The Ham Mihan newspaper: Raisi’s presence on Instagram means we are deserving, you are not.
The Ham Mihan newspaper considered Ebrahim Raisi’s presence on Instagram and his effort to obtain a blue tick as conveying the message that ordinary users do not deserve to use this platform, and only we, the elite, have the merit to use it.
The fact that the president and his government members justify filtering under the pretext of circumstances while simultaneously using filtered platforms is a contradictory point.
In previous governments, we also witnessed members of the cabinet using filtered platforms, including Twitter, but at least they did not verbally endorse filtering, and there were even unsuccessful attempts to lift the filtering.