A March 2023 Reddit post claimed a “new law” in Iran mandated black hijabs for female pharmacists, and that male pharmacists protested by also wearing black veils.
Protests in Iran in late September and early October 2022 led to the circulation of images purportedly showing Iranian women in the 1960s and 1970s.
An activist’s rebuke of two TV presenters’ Islamophobic questions gained newfound attention in August 2022.
A tweet about a “5,000-year-old prosthetic eye found near Zabol in Iran” on the skeleton of an “unnaturally tall” priestess was popular in August 2021.
The president dropped the “f-bomb” in a syndicated radio interview.
Escalating tensions between the United States and Iran in January 2020 sparked rumors that using antidepressants was a shield against being drafted to serve in the military.
The Republican lawmaker said people pointing out his disinformation were “dim-witted.”
One woman said a border agent asked her parents, “Did you immigrate, or are you a refugee?”
A short-lived disinformation account drew attention by falsely accusing the congresswoman of trying to incite violence.
As diplomatic tensions dramatically escalate, so too does the propaganda and corrosive disinformation.
