NYT: Israel Launched Covert Social Media Campaign to Influence U.S. Lawmakers | Amanpour and Company

AI-generated content has opened up a new front in the Israel-Hamas war. In a New York Times investigation, reporter Sheera Frenkel reveals how an alleged Israeli campaign on social media attempted to alter the narrative, and influence American lawmakers, after the horrors of October 7th. Frenkel speaks with Hari Sreenivasan about this new front in the propaganda wars and its effect on American foreign policy.
Originally aired on June 11, 2024
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[@t.a.k.palfrey3882]

And we are surprised?

[@Zero11_ss]

They also had propaganda ads on tv and on youtube but everytime i bring up how crazy it is for that to be allowed in America, people deny it or act like its totally fine. This is foriegn propaganda being streamed right to American homes!

[@alviverdeus]

Not just foreign propaganda. But foreign propaganda that distorts US policy to the detriment of the US and its people.

[@metronyc2855]

This story will fly way under the main stream media radar.

[@msolomonii9825]

it'll be actively ignored!

[@nightlightabcd]

As it will right wing media propaganda!

[@Keepthepeacesharethelove]

They are complicit. That's why they will not report it.

[@neiljeffers4746]

Israel lobby AIPAC $Ts bribe politicians USA UN NATO peace diplomacy war cheerleader corporate TV ratings. Russia China Saudi Korea dictator netanyahu resign Zion apartheid nuclear weapons Armageddon apocalypse revenge. Gaza West Bank Lebanon Jordan Jerusalem Egypt Syria Yemen Iran Ukraine Afghanistan Iraq

[@Zero11_ss]

Because they are controlled by [?]

[@cameronsexton6239]

As if Bibi and the Mossad would do such a thing... oh, wait a moment.

[@sawtooth808]

You mean like the time he brushed off Mossad’s report saying that an event like Oct 7 was in the works…two years ago now

[@carlosacta8726]

Neverrrr😭😭😭

[@plunderpunk2]

Frankly, it's nearly impossible for Israel to win over the conscientious minded. Witnessing their Hasbara kick into high gear since 10/7 has magnified the vacuousness of their catch-all, ready made, rehearsed and rehashed arguments. Anyone who weaponizes a genuine problem (ie antisemitism) to the extent they have, have already lost. Journalistic voices with integrity in their own regional media have disproved countless claims popularized in the US media used as subtext to raze Gaza and further terrorize the West Bank.

[@ndeamonk24]

Influence them with social media?!?! Just have AIPAC keep the checks coming. They don't need social media

[@tommcfadden5232]

Propaganda is nothing new. Dig deeper and you will find Hamas is doing it too as is the Communist Party of China, the Russians etc.

[@billscott-wm8kq]

Just more mass-distraction from the real crimes of AIPAC and the daily atrocities being committed by israel in the Gaza Gulag!

[@elysedewyngaert178]

Do you mean the billions Qatar, Millions Iran, Turkey, Syria, Iraq, the UAE( that’s millions from all the above listed Muslim nations) that also embrace the Muslim Brotherhood Jihadi Islamic Caliphate ideology , ISIS K, Al queda, Janjaweed, Boko haram, Taliban to name a few of their terrorist armies. Al- Jazeera has been a mastermind of PR, turning go pro terror attacks an action movie for the devotees and creating a screen actors guild of victimhood for the terrorist enablers in Gaza. Rebroadcasting dead and destruction from Syria as Gaza, the use of flour to claim children were in a bomb zone when they weren’t and then the mangled truck that got a quick wardrobe change with UNRWA food sacks and posters. What is it 22 Muslim countries, millions of Muslim on Muslim deaths, famine the whole Muslim/ non Muslim world could care less. Christians are murdered en mass, religious structures desecrated and no comment, no marches. Israel is attacked by an arm of psychopaths raping, burning families alive, torturing, mutilating people( infants through the elderly) kidnapping the living and dead again the media, including Ms Amanpour are flippant as to how dare Israel try to address the rampant false narratives/ propaganda. Ms. Amanpour can join the BS pedaled by Al- Jazeera, BBC, Sky News, CNN et. al. I am not buying any of it.

[@azalia423]

They regurgitate the "stories" for justification to their constituents. That's what my Congresswoman does.

[@dscmex]

😅😅😅

[@71suns]

EVERYBODY KNOWS. EVERYBODY SEES.

[@Keepthepeacesharethelove]

I really don't think everybody because there is an unbelievable amount of simple minded or stupid people.

[@jacobjorgenson9285]

But nobody acts 🤷‍♂️

[@rmzidann]

What? Aren’t every single Congressperson and senator assigned an AIPAC lobbyist who has their personal cell phone?… I mean.. come on. They are for the most part bought and paid for by lobbyists, especially AIPAC !! 🤣🤣

[@Keepthepeacesharethelove]

Most of lawmakers are bought and payed by A*PAC and other lsrl organisations. The others A*PAC tries to vote them out by donating to canidates which support them. But in this report it is about to influence or indoctrinate the civilians.

[@JJ-fr2ki]

As an American Jew, I don’t like the idea of a department of diaspora affairs. I don’t like falling within the scope of a department in Israel, which implicitly is claiming to represent and manage my interests. I would like to hear more about this department.

[@PulverturmZA]

Wait until you find out about hasbara.

[@-in-the-meantime...]

They spin everything possible. Im sure 40 years ago it had good intention but your Zionists have taken advantage of just abiut everyone at this point. Especially American tax payers.

[@sharonholdren7588]

For those who do not recognize "hasbara" it had the general meaning of explaining away actions or events in a favorable light. Somewhat like the famous quote attributed to Virginia colonial patriot Patrick Henry: "My country, right or wrong!"

[@-in-the-meantime...]

@@sharonholdren7588 illsreal's method of*

[@gerryburntwood9617]

As a half Jew from the UK it disturbs me that we are labelled as the ‘wrong kind of Jews’ by an entity called Board of Deputies,who thinks they represent all 270,000 British Jews, just because we do not support Israelis committing genocide and stealing Palestinian lands!!

[@fattymoddy]

Such a beautiful and frank discussion and this NY Times reporter is so eloquent and straightforward. BTW, PBS is the only media in the US that reports facts and truth. They talk to journalists and reporters with integrity and ethics. Now you can imagine the garbage the country is bombarded with from the mainstream media.

[@briganja]

PBS newshour is mainstream…. Also this show is produced by cnn… the woman who broke the story did so for the NYT, one of the biggest newspapers in the country…

[@northstarmind1049]

Actually that's not generally true about PBS. In fact, for example, the PBS Newshour has been underwriten by agricorp (like Archer Daniels Midland) to the military weapons systems industry (like Boeing). Things have to get *SO BAD* in or from or by Israel for a report like this to show up on *any* PBS news program, or to even be researched & reported by the NYT's.

[@azalia423]

The initial interviews I saw on PBS were racist against Palestinians and slanted toward Israel. Often PBS didn't report Israel's carnage.

[@shafuize]

The mainstream media, including PBS, CNN, NPR, MSNBC, NYT have acted as propaganda machines for Israel. They are complicit in the murder of Palestinians. All of them have been exposed.

[@eoharafisher]

I get the NYT, and in general, they are a mouthpiece for Israel and Biden ( and yes, I’m a Democrat. But very disgusted by the continued bombing of Gaza.) Slightly hope there’s a slight change…

[@-in-the-meantime...]

Friend we need more than a slight change. The DNC and this whole getup has been fingering our 'choices' since going into the '16 election.

[@azalia423]

I find it useful to keep in mind that the NYT's biggest shareholders are prominent funders of Aipac. Not only does the NYT publish false stories about Hamas, it also re-publishes articles touting antidepressants using falsified studies, this in the face of new studies debunking the false studies and showing the terrible dangers of these drugs.

[@Christmas12]

In the not so distant past it would have been unheard of to see reporting on this stuff in the mainstream media, especially in the middle of an active Israeli offensive against Palestinians- things have changed

[@personaldevelopment9874]

"To learn who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize."

[@andypitt2848]

Thank you for this reporting

[@Majickcharm]

No one talks about the horrors of the last 76 years and the Israeli atrocities in the Middle East.

[@doctor_fever]

Likewise, no ones talks about the existential threats Israelis have faced through no fault of their own since Day One 76 years ago.

[@tatyanaparker7268]

Actually in two years Syria Asad created more "atrocities", than Israel in 76 years. But those "atrocities" don't bother your kind, like any other "atrocities", because you are so not antisemitic 😂😂😂

[@xBoy422]

@@tatyanaparker7268so because Syria Asad did it, it gives netanyahu a green light to genocide indigenous people?? Is this really your argument here? You are a textbook definition of psychopath 😕

[@xBoy422]

@@tatyanaparker7268 Syria Asad did it so it gives you and Netanyahu green light to lunch an atrocities on indigenous people?? Is this really your argument here ? What a sick psychopath individual you are 😮

[@xBoy422]

Syria Asad did it so it gives you and netanyahu green light to lunch an atrocities on indigenous people?? Is this really your argument here ? What a sick psychopath individual you are

[@JOJOA88-to8ym]

They will say it was accident😂😂

[@Lynn-i2w]

Kick AIPAC type organizations and charities out of my country.🇺🇸

[@sanjabegovic729]

Crooks

[@PLBoogie]

They control members of Congress to have Israeli interest over Americas

[@beefandbarley]

Psychopaths

[@damham5689]

Problem is many dont read replies to the propagandist post and just repeat the lie. For an "ally" of the US to do this is 100% unacceptable.

[@billscott-wm8kq]

Just ask any of the "survivors" from the israeli attack on the USS Liberty in 1967 about unacceptable acts of "so-called" allies.

[@disklamer]

Haha yeah the US does not do propaganda, like, at all, and US media companies are bias-free, never run paid campaigns, and are completely fair and balanced. Sure.

[@PulverturmZA]

You should do a segment on Hasbara. There is a lot of it on Social media.

[@azalia423]

Pro-Israel propaganda armies swarm the alternative News reports as well. Often they're vicious.

[@irenenabizadeh6802]

Great interview! Israel has lost all credibility and the world’s sympathy!

[@bsahmed1]

Israel never had credibility except in the mind the naïve ignorant people, wake up. Thanks to social media and spread of information, with a couple of clicks and with courage and human decency, the truth shines for every seeker to recognize. Plan Dalet is a good way to start your search. It details the ethnic cleansing of Palestinian villages and towns from their inhabitants. Search Dier Yassin, Tantura, Ramla, Lydda, Safsaf, Sa’sa, Kfar Qassim, Qibya and hundreds of other massacres committed by Zionist Hagana, Irgun and Stern gangs in 1947-1948 with the help of British Occupying forces. 1. 1948 Creation & Catastrophe (2017) 2. Gaza by Garry Keane & Andrew McConnell (2019) 3. Tantura (2022) 4. Gaza Fights for Freedom, a film by Abby Martin (2019) 5. The Iron Wall, a film by Mohammed Alatar (2006) 6. 5 Broken Cameras (2011) 7. Jenin Jenin (2002) 8. Born in Gaza (2014) 9. The Law in These Parts by Ra’anan Alexandrowicz & Liran Atzmor (2011) 10. Naila and the Uprising (2017) 11. To Shoot an Elephant by Alberto Arce and Mohammad Rujailahk (2009) 12. Mayor by David Osit (2022) 13. Slingshots Hip Hop (2008) 14. Occupation 101: Voices of the Silenced Majority (2006) 15. With God on Our Side (2010) 16. How the Palestinians Were Displaced in 1948 17.The Village Under the Forest (2013) 18. Roadmap to Apartheid (2012) 19. The sons of Eilaboun. 20. The massacre of Safsaf. 21. 1948, a documentary by Bakri about the massacre of Dawaymeh near Hebron. 22. Tantura, Safsaf, Sa’sa, Kfar Qassim and other massacres. 23. Order number 40 issued by IDF on November 25,1948 to depopulate south and central Palestine and moved the refugees to area surrounding Gaza city, thus creating the Gaza Strip. Other resources: Voices of the Silenced Majority (2006) 15. With God on Our Side (2010) 16. How the Palestinians Were Displaced in 1948 | The Village Under the Forest (2013) Remember 1948 Deir Yassin massacre = Palestinian Auschwitz committed by the survivors of the holocaust. Boycott apartheid genocidal Israel. Don’t be the last to condemn the colonial apartheid state like you were in South Africa. The Zionist apartheid colonial outpost is controlling ALL aspects of our lives. It is though NOT prepared for what the new generation is witnessing live on social media directly from occupied Palestine. Thanks to the social media and spread of information, Palestine is finally freeing us from this plague. No state has a right to exist, but every person does. Soviet Union, Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia, Rhodesia and countless others are states destined to fall and they did. This one is no different. Criticizing Israel is NOT anti-Semitic, the same way criticizing Saudi Arabia is not anti-Islam, criticizing Myanmar is not anti-Buddhism and criticizing India is not anti-Hinduism. Demolishing the apartheid state would be OK and in fact be the only way to save everybody including the Israelis. The two-state solution is no longer possible. Zionists stole ALL the land. The only solution left is ONE demilitarized secular state under international control with ALL people with documents showing ownership rights related to the land between the river and sea. We need to abolish all racial and religious favoritism. Refugees should be allowed to return if they so wish. We need to dismantle the apartheid colonial state. Peace will NEVER be realized without justice for all. The answer is very clear and everybody should support it. One country from the river to the sea with the two peoples living together in a democratic system is the only solution. Such unitary binational state is advocated by several former Zionists and current historians including Miko Peled, Ilan Pappe, Gabor Mate, Norman Finkelstein, Barnaby Raine and others and supported by the majority of the Arab population of Palestine. The imperial colonial Zionist outpost is not working and it would NEVER work. At the height of the extermination campaign conducted by Nazi Germany, they killed 127 children per day in Auschwitz. In Gaza genocide, the Zionist apartheid ethno-national state killed 139 children per day. See the difference for yourself. “Denying people the right of return to their homeland, and at the same time offering this right to others who have no connection to the land, is a model of undemocratic practice.” -Israeli historian Pappe “Since its establishment, Israel has engaged in brutal oppression of the rights of Palestinians. Thousands of Palestinians are imprisoned, beaten and tortured; children are taken from their beds and beaten by soldiers who are armed to the teeth.”-Israeli historian Miko Peled. "I am a freedom fighter- says teenager Ahed Tamini, the Rosa Parks of Palestine in her memoir “They called me a lioness, A Palestinian Girl’s Fight for Freedom.” This book is an eye-opener and a worthwhile read. Plan Dalet, the blueprint of the ethnic cleansing of Palestinian villages and towns started in December 1947 and was FINALIZED by the High Command of the Zionist leadership on March 10, 1947. Not a SINGLE Arab army soldier had entered the Palestine/Israel before the Zionists declared the birth of their state on May 15, 1948. By then, more than 300000 defenseless civilians had already been massacred, expelled, raped, and mutilated and more than 300 villages and towns emptied, destroyed, torched, and imploded with dynamite under the watchful eyes of and with the support of the British soldiers and police, who left the country on the fateful day. The Zionists even ran out of dynamite because of the extent of their barbarity. By the end of that year, 20000 civilians had been killed and 750000-900000 defenseless civilians, 85% of the population who had lived in the land that became Israel, had been rendered refugees. 530 villages were destroyed and depopulated. Zionists criminals even murdered the Swedish diplomat Count Folke Bernadotte, the UN peace envoy in Sept 1948 because he was a witness to their crimes. He objected to the Zionist plan of ethnically cleansing Palestine of its native inhabitants. He, by the way, as the head of the Swedish Red Cross, had helped in the release of about 20000-30000 inmates from the Nazi concentration camps in Germany during WW2. Videos and resources you might find educational: Warning, they may be difficult to get because of censorship. Hundreds of books were written on the subject too. It is VERY easy to get informed. We cannot and should not prohibit freedom of speech to anyone, least those who oppose our government's fascist and violent tactics against our youth, our students, our academic institutions, and our independent journalists. The King-Crane commission set up by Woodrow Wilson and approved by the Paris Peace Conference of 1919 concluded that the Jewish minority of Palestine, 6% of the population at the time, would need the help of a minimal of 50,000 British occupying force troops to establish the Zionist dream promised by the infamous Belfour declaration. The British colonial force ended up needing 100,000 soldiers to crush the Great revolt of 1936-1939, during which 14-17% of the male Palestinian population were killed, injured, exiled or imprisoned. Pretty disgusting history. Destructive ideologies mirror the calamities they produce and often become defined from the perspective of their victims. Just as Nazi ideology produced the Holocaust and Afrikaner nationalism generated apartheid, Zionism similarly birthed the Nakba. Zionism is not only racist but anti-Semitic, and anti-Semitic not only towards Arab Palestinians, but also towards Jews. Europeans invented the racialist conception of the "Semite" and the Zionist movement adopted wholesale anti-Semitic ideologies destroying Jewish cultures and languages in the Diaspora, thus ultimately leading to the transformation of the Jew into the anti-Semite and the Palestinian into the Jew. 1937: Haifa massacre 1937: Jerusalem massacre 1938: Haifa massacre 1939: Balad Al Sheikh massacre 1939: Haifa massacre 1947: Haifa massacre 1947: Abassiya massacre 1947: Al-Khisas massacre 1947: Bab Al-Amud massacre 1947: Jerusalem massacre 1947: Sheikh Bureik massacre 1948: Tantura massacre 1948: Jaffa massacre 1948: Deir Yassin massacre 1956: Khan Yunis massacre 1967: Jerusalem massacre 1982: Sabra al-Shatila massacre 1990: Al Aqsa massacre 1994: Ibrahim mosque massacre 2002: Jenin refugee camp massacre 2008: Gaza massacre 2012: Gaza massacre 2014: Gaza massacre 2018: Gaza massacre 2021: Gaza massacre 2023 - ongoing: Gaza genocide It is NOT really a democracy when you only have two political parties both of which controlled by a foreign entity. They are two cheeks of the same foreign Ass. Choose your favorite fascist leader in November in the latest charade of episodic meaningless polling. The MSM is the latest tool of the 1492 colonization project. That is why they object to what the decolonizing movement the liberation of Palestine represents. Thanks Palestine for waking us up. "You have the right to free speech only because no-one listens to you" Shaheed Bolsen, 2024. Exactly what Democracy IS.? The Right to episodically vote, NOTHING else. "Liberals condemn every war and atrocity except the ones being carried out right now. Liberals support every liberation movements, unless they happen to be ongoing." If this genocide is not halted, it will presage a new world order, a world where the old rules more honored in the breach and observance no longer matter. It will be a world where nations with vast bureaucratic structures and technologically advanced military systems carry out in public view massive killing projects. The industrialized nations weakened, fearful of global chaos, are sending an ominous message to the global south and anyone who might think of revolt ‘’ we will kill you without restraints and no one will stop us. One day you will all be Palestinians’’.

[@JasonLaveKnotts]

That's not how empathy works, I believe you mean sympathy.

[@stephensaines7100]

@@JasonLaveKnotts Or both? Empathy: Oxford Dictionary: [the ability to understand and share the feelings of another.]

[@noahghost4476]

This is not even newsworthy. Anyone not using AI now is incompetent, and anyone in a conflict like that that doesn't use influence campaigns is incompetent. You think the anti-zionists are not doing this?

[@TheLegionsofScipioAmericanus]

Irene, you quite clearly have no empathy for anyone. You are the problem here.

[@JasonLaveKnotts]

Follow the Motive.

[@zarahcastro3601]

The difficulty/problem of israel saying that they are looking into it or investigating something (that favors them if it works) has internatioal law implications- that israel has a credible group in government to do it BUT IT DOESN'T from so many occassions that Israel says they are looking into but relies on people just forgetting about it. In other words nothing comes out of israel invesrigating things that does not benefits them. FREE PALESTINE!

[@disklamer]

Yeah and Hamas is just sitting there knitting doilies.

[@azalia423]

@@disklamer Ah, a deflection in action. Anything not to look at themselves.

[@disklamer]

@@azalia423 You must be the expert

[@Annissa-dv6kc]

“They want to know if there are other campaigns like this…”😂

[@mikeyang6003]

Big fat cheques work better!

[@kevinjenner9502]

The best government money can buy…AIPAC

[@HowShouldIKnow6543]

Are we done with AIPAC yet??

[@-in-the-meantime...]

Nobody else found it absurdly telling, let alone weird, when illsreal ran super bowl ads about themselves? 🤪 Hell we turned it off was sickening.

[@alviverdeus]

Considering about 99% of Congress is on AIPAC's payroll, how "covert" was it really?

[@doctor_fever]

One of our primary jobs as voters is to provide electeds with enough input so that they can say to their contributors "Thanks for the lunch money, but my voters are pressuring me to vote their voice on this issue" (And every issue. Our engagement makes the "democracy" part work).

[@ShankarSivarajan]

@@doctor_fever Is that your impression of how "representative democracy" _actually_ works, or you engaging in wishful thinking about how it _ought_ to work?

[@carlosacta8726]

EXAAACTL!!!!!!!!!!😭😭😭😭

[@doctor_fever]

​@@ShankarSivarajan Thanks for asking. It was Benjamin Franklin's "if we can keep it" wishful thinking about our newly formed republic. That votes are more persuasive than cynical business expenses has also been my lived experience, as well as that of many countries' populations who proved they had what it takes to draw 3.5% of their neighbors peacefully into the streets to drive change. I refer here to a BBC article by David Robson, reporting on research by political scientist Erica Chenoweth into comparative change-making by violent versus non-violent protest. Studying over 300 instances over the last century, she found that nonviolence was twice as effective as violence, with the adjunct fact that about 3.5% of a population is the magic number to make change. Our most recent proof here in the U.S. was the 4 - 4.5% of Americans in 2020 whom Black Lives Matter led in the streets after George Floyd's murder. With about twice that proportion of Israelis protesting in 2023, I believe they were on the cusp then of the changes we see happening there now. While 10/7 interrupted that momentum, it didn't - and, based on historical and current results, cannot - stop it. Recent reports are that Gazans are vocally expressing some of that same energy about their leadership. We can apply the 3.5% rule again in the United States, this time to stamp money out of politics. If one hundred Americans persuaded just two friends and neighbors to persuade two friends and neighbors and so on every week, we would have the necessary twelve million Americans ready to march money out within three months. And we would.

[@ShankarSivarajan]

@@doctor_fever That'd be a bit more than 10 million people for the US? Okay, that sounds like a reasonable estimate: if you have that many people strongly in favor of a single concrete policy, without a similar number is strong opposition, I'd agree it's likely to be implemented. However, I think you're mistaken about what it is the Israel protests last year were for: it wasn't in favor of the Palestinian rights or "international law."

[@midknight1968]

The cat is out of the bag, Europe chose fascism to help them is so sick😢

[@liena7907]

They are especially active on the KZbin Aljazeera comments section

[@-in-the-meantime...]

BBC cherry pick deletes comments to alter comment threads in illsreals favor.

[@heliosmou]

I watch Al Jazeera and also read comments. I doubt AI can replicate the sophistication of those who actually contribute and provide broad historical perspectives that are not hard to fact-check. It would help if you could provide a specific example to back-up your claim. Plus they have historians as guests - something you’ll never witness here - who have been studying the history of Palestine and Israel for decades and continue to do so. One must consider multiple perspectives to reach an informed opinion. Germany and France are interesting. But nothing is as intriguing as watching journalists who have broken ties with mainstream media and do what they love doing - reporting.

[@liena7907]

@@heliosmou agree

[@nightlightabcd]

It wouldn't take all that much, being that so many of them are on the take from Israel anyway!

[@GrantSR]

Sometimes, a social media campaign such as this is not designed specifically to CONVINCE politicians of anything. It is designed to give them cover for doing what they were going to do anyway.

[@ISpitHotFiyaa]

In this day and age I would think that if a congressman gets a letter from someone claiming to be experiencing antisemitism on campus or any other problem then that congressman would first have some staffer look into the person sending the letter. Do they actually exist? Do they live in your district? Do they attend the school they claim to be attending? Is the return address or email address on the letter their actual address? If it were me I'd have the staffers do this for every letter that comes in. It's not that hard to pull up the voter registry or somebody's LinkedIn profile or even call the school. And if I actually wanted to talk about that letter in a speech or make policy based on it then I'd go further than that. A congressman can't afford the hit to their reputation that would occur if they get conned by some Israeli spy or Russian bot or whoever.

[@Keepthepeacesharethelove]

Unfortunately that's not the reality.

[@PamDigiovanni]

Have you heard of AIPAc??? 🤨

[@azalia423]

Thank you to Sheera Frenkel and Amanpour and Company.

[@mohammaddavoudian7897]

I am so, so grateful for the fact that we are able to find and hear the truth. This was not possible a few years ago. Israel has lost any respect it might have had in the past. Never again.

[@oneof6billionpeople]

This is outrageous! I’m going to write my congresswoman Elise Stefanik and I’m sure she will diligently protect me as an American citizen!

[@heliosmou]

Chuckle

[@eliafuimaono]

The smart ppl told me internet trolls don't do much. Weird how they still get all this work...

[@Keepthepeacesharethelove]

I'm not so sure about that because there is an incredible amount of simple minded or stupid people.

[@sg5725]

@@Keepthepeacesharethelove, it’s not simple minded people. They are using the algorithm of these social media companies and weaponizing it. This is sophisticated to the level of Tide marketing campaign.

[@neilifill4819]

Shocking!! (Not really…)

[@cathypreston1095]

Very informative. Thank you

[@markotrieste]

Just ditch Twitter and Facebook and go out meet real people in real life.

[@PLBoogie]

Or better just don't believe or listen to the narrative that justifies the occupation and massacre

[@toddnorman1343]

She acted like to this normal, not foreign governments influencing, which is illegal.

[@Giantcrabz]

I am shocked this made it past the editorial board

[@iq-ride9329]

What? Social Media Campaign? did AIPAC run out of cash?

[@Keepthepeacesharethelove]

It is about influencing and indoctrinating the civilians.

[@iq-ride9329]

@@Keepthepeacesharethelove Covert Social Media Campaign to Influence U.S. Lawmakers

[@Keepthepeacesharethelove]

@@iq-ride9329 No, they are already bought. Didn't you see the reports hier on youtube?

[@Use_fediverse-7814]

They launched it on NYT too, a few months ago, but they didnt catch on to that!

[@cathiuy5878]

And u think Iran and its cronies not doing even worst! U have lost integrity Amanpour! 😡😡😡

[@raeha7796]

Am I the only one who thinks that if Isreal has the financial resources and time to try to influence American lawmakers that they have the the finances and time to financially support their own war? How long do we sending money to a friend/enemy?

[@myronschabe]

How many brain cells does it take to understand that Israel is the only progressive democratic country in that region? Would you rather live in Tel Aviv or Tehran for example? Does it not make even a little bit of strategic sense for the US to have an interest in being an ally and support with/for Israel.

[@Afaq-vw6hm]

Why would Israel need chat gbt when each politician has an AIPAC guardian making sure they vote for the interests of Israel???

[@heliosmou]

Has NYT done any investigative reporting on AIPAC and its influence as a lobbyist organization on Congressional representatives?

[@guraminiro]

No, you don't say! 😂 Were you people sleeping for the past 50 years?? 😂

[@whansandceros]

You just have to laugh at this point. Vote with your wallet, vote on the ballot, vote your conscious.

[@ohallright2021]

Voting isn't a love tap, a hug or a kiss. It's a chess move. Who will unleash what on whom in 2025? Vote with your brain.

[@brawlpups3517]

I was a target of a related influence campaign using Facebook using compromised profiles. One reason FB likes you to make so many accounts and causing you to abandon accounts with very suspicious login problems and then have to create a new one and lose access to the previous one. Now I know what happens to the lost accounts, sold to the highest bidder. Probably completely illegal, impersonation.

[@njayaram3741]

Thank you. Would like to see some focus on India staring at fascism.

[@doctor_fever]

In the first segment of the broadcast from which this comes is a highly illuminating discussion by a former US envoy (ambassador?) to Israel and an author with deep understanding of the power dynamics. It provides analytic depth with zero spin.

[@nycgweed]

Really now😂

[@md.wahidulislam7800]

Free USA from AIPAC.

[@Use_fediverse-7814]

She's actually saying the truth about polarization. Other countries point to the injustices by Israel on Palestine which the US is a part of to promote their own agendas, which they oppress civilians too.

[@xBoy422]

Imagine if it was trump, bbc and other mainstream media will be covering this for months

[@diegogarridomendoza2828]

Good. Israel has been losing in the media manipulation front, and Hamas has been winning in this front since the beginning. Stand with Israel!

[@oldbeatpete]

everyone should smell propaganda when you hear it, see it, read it!

[@michaelplunkett5124]

Surprise, surprise?

[@mikesamo6382]

It’s all about money laundering, approve aids and get paid by the same money and have support to stay in office & do it again we need this money for our bridges and schools and healthcare but it’s looking like we need another 10y to find out and clean the swamp

[@Michael-q9k3r]

How about Al-Jazeera continuous campaign?

[@Michael-q9k3r]

How about the same campaigns by Iran, Hamas and and Turkey?

[@devoteeofgeorgesmiley7184]

See Benjamin Wittes at the Brookings Institute.

[@adamthaeer217]

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 The lawmakers got there AIPAC person already So no need to these kind of influence

[@garyweglarz]

I blame Putin!!!!!!! : )

[@heliosmou]

Who in Palestine has time to run a disinformation campaign?

[@Michael-q9k3r]

Would you also run a report about American funded NGOs in Israel that together with Ehud Barak try to split Israel unity at the time of existential war?

[@petrysialeroux8316]

I guess your congress members should be sufficiently informed without being influenced by any propaganda campaign.

[@atarahashirazi1941]

Jerusalem Post articles were regurgitated. No surprise there...but if you trace them back it does create an 'echo' that makes it sound louder than it actually is. People with limited 'internet literacy' might not notice, but it's pretty obvious that that was used for one of the "anti-semitic campus crisis" things going around. Probably also not a coincidence that Forbes suddenly decided Ivy League students aren't so great if you want good workers - the timing is probably not a coincidence. I bet they still make more money and get better jobs, even though, allegedly, CEOs and business leaders don't seem to think they are much better.

[@Michael-q9k3r]

Were the posts factual or not?

[@mohammadalhams7729]

As long as a,i,p,a,c is existing all american officials will be funded by peoples tax but doing for Is, ra, il .only.

[@mitakoda1]

❤️

[@davidk1493]

Only Israel would conduct such a campaign. Thank God no one else would do such a thing.

[@Keepthepeacesharethelove]

That's proven to be wrong by facts and data.

[@Lennybird91]

Israel closer to Russia than most realize.

[@kwikky22]

This explains Hillary Clinton's support of Latimer.

[@RobertaSirgutz]

There is another way this story could have been reported. On October 7th, Palestinians staged armed resistance at a music festival, inflicting mass casualties. Decades of oppression and an Israeli blockade keeping them segregated from the Jewish Israeli population. Reported bombing campaigns access to food, clean water, electricity and basic utilities has led to malnutrition and desperate living conditions. Settlements in Gaza and the West Bank have displaced Palestinians who are subject to violence against them by Settlers and IDF police. Is a full scale war, killing nearly 40,000 people, mostly civilians and children and wounding more, the appropriate response? This was clearly revenge and an attempt at genocide.

[@BellyLaugher]

Love this❣Thanks so much. I am seriously lacking in neuronal circuitry needed to summarize accurately/pithily. May I copy this & post it elsewhere, if I give you credit?

[@RobertaSirgutz]

@@BellyLaugher Depends on your audience and point of view. LMK.

[@dizhar8888]

Does she have any proof or is this a conspiracy?

[@foxxyboxxy9348]

now call it Israel's war on Gaza, and I can take you seriously.

[@shardanette1]

So, lots of countries do this. And everyone here is acting like Israel it the only one doing it. Thus the mindset of this crowd. Sad.

[@dharmabum1925]

Which other country has a lobbying cartel as aggressive and brazen as AIPAC? Which other country spends millions paying for attack ads to meddle in our local elections? Israel is by far the most aggressive. And since we send them billions every year, they're using our own money to meddle in our democracy.

[@alphaomega8373]

Tricksters are tricky.

[@ray_donovan_v4]

"propaganda war" Hi. My name is raymond donovan.. Seems some media execs decided it would be a good idea to make a show.. with my name.. And have been trying to platform a false persona, (basically identity theft) Im in competition with a "false persona". And "status".. and this involves music rights and royalties.. Theres a movie now too.. they made a soundtrack.. and decided to slap my name on it.. Im not happy that people i have zero affiliation with are profiting off my name.. Its racketeering.

[@ray_donovan_v4]

And I don't "have to" support "war". Thanks.

[@huulegobetrotter1660]

Friendnemies?

[@larasanders]

That woman's vocal fry drove me nuts.

[@elizamilkowski6967]

whats wrong with Amanpour

[@AlphaBravoCharlie777]

Explain?

[@myronschabe]

This is the thing...although this sounds sinister this is done all the time nowadays and is kind of a new standard, like you don't think the Muslim Brotherhood has not been waging a sneaky and sinister PR campaign over the last decades..not to mention Russia, China and who knows. This thing is more than just fighting for Palestinian rights...this is a big part of the problem. From what I have seen people in the west are incredibly uneducated about the whole situation and certainly it only makes sense for Israel to do this kind of thing...because this is just the way the world works nowadays and they don't have any room for error. People should try and feel what it must feel like being the only progressive country in the middle of theocracies and cultures that want to destroy you.

[@warmperson2007]

Haven't you noticed that it often happens that people reproach you for the misdeeds they commit themselves? Human beings tend to blame others for their own faults. Here it is clearly the case. It is Hamas and its allies who are doing everything possible to get people to talk about them favorably, and they have the nerve to accuse Israel of doing this!

[@beefandbarley]

⬆️ behold the propa that this segment is describing.

[@bk7166]

I dont like this Lady Amanpour. She is nasty. And she always in a Evil side. Sad!

[@cnaz8709]

What a load of BS.

[@eshetuGobena-rd9or]

Aman Poor the mother of all lie shame for this woman

[@yarongita]

So is anything wrong with that? Anything that is helpful to Israel is a blessing. This whole interview smells like something is wrong with it, which makes me wonder what’s wrong with PBS? Sounds biased on its face.

[@tarnopol]

Much more consequential Foreign Meddling than the Russians'. Not that I think the latter was nothing (it also wasn't The Giant Thing it was made out to be; neither that nor Nothingburger). But this should be a huge story. Isn't.

[@Rnankn]

The boy who cried wolf

[@danphillips9382]

The horseshoe extremist politics gang is gonna love this one

[@CW-xf1li]

15:02 😂 ya. That would be just crazy 🤡

[@AndrewAwad-l9j]

Zionism...

[@dennisfarris4729]

Pretty stupid way to go about it when all you had to do was organize the willing population you have.

[@curiouscat3384]

It's all about the Benjamins. That spigot controlled by our congress. And our president I'm sad to say.

[@greybushMEproductions]

Israel's propaganda pales in comparison o Russian Iranian Chinese propaganda. It's amateur hour.

[@Xtremedia01]

Can't be Israel doing that??... has to be Russia, lemme find out.

[@personaldevelopment9874]

FREE AMERICA FROM ISRAEL!!!!