Iran, Drones and Disinformation
No, Iran did not launch pickles at Israel
I was asked several questions about Iran, their latest drone strike and disinformation for the Belfast Telegraph and Kurtis Reid. This is a video of me answering these questions.
Note that the prompt I used on Adobe Firefly to create the thumbnail was: ”An Iranian Imam watching as a giant pickles launch into the sky.” Feel free to connect with me on Twitter (@ryanmcbeth) and post what generated for you.
Iran does have some of the most advance cucumber and pickle technology on earth. We must close the pickle gap!
The challenge with social media censoring disinformation is that we've seen them use that power to squelch inconvenient truths (Covid origins, Hunter laptop...). The work of Matt Taibbi and Michael Shellenberger also showed the U.S. government quite capable of basically blackmailing companies to comply ("nice section 230 you have there, it would be a shame if something happened to it"). IMO the best defense against disinformation is a skeptical person who is evaluating multiple sources of info.