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Ted Cruz: “28.1% of all of the comments targeting my post were fake…”

Featuring: Ted Cruz, Republican | U.S. Senate, Texas

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Ted Cruz's Plan to Bring Down Iran's Regime—and Tucker Carlson

Published | Video Starts at 07:01

And in particular there were two different full blown campaigns. There were four different narratives being run simultaneously. There were 4,441 fake accounts that were pushing this disinformation narrative. And 28.1% of all of the comments targeting my post were fake. That was a very deliberate response from the Iranians. It's something they engage in regularly. But they saw this as enormously problematic. Well, fast forward to when the details of the MoU are announced. (07:01–07:11)

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Asserts that 28.1% of comments on his post were fake and orchestrated by Iranians.

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