AP - The State Department has suspended funding for an online project aimed at fighting Iranian disinformation after it tweeted harsh criticism of individual human rights workers, academics and journalists, some of whom are U.S. citizens. The department said the work done by @IranDisinfo largely conformed to the guidelines it laid out for projects ...

Twitter is technically banned in Iran but #IranTalks and #GenevaTalks were trending in the hours after yesterdays historic nuclear deal. A reported2 million Iranianshave Facebook and Twitter pages, using VPNs to bypass the ban. Farsi speakers also used the hashtag #??? (Geneva) and #???? (Zarif, for Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif....

TEHRAN, Nov. 19 (MNA) Twitter users in two PersianGulf Arab states have been sentenced to prison, in the latest sign of extending crackdowns on activists, at social media. A Kuwaiti court jailed Musaab Shamsah for five years in prison on Monday for posting an insulting Twitter message in May, according to AP. In the other case, Waleed al-Shehhi was ...