Riyadh 0
5 August 2020

Google’s Threat Analysis Group reported that it had “terminated sixteen YouTube channels, one advertising account and one AdSense account as part of our ongoing investigation into coordinated influence operations linked to Iran”. “The campaign was linked to the Iranian state-sponsored International Union of Virtual Media (IUVM) network, and posted content in Arabic related to the U.S. response to COVID-19 and content about Saudi-American relations”, the report added.

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