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

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

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Post by axus »

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 "…

I've always been a keyboard warrior, volunteering to defend my country on message boards.

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

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Post by jhp123 »

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.

> How many congressmen are dual citizens with Israeli citizenship?

Zero? I can't find a reliable source for any congress member being an Israeli citizen

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

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Post by dang »

nextstep wrote: post #11

Also reported on by NY Times and posted here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40583068 but like most articles about Israeli hacking, US Big Tech involvement in the war, etc it was immediately flagged once it reached the front page. I don’t know how much of this is moderators removing posts, or if there is a pro-Israel brigade that is censoring HN’s front page.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40586961

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

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Post by wonderwonder »

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.

"How many congressmen are dual citizens with Israeli citizenship"

By this do you mean Jews? Should be prevent Jewish people from being allowed in congress?

"AIPAC is allowed to exist" Should we prevent it from existing becuase it supports a Jewish state? You have no issue with the hundreds of other lobbying groups, just the jewish one.

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

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Post by wonderwonder »

jhp123 wrote: post #52
greenavocado wrote: post #32

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

> How many congressmen are dual citizens with Israeli citizenship? Zero? I can't find a reliable source for any congress member being an Israeli citizen

OP means Jews

https://www.worldjewishcongress.org/en/news/defining-antisem...

Lots of people going masks off now that is cool to be anti-semitic again but now we call it anti-zionist.

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

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Post by dang »

TwentyPosts wrote: post #35
jules-jules wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

[flagged]

You'd be surprised by how many HN users would prefer to keep politics-first-tech-second news off the site.

This issue goes back as far as the site itself: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17014869

and the way we handle it has was worked out over a decade ago: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so...

If anyone has questions about this, take a look at those links and if there's something unanswered there, I'd be happy to take a crack at it.

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

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Post by 123yawaworht456 »

nextstep wrote: post #11

Also reported on by NY Times and posted here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40583068 but like most articles about Israeli hacking, US Big Tech involvement in the war, etc it was immediately flagged once it reached the front page. I don’t know how much of this is moderators removing posts, or if there is a pro-Israel brigade that is censoring HN’s front page.

they used to be really unapologetic about it

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish_Internet_Defense_Force

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DWD5xiiafBc

it's prudent to assume such operations are still ongoing

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

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Post by Hikikomori »

golergka wrote: post #41
greenavocado wrote: post #32

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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?

South Africa was also their ally in that region.
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