Jul 16, 2025 20:00:00

In the Israeli-Iranian conflict, false information was spread through social media and public broadcasting. The Israeli defense minister has previously posted a photo of Ayatollah Khamenei.

In June 2025,

Israel launched a preemptive attack on Iran , sparking a conflict that used cutting-edge weapons, such as Iran attacking Israel with hypersonic missiles and the United States attacking Iran's underground nuclear facilities with special bombs . Information warfare was also waged in this conflict, and it has become clear that both Israel and Iran were spreading false information through social media and public broadcasting.

Israel-Iran War: Iranian State-Affiliated False Claims Tracker: 26 Myths about the Conflict and Counting - NewsGuard
https://www.newsguardtech.com/special-reports/israel-iran-conflict/

Israel and Iran Usher In New Era of Psychological Warfare - The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/15/technology/israel-iran-psychological-warfare.html

How Iran and Israel control information - Index on Censorship
https://www.indexoncensorship.org/2025/07/how-iran-israel-control-information/

The image below is a photo posted by an Iranian user after the outbreak of the conflict, conveying false information that an attack had been carried out on the Israeli intelligence agency Mossad. The English spelling of Mossad is 'Mossad', but the image contains a sign that says 'Mosad', and it is believed to be a fake image generated by AI.

In addition, a video containing the following scene was spread on social media as if it was showing Israel under attack from Iran, but the truth of the video was that it was filmed in Lebanon in 2024. It is believed that this false information was spread by Iran in order to manipulate public opinion in Israel.

Iran's information operations were not limited to the spread of false information, but also involved hacking of surveillance cameras via the Internet. In fact, the Israeli government, wary of Iranian hacking, called on its citizens to turn off their surveillance cameras at home.

The Israeli government has called on citizens to turn off their home cameras, claiming that Iran is eavesdropping on Israeli security cameras to gather real-time information about attacks.

On the other hand, Israel has also been conducting information operations, spreading 'Persian messages attempting to undermine the credibility of the Iranian government' and 'Persian audio generated by AI' on social media. As the spread of false information by Israel became a problem, the Iranian government took the initiative to shut down the Internet, resulting in an inability to connect to the Internet from June 17 to 21, 2025. In addition, the Iranian parliament passed a law banning the use of the satellite Internet service 'Starlink.'

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