hackers' ...

The Supreme Leadercontinued his tactic of tough talk, while supporting Irans nuclear talks with the 5+1 Powers, on Tuesday. Speaking to ambassadors of Islamic countries in Tehran, Ayatollah Khamenei said those nations must be watchful of the plots hatched by enemies to wreak havoc on them. The Supreme Leaderdeclared the vital importance of unityamong ...

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) -- A judge in southern Iran has ordered Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg to appear in court to answer complaints by individuals who say Facebook-owned applications Instagram and Whatsapp violate their privacy, semiofficial news agency ISNA reported Tuesday. It quoted an official with the paramilitary Basij force, as saying ...