Israeli cybersecurity company Clearsky reported on Wednesday that it has uncovered "an online propaganda-and-disinformation operation, containing dozens of websites that impersonate western media outlets."
Clearsky said "We estimate that the main objective of the operation is to undermine the credibility of western media outlets in the eyes of Persian speakers, presenting them as driven by political agenda and acting against the Iranian regime." In the Google, Yahoo and Yandex search engines, the impostor British Broadcasting Corporation website is one of the top results in the first result-page. In Yooz and Parsijoo, Iranian search engines designed specifically for Persian speakers, only the impostor website appears in search results, and the legitimate website is not found at all.