Israel Reportedly Used Fake Social Media Accounts To Garner Support From US Lawmakers On Gaza War (www.forbes.com)
from technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com to technology@beehaw.org on 16 Aug 2024 15:15
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some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org on 16 Aug 2024 16:12 next collapse

Yes. It is known and documented (on video) that soldiers are employed to do exactly this. You can find this with a web search.

princessnorah@lemmy.blahaj.zone on 16 Aug 2024 20:27 collapse

It’s wild to me that more people don’t know about Unit 8200. Israel is up there with Russia, USA and China when it comes to state-sanctioned cyber attack capabilities.

theangriestbird@beehaw.org on 16 Aug 2024 16:31 next collapse

go to reddit/r/worldnews, you can see the op alive and well over there.

sunzu2@thebrainbin.org on 16 Aug 2024 16:55 next collapse

It is all a charade and they are all on it.

Only people who don't seem to understand this are the poorly educated plebs larping it as gospel.

System working as designed

kindenough@kbin.earth on 16 Aug 2024 17:23 next collapse

There was a time when technology was considered communal progress, exciting and uplifting, in my days people (home computing enthousiast) getting together at a community center, for example C64 and Amiga gatherings in the Hague in the Netherlands, talking about what games, software you had packed or unpacked on the limited disk space you had, hardware modifications, LAN parties, shareware, mod trackers, group demo's et cetera.

It was really good as long as it lasted and better than anything social media. Excuse my rant I am old and getting depressed from 'techmology' news.

Tiltinyall@beehaw.org on 16 Aug 2024 19:46 collapse

What I remember from those times though, is Isreal outright lying about the atrocities they were commiting in Gaza and the West Bank. They were so heavy handed with their message even back then. And those social media accounts that are trying to garner support for them now have the exact same flavor. Spotted the lies immediately after this conflict started.

kindenough@kbin.earth on 16 Aug 2024 23:36 collapse

Earlier also Lebanon. I met some wonderful people from Lebanon who came here as refugees to the Netherlands. At least they had means to escape. My father in law is Jewish and he doesn't like what has been going on since forever in Israel or the family he has there.

Tiltinyall@beehaw.org on 17 Aug 2024 00:11 collapse

It honestly amazes me how they have managed to silence the people who dissent. It’s that loud over the top rhetoric, it’s an old practice and very annoying.

cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone on 16 Aug 2024 21:45 collapse

why would they need fake social media accounts when they have aipac?

nonailsleft@lemm.ee on 16 Aug 2024 22:08 collapse

Yeah it’llbe interesting to find out who these lawmakers are that need more than money