Northern Virginia employees of California-based cybersecurity firm FireEye Inc. were responsible for tipping off Facebook to an Iranian disinformation campaign dating back to 2011. FireEye’s Reston and Alexandria offices conducted several weeks of research through which they discovered hundreds of social media accounts involved in spreading disinformation across the globe. Christopher Porter, chief intelligence strategist at FireEye, said the company was tracking something completely unrelated…
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FireEye exposed an Iranian social media disinformation campaign. Not from Silicon Valley, but from N. Virginia.
