UK review may examine Iranian influence in Scotland — An independent UK review into foreign political interference could examine Iranian-linked activity targeting online debate around Scottish independence, following comments by Scotland Secretary Douglas Alexander.

by Crow-Me-A-River

22 comments

  1. >The review was announced after a former MEP was jailed for accepting Russian bribes and is expected to examine a wide range of foreign influence mechanisms, including covert digital operations. While Russia and China are widely expected to feature prominently, Alexander indicated that Iranian activity could also fall within scope.

    >“There’s been a lot of research in recent years indicating that there was Iranian activity in relation to the constitutional future of Scotland,” Alexander told reporters today. He referred specifically to changes in online behaviour following US strikes on Iran earlier this year, although he presumably meant the Israeli strikes, as those were the ones that caused the infrastructure blackout.

    >“When the Americans took their action that they did, we saw a significant reduction in the number of Iranian bots promoting Scottish independence on Scottish social media sites,” he said.

    Good to see. Needs to be done.

  2. We need an independent review into English interference in the Scottish independence debate.

  3. Agree with this but let’s look a little wider and consider influence by other nations than just Iran and whether there’s influence being exerted on topics other than just independence.

  4. UKDJ write a spammy blog post noticing a couple of twitter accounts go dark and now we’ve got disgraced British gov ministers trying to tell us that being pro self governance is something to do with Iran.

    Let us also not forget this this: https://www.theyworkforyou.com/regmem/?p=10661

    Douglas Alexander takes payment and gifts from the state of Israel to promote their interests in the UK and this is the stuff they’re prepared to actually declare. Remember also that he was involved in overt corruption and cash for access and honours as part of Blair’s government.

  5. Of all the countries that i’d think of who are putting money into the uk political system or paying for bot/troll accounts and networks to affect discourse, iran wouldn’t be top 5.

  6. Douglas Alexander is a spanner who cannot even work out who destroyed the supposed bots based in Iran. Then again, he is also a Unionist who simultaneously decries Chinese influence in London yet also welcomes with open arms further Chinese influence in London with the construction of a huge super embassy.

    What an embarrassment he is.

  7. Imagine the amount of Brasso Douglas Alexander must go through to keep his neck shiny……

  8. Okay, when is a more in depth Russian and Israeli influence report coming out for the whole of UK Politics.

  10. wonder if they’ll look into any potential US interference following the new strategic paper release

  11. Fuck the Iranian bots.
    Fuck the Russian bots.
    Fuck the Yank bots.
    Fuck the Israeli bots.

    I want all of these cunts out of British/Scottish politics. That is the only sane position.

  12. The BritnatZ need to be reminded that they are standing in a big glass house.

  13. When is the review into English interference and the British security services?

  14. From what I understand there are allegedly accounts online from “concerned Scots who support independence”.

    I can honestly say the only accounts I’ve ever seen with similar wording to that are ‘concerned Scots who are worried about [how bad] Scottish independence [will be]’.

    I think this might genuinely be a case of every accusation, a confession.

  15. Personally I’m a big fan of Iranian foreign policy, their domestic policies not so much. At the very least they don’t roll over like cowardly dogs to the war mongering pig fuckers that run the USA and Israel like we do. 

  16. While they’re at it maybe they could figure out who is running the astroturf campaign to convince low IQ Reform voters that “Islam is taking over the country.” Oh wait……..

  17. What about English political interference in Scotland?

  19. Do we have mad bots doing bits in Russia and Iran? Cant imagine we dont also play this game

  20. This sounds like a pretty decent idea.

    It’s obvious that overseas spamming and conspiracy lunacy has only increased – and is everywhere on social media. At this stage, I’m not sure we could stop it even if we wanted to.

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