Tag Archives: facebook mek maryam rajavi terrorism
2021/04/18
Iran Interlink, April 18 2021:... There has been a lot of comment in Farsi from inside and outside Iran about Facebook blocking 300 MEK accounts. Outside Iran a London Kayhan article and inside Iran an article by Ebrahim Khodabandeh for Nejat point out that this 300 is just the tip of the iceberg as far as MEK accounts go. Some…
2021/04/15
Albanian Media, April 15 2021:... In terms of the technical infrastructure, Facebook said most accounts were run from Albania who shared the same network. This meant the same individual could run multiple accounts. Facebook said these were “some of the hallmarks of a so-called troll farm”. The report said that many of the accounts used pictures of deceased dissidents, Iranian…
2021/04/08
Ebrahim Khodabandeh, April 08 2021:... Removing 300 fake MEK accounts, after so many years, constitutes only one percent of the actual amount of this type of account operating from Albania. Last year, on April 22, 2020, The Intercept reported on a fake identity created by the MEK in Albania called “Heshmat Alavi” whose misinformation was quoted by Donald Trump as…
2021/04/08
Alice Taylor, Exit, April 08 2021:... The individuals involved posted MEK-related content on their, and others posts. They included links to international media sites and to sites affiliated with the MEK. Facebook found that they exclusively talked about Iran and “routinely praised the activity of MEK and its leaders and criticized the Iranian government.” Albanian MEK Troll Farm Exposed by…
2021/04/07
Associated Press, April 07 2021:... The accounts posted content critical of Iran’s government and supportive of Mujahedeen-e-Khalq, a dissident group known as MEK. In many cases, the Facebook and Instagram accounts used fake profile names and photos. In some cases, the fake accounts used photos of Iranian celebrities or deceased dissidents. A small number of the more recent Instagram accounts…
2021/01/17
Dr. Olsi Jazexhi and Gerjgji Thanasi, YouTube, January 17 2021:... The discussion of MEK's attack against freedom of media and democracy in Albania is compared with the censorship that Big Tech is doing against Rudy Giuliani and Trump in the United States. Olsi appeals to Rudy Giuliani to teach his good jihadi friend Maryam Rajavi to learn what democracy and…
2020/09/18
Olsi Jazexhi, Tirana, Albania, September 18 2020:... However, the appeal against jihad and terrorism is considered a psychological torture by the MEK command which does not want its soldier to abandon war and return back home. For this reason they attack Dr. Olsi Jazexhi and make him a collaborator with the Mullahs (Priests of Islam) who rule Iran. Olsi responds…
2020/09/01
D. Olsi Jazexhi, Tiranan, Albania, September 01 2020:... The ex-terrorist Mujaheden el-Halk organization has attacked Olsi Jazexhi and Gjergji Thanasi two Albanian journalists who investigate the illegal and terrorist activities of MEK from Albania. They level a number of accusations against Olsi. He responds to all these accusations and invites the Mojahedin military command and their supreme jihadi leader Maryam…
2020/08/22
Iran Interlink, August 22 2020:... Former MEK member Ehsan Bidi defied a plot by Maryam Rajavi to have him illegally deported. He is now enjoying a free life in Tirana with his friends and supporters. Meanwhile, Maryam Rajavi and her MEK lieutenants are in hiding. Rajavi has tried to deflect attention away from this by mobilizing the cohort of non-member,…
2020/02/08
Helen Buyniski, Russia Today, February 08 2020:... While this would seem to outlaw the tactics of groups like Sleeping Giants whose literal goal is to get those it unilaterally deems ‘fascists’ deplatformed by ginning up outrage mobs against them, Twitter is unlikely to defend the victims of such groups, if pastbehavior is any indication. Which begs the question: what constitutes ‘serious harm’, or…
2020/01/19
Russia Today, January 19 2020:... Twitter removed state-backed media outlet Al-Alam News’ account, as well as that of the popular Iran-backed Spanish-language media outlet HispanTV, only reinstating the latter after a massive public backlash. Dozens of individual Iranians who supported their government were also deplatformed on Twitter, while anti-government users – many linked to notorious exile terror group Mujahedin e-Khalq…
2019/08/23
Massoud Khodabandeh, Lobe Log, August 23 2019:... So, when Giuliani says we should be “comfortable” with this group, right-minded people the world over can honestly and unequivocally answer, “No, we are not comfortable ignoring this harsh reality just because the MEK amplifies an anti-Iran message to the world, and no, we don’t believe the MEK have any kind of future…