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Social media accounts sharing photos of picturesque Scottish landscapes, supporting independence from the United Kingdom, as well as criticising the British government, have, in fact, been deceiving the public. Researchers from Clemson University’s Media Forensics Hub in South Carolina found that a network of accounts sharing this kind of content was, in reality, affiliated with Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps — an elite paramilitary unit long accused of running foreign influence operations. The accounts spent months across X, Instagram and Bluesky cultivating followers and building up online credibility, before they started to spread pro-Iranian propaganda following the onset of the…

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