Originally published by Glenn Beck.
Our analysis of over 1,000 viral English-language X posts about Iran that were published from February 28 to March 13 has determined that non-U.S. accounts—and whichever groups or governments operate them — are dominating X’s discourse and polluting it with inflammatory and demoralizing propaganda. Over half (559) of the viral posts written in English actually originate from overseas. Of the top 100 posts, 40 originated from outside the U.S.
To qualify, a post had to mention the word “Iran” and have at least 2,500 shares.
A randomly selected sample of 150 of the 1,000 X posts found that 108 (72%) of the viral X posts were negative. Only 40 (27%) were positive. Two were neutral.
The non-U.S. subset within that random selection of 150 viral posts was overwhelmingly negative. Only 10% of the non-U.S. viral posts were positive . About 64% was negative, and the rest was neutral. Those 559 English-language posts of foreign origin received over 650 million views and had almost 22 million total interactions , such as reposts, likes, and replies.
In many cases, these U.S.-based users parroted messaging from the Iranian government and its sympathizers. Their posts often quote hostile non-U.S. users and reference propagandistic foreign content. Westerners’ discourse about the conflict with Iran is also being shaped by a relatively new and oft- overlooked factor: X began automatically translating posts only about nine months ago. English-speaking users are now seeing a significant amount of non-English content that has been translated by Grok on their timelines.
Therefore, Americans and English-speaking X users are being bombarded with posts biased against the U.S. and in favor of the Iranian regime from three directions:
U.S.-based English-language viral posts, 72% of which are negative and often include messaging from anti-Western foreign accounts.
Non-U.S.-based English-language viral posts that misleadingly appear to come from within the U.S., only 10% of which are positive and 64% of which are negative.
Non-U.S.-based, non-English posts that are automatically translated by X and are highly likely to be negative.
Our review indicates that there are two main overarching narratives that emerge from the negative posts. Firstly, that a Zionist conspiracy deceived, bribed, or forced President Trump to launch Operation Epic Fury.
And secondly, that the military campaign is a deceitful “Wag the Dog” distraction to divert attention from the discovery of evidence that allegedly incriminates Trump in the Jeffrey Epstein scandal and to reverse his decreasing approval ratings.
Our data analysis concluded that the 10 accounts most responsible for the viral tweets generated 32% of all the views in this sample of 1,000 viral posts. The top 20 generated 43% of the views. The top 10 are as follows:
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