»ChatGPT, the artificial intelligence-powered chatbot, was used to generate many of the posts. The campaign also created three fake English-language news sites featuring pro-Israel articles«

»The Israeli government’s connection to the influence operation, which The New York Times verified with four current and former members of the Ministry of Diaspora Affairs and documents about the campaign, has not previously been reported.«

»The first meeting was held in Tel Aviv in mid-October. It appeared to be an informal gathering where Israelis could volunteer their technical skills to help the country’s war effort, three attendees said. Members of several government ministries also took part, they said.

Participants were told that they could be “warriors for Israel” and that “digital campaigns” could be run on behalf of the country, according to recordings of the meetings.«

»Many of the campaign’s fake accounts on X, Instagram and Facebook posed as fictional American students, concerned citizens & local constituents. The accounts shared articles & statistics that backed Israel’s position in the war.

The operation focused on more than a dozen members of Congress, many of whom are Black & Democrats, according to an analysis by FakeReporter. Rep. Torres, a Democrat from NY who is outspoken about his pro-Israel views, was targeted in addition to Jeffries & Warnock.«

»On Facebook, the fake accounts posted on Mr. Jeffries’s public page by asking if he had seen a report about the United Nations’ employing members of Hamas in Gaza«

»The campaign also created three fake news sites with names like Non-Agenda and UnFold Magazine, which stole and rewrote material from outlets including CNN and The Wall Street Journal to promote Israel’s stance during the war«

»The effort was sloppy. Profile pictures used in some accounts sometimes didn’t match the fictional personas they cultivated, and the language used in posts was stilted.

In at least two instances, accounts with profile photos of Black men posted about being a “middle-aged Jewish woman.” On 118 posts in which the fake accounts shared pro-Israel articles, the same sentence appeared: “I gotta reevaluate my opinions due to this new information.”«

Den Report über das israelische Propaganda-Netzwerk kann man bei FakeReporter einsehen. Es konnte deutlich belegt werden, dass etwa die Verbreitung der Anschuldigungen über die UNRWA nach dem ersten Urteil vor dem ICJ über dieses Netzwerk auf Social Media verbreitet wurde. Ebenso wurde das Narrativ über Antisemitismus an US-Unis durch dieses Netzwerk befeuert.

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