An interesting investigative story was published today by Pirate Wires. The author uncovers how propaganda being sent out by dozens of designated terrorist groups including Hamas and Hezbollah have their messages pushed onto Reddit by a group that has worked behind the scenes to take over a number of subreddit forums, including some that are ostensibly not about politics at all.
The pipeline of propaganda starts with terror groups who publish material which gets picked up by a Telegram channel called the Resistance News Network.
Screenshots I obtained seem to indicate that RNN pulls content from a color-coded list of Telegram channels run by US-designated foreign terror organizations headquartered across the Middle East. Many of these channels aren’t available in the US due to restrictions on terror-related content, so RNN’s translation and re-posting of…