Parliament commission on hybrid threats warns Azerabijanis against fake news

The Commission on Foreign Interference and Hybrid Threats of the Azerbaijani Parliament (Milli Majlis) conducts analyses within its authority regarding the protection of the state from external threats, its integrity and security, including malicious activities that could threaten the unity of the Azerbaijani people and national-moral values, and prepares recommendations for their exposure and prevention, Report informs, citing the parliament.

During the commission's monitoring, the purpose and characteristics of disinformation operations conducted mainly through social media platforms from a neighboring state's territory were investigated, and a network systematically and organizedly participating in the anti-Azerbaijan campaign was identified.

More than 300 accounts were involved in the campaign, with 124 operating on Facebook, 67 on Instagram, 67 on Telegram, 32 on YouTube, 10 on X, and others on various other social media platforms.

The investigations revealed coordinated harmful and radical religious-ideological propaganda aimed at creating discord among citizens, polarization, changing the constitutional structure of the state, and forming distrust towards state institutions.

"The Commission on Foreign Interference and Hybrid Threats calls on our citizens not to believe false and fake information.

The monitoring report will be submitted to relevant state bodies for appropriate measures to be taken," the commission said.