Declassified Australia exposes and analyses a massive secret propaganda operation being run out of the US, that has been buried by Western media. by Peter Cronau Part 3 - Covert clusters exposed The newly-revealed covert clusters of the Information Operation (IO) received closer examination by the Stanford-Graphika report, who identified it as ‘ the most extensive case of covert pro-Western IO on social media ’ so far examined by open-source researchers. The covert pro-Western fake accounts identified by Twitter and Meta had ‘ created fake personas with GAN (Generative Adversarial Network-computer-generated) faces, posed as independent media outlets, leveraged memes and short-form videos, attempted to start hashtag campaigns, and launched online petitions ’. Through social media network mapping, the covert Twitter accounts were targeting Middle East audiences primarily in Iran (45%), Afghanistan, Iraq, and also Central Asia. Analysis also found ‘ smaller community clusters in the