In the News: FilterLabs on Iranian Reactions to Attacks

If you have news notifications set up on your phone or went anywhere near the internet this weekend, you know that the U.S. bombed Iran in the early hours of Sunday morning local time, and that Trump announced a ceasefire between Iran and Israel last night.

As we mentioned in Friday’s newsletter, FilterLabs has been querying and analyzing online content from the Iranian information space, using our collection of geo-tagged Farsi-language sources, since Israel began its major bombardment of Iran on June 13.

We continued to ingest and analyze new data over the weekend and will continue to do so in the days ahead; you can access the live charts from our Iran analysis on our data dashboard here. We’ve added queries examining online sentiment around the United States and Russia as well, and we’ll be watching these to see how online narratives develop as the situation unfolds.

Media Roundup

We’ve also had the opportunity to discuss some of our observations—and their potential ramifications—in several forums. A roundup of a few recent appearances by our team:

• NBC Nightly News: FilterLabs CEO Jonathan Teubner was on NBC Nightly News on Friday to talk with NBC’s Keir Simmons about insights from our Iran findings.
  
  

• NBC News: Jonathan also discussed insights into early reactions to the Israeli attacks from the Iranian information environment with Keir Simmons for an earlier NBC story looking at Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei: “Israel's Netanyahu doesn't rule out targeting Iran's supreme leader and regime change” (Wednesday, June 18).
  
  
• Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS): FilterLabs Chief Research Officer Erol Yayboke, who is also a non-resident Senior Fellow at CSIS, discussed our Iran data last week with scholars Emily Harding, Director of the CSIS Intelligence, National Security, & Technology Program, and Ben Jensen, Director of the CSIS Futures Lab. You can watch their conversation, The Tehran Tipping Point: AI, Sentiment, and the Anatomy of Authoritarian Unraveling, here:

Explore the Live Data

FilterLabs specializes in gathering geo-located data from hard-to-reach places around the world, like Iran. Check out the live versions of the charts we're tracking in our Iran analysis to investigate the data for yourself and stay up to date as the situation evolves.

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