Iranian state TV news interrupted by anti-regime hack

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

50% : The hack interrupted a broadcast of Islamic Republic of Iran News Network (IRINN), part of the Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting (IRIB) corporation.
50% : Activists inside and outside Iran have been looking for ways to maintain internet connections despite the disconnections deployed by the authorities.
46% : The protest material broadcast in the hack at 21:00 local time included the words "Women, life, liberty", which has become the slogan of the nationwide anti-regime protests in Iran that are now in their fourth week, and also "Join us and rise up.
44% : TechCrunch reported on October 5 how one group of activists has come up with a new approach involving the use of 'Trojan Horse' Tor servers inside Iran.
39% : Partly in order to disrupt those looking to spread the unrest, Iran has been introducing sweeping internet and social media blackouts almost since the protests began.
38% : Also on Saturday, unverified social media videos appeared that seemed to show female students at a university in Tehran chanting "get lost" during a visit by President Ebrahim Raisi.

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