An Israeli influence operation aimed to shape U.S. online discourse by using fake accounts to target Democratic lawmakers and discredit UNRWA. The operation involved hundreds of fake accounts promoting Israeli attacks on UNWRA and spreading disinformation through fake websites and mainstream media outlets. Pro-Israel groups supported by significant funding helped defeat progressive Gaza war critics in political races. The campaign utilized over 600 avatars to circulate content supporting Israel's stance and attacking Democratic lawmakers critical of Israel.
An Israeli campaign is using hundreds of online avatars and fake social media accounts to attack Democratic lawmakers. The campaign has used more than 600 avatars to send out 58,000 tweets and online posts to circulate content amplifying Israel’s stance https://t.co/7fPtkQryzz
An Israeli influence campaign is using hundreds of avatars and fake social media accounts to attack Democratic lawmakers. The avatars also posted stories on antisemitism in US colleges and “Judeo-Christian” values shared by Jews and African Americans https://t.co/0hxZiWCEO6
An Israeli influence campaign is using hundreds of online avatars and fake social media accounts to attack Democratic lawmakers and promote news articles that amplify Israel’s position on the war, according to the Israeli online watchdog, Fake Reporter https://t.co/EuxU0U1hm7
.@AOC has long been raising the alarm about AIPAC's threat to our democracy and she's joining voters across the country to call on Democrats to #RejectAIPAC once and for all. There's no room for an anti-abortion, insurrectionist Super PAC in the Democratic Party. https://t.co/ms2audg1sV
An Israeli influence campaign is using hundreds of online avatars and fake social media accounts to attack Democratic lawmakers critical of Israel and promote news articles disapproving of the United Nations Palestine refugee agency (Unrwa) https://t.co/ejXh17TM4v
Israeli influence campaign targeting African-American lawmakers critical of Gaza war: Report https://t.co/0B1Yleba18
Must read from @kinsellawarren on the organized, global online campaign against Israel, Canada’s connection to it and where the money is coming from. https://t.co/mMxn2puwdD
SCOOP: A leading progressive group is throwing its support behind Reps. Summer Lee, a member of the "Squad," and Andy Kim, for their criticisms of Israel's actions in Gaza as they both face establishment forces in their 2024 primaries. https://t.co/OGYvQ8IgEE
AIPAC isn't running ads against Great Replacement Theory spouting insurrectionists--it endorses them. Most AIPAC-affiliated group ads have nothing to do with US-Israel policy. It's just another Republican super PAC targeting progressive Democrats. https://t.co/6lZomsMLgG
Pro-Israel groups help defeat progressive Gaza war critics in Illinois races / @Bsamuels0 https://t.co/iajdKfEAZD
An Israeli influence campaign spread disinformation using 4 websites: 3 fake ones and … the Wall Street Journal https://t.co/ae692ZU8MM
Big night for pro-Israel groups like AIPAC and Democratic Majority for Israel, whose hundreds of thousands of dollars helped defeat progressive Gaza war critics challening incumbent Democrats (who are, ironically, closely linked with J Street) https://t.co/TPxb6O5NrV
A new report says a network of fake accounts across multiple platforms has been promoting Israeli attacks on UNWRA https://t.co/7mLYA0v3LA https://t.co/7H5NnJwark
In a report by Israeli watchdog Fake Reporter, investigators found that over 500 accounts boosted identical language from three fake online outlets. https://t.co/zWVXcm9nnP
.@omerbenj Israeli influence operation using hundreds of fake accounts targets US lawmakers, especially Democrats - to push reports that UNRWA staff participated in the Oct 7 Hamas attack @haaretzcom https://t.co/j3mSCWZNEt
"The [Reject AIPAC] coalition includes Justice Democrats, the Working Families Party, Jewish Voice for Peace Action, the IfNotNow, Sunrise, Democratic Socialists of America, Our Revolution, Gen-Z for Change, and the GND Network." https://t.co/CXemfwzuCX via @MNReformer
Haaretz finds that Israel was running a social media influencing operation using fake accounts to influence Members of Congress and one of their top targets was Richie Torres https://t.co/3dfvfCv9td
.@haaretzcom's @omerbenj on an Israeli influence operation that aimed to shape U.S. online discourse – with a special focus on supporting official Israeli efforts to discredit UNRWA – and that targeted Democratic lawmakers: https://t.co/3u3WGWRCgj
Israeli influence operation targets U.S. lawmakers on Hamas-UNRWA / @omerbenj https://t.co/NkDCxRht0G