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Israel reportedly used fake social accounts to garner support from US lawmakers

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Post by golergka »

greenavocado wrote: post #32
pokepim wrote: post #3

Just as russian bots, israeli bots spreading fake news are worst thing that happened to our society. Crazy that people are falling for this but here we are

How many congressmen are dual citizens with Israeli citizenship? This is even worse. Also, AIPAC is allowed to exist . As a thought experiment replace Israeli with Russian citizenship for the Israeli dual citizens in Congress and replace AIPAC with a hypothetical Russian ARPAC. Imagine how crazy this would be. Yet the current situation is somehow completely acceptable.

> As a thought experiment replace Israeli with Russian citizenship for the Israeli dual citizens in Congress and replace AIPAC with a hypothetical Russian ARPAC

Is Russia the main American ally in the region that contributes enormously to American intelligence and R&D, while also supporting American military operations?

Re: Israel reportedly used fake social accounts to garner support from US lawmakers

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Post by TillE »

mathgradthrow wrote: post #37

Perhaps they are trying to achieve parity with the propaganda of their adversaries, Russia, China, and Qatar.

It's certainly striking that the quality of the propaganda is very much on par with that of Russia. It's clumsy, it often espouses political views (eg, the faux-anarchist stuff) which are incoherent in America or really anywhere in the West.

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Post by vitus »

SkipperCat wrote: post #4

Not a comment about who's right or wrong in this war, but it is fascinating that we have entered the age of the Internet being a place where warfare is fought. There have always been people posting web content about conflicts but now with Gaza and Ukraine, it seems that the nations fighting are actively looking at the internet as the fourth field of battle. Just waiting for a random US future president to create an "…

> Just waiting for a random US future president to create an "Internet" branch of the military. Maybe that's already happened.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Cyber_Command is the closest thing that we have today. It's not a formal branch, though, but rather a joint effort across the existing branches.

Re: Israel reportedly used fake social accounts to garner support from US lawmakers

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Post by 0xcafefood »

hartator wrote: post #40
mathgradthrow wrote: post #37

Perhaps they are trying to achieve parity with the propaganda of their adversaries, Russia, China, and Qatar.

Didn’t we almost go to war against Russia for doing precisely that?

Yes, but Israel is our Greatest Ally, so it's different when they do it.

Re: Israel reportedly used fake social accounts to garner support from US lawmakers

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Post by Hikikomori »

partiallypro wrote: post #31

I'm sure the story is true, but I doubt it was effective. I don't think most politicians are really looking at their social media given most of it is trolling junk. I'm sure Russia/Iran/Hamas adjacent countries were doing the same. I just don't think they have been that effective in getting politician support. Direct lobbying or phone/email is much more effective than an online troll farm to get the attention of a po…

Politicians are already influenced by AIPAC and other powerful groups working for Israel, doubt they needed more. They've managed to push anti-bds laws/orders in most states.

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Post by adolph »

hartator wrote: post #40
mathgradthrow wrote: post #37

Perhaps they are trying to achieve parity with the propaganda of their adversaries, Russia, China, and Qatar.

Didn’t we almost go to war against Russia for doing precisely that?

Isn't the US already in a (barely-proxy) war with Russia?
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