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James_Madison_Lives
01-21-2019, 11:51 PM
http://trumpforums.com/index.php?topic=6549.msg11789#msg11789


So if you post pictures in a thread of dead Palestinian babies from bombs in Gaza, these are the punks who start yelling "Pallywood!" - pretending they are Americans.


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The Prime Minister's office has also purchased promoted tweets for selected posts to increase their visibility...“The whole point of such efforts is to look like they are unofficial, just everyday people chatting online,” Dena Shunra, a Hebrew-English translator, told The Electronic Intifada, an online news site.



There it is. The US gives money to the Israeli government, and the Israeli government in turn uses some of it to propagandize Americans, by pretending they are just "everyday people" chatting online. So right there they are lying to you from the git go.


https://www.smh.com.au/technology/israeli-propaganda-war-hits-social-media-20140717-ztvky.html
Israeli propaganda war hits social media
By Matthew Hall

A computer lab staffed by students in an Israeli university is playing a key role in the war of information in the Gaza conflict.

Inspired by the role of social media during the Arab Spring and boosted by the support of the Israeli government and Israel Defence Force, student volunteers at the Interdisciplinary Center (IDC) Herzliya, a private university north of Tel Aviv, are waging their own propaganda war countering online anti-Israeli sentiment.


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Israel's Advocacy Room where volunteer students work social media channels "to explain" Israel's side of the story.


Staffed by approximately 400 student volunteers the project which goes by the name “Israel Under Fire”, claims to have succeeded in closing anti-Israeli pages on Facebook and challenging propaganda from Hamas, the organisation that governs the Gaza Strip and whose military arm is firing rockets at Israel.

According to Igal Raich, a 23-year-old IDC student who volunteers in what is called "The Advocacy Room", the project aims to counter what is perceived as a false representation of Israel in international and social media through Facebook, Twitter and YouTube.


“It is run by students who are all volunteers,” said Raich, who grew up in Canada before moving to Israel to study and also served in the Israeli military. “The school gave us a computer lab to work from and from nine in the morning until eight at night it is constantly full with student volunteers.”

Volunteer groups include a team that translates messages from Hebrew into 30 languages and a graphics team creating charts and images to be distributed via Facebook and Twitter.

There is also a video editing department and a talkback team that, according to Raich, trawls social media “looking for inconsistent facts like ‘Israel constantly kills women and children’”.

“They are skilled with what they do,” said Raich of the volunteers. “A lot of people buy what is posted online but before you make your judgment you need to know both sides of the story.”


Raich said students played a similar role during 2012’s Pillar of Defence operation – another Israeli military action against Hamas in Gaza. According to the university's figures, 1600 students volunteered to spread social media messages to an audience of 21 million people in 62 countries and in 31 languages. The Prime Minister’s office, the Minister of Foreign Affairs, and the Defence Force considered the university’s efforts so successful they sought to collaborate during subsequent military actions.

“We started to work together,” said Raich, who is sitting exams during the current conflict. “We are constantly getting updates from the Prime Minister’s office and the Minister of Foreign Affairs because they know we are successful in what we do.”


The Prime Minister's office has also purchased promoted tweets for selected posts to increase their visibility

Like missiles targeting both Gaza and Israel, the online battle is two-way traffic. As well as the student campaign, Israel’s IDF also runs social media accounts promoting Israeli perspectives.

A Palestinian point of view is represented in social media accounts run by the al-Qassam Brigades, the military arm of Hamas. Tweets from the al-Qassam Brigades include graphic images of dead or injured children and videos showing rockets being prepared for launch, presumably at Israel.

At the other end of the spectrum, Twitter accounts from civilians in Gaza detail the lives of scared teenagers counting Israeli bombs falling in residential areas and the effects of sleepless nights due to the sound of overhead drones.

Critics of the Israeli social media campaign suggest that, like many things on the internet, it is difficult to discern truth and are sceptical of the authenticity of pro-Israeli posts that appear to be organic but are government propaganda.

“The whole point of such efforts is to look like they are unofficial, just everyday people chatting online,” Dena Shunra, a Hebrew-English translator, told The Electronic Intifada, an online news site.

James_Madison_Lives
01-28-2019, 06:31 PM
More of your tax dollars on work fucking with you.

The Air Force created an army of online trolls
https://www.wearethemighty.com/articles/air-force-trolls

enhanced_deficit
01-28-2019, 06:41 PM
To be fair, they also spend some of the money on important wlefare causes.

(http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthread.php?506795-Did-Trump-just-open-the-door-for-cutting-US-taxpayers-aid-to-Israel&p=6404332&viewfull=1#post6404332)Israeli government offers women aged 20 to 33 free abortions (http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthread.php?530620-New-York-passes-bill-allowing-abortions-up-to-birth-for-any-reason&p=6739667&viewfull=1#post6739667)
Jan 7, 2014 -The 2014 “health basket” of medical services and medications approved by Israel’s cabinet Sunday (Jan. 5) includes free abortions for Israeli women aged 20 to 33, regardless of the circumstances.

NorthCarolinaLiberty
01-28-2019, 06:49 PM
“It is run by students who are all volunteers,”


Volunteers, my ass. I'd bet they are compensated somehow.

This has been going on a long time. Check this USA Today article from 5 years ago:





Israel to pay students to defend it online

JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel is looking to hire university students to post pro-Israel messages on social media networks — without needing to identify themselves as government-linked, officials said Wednesday.

The Israeli prime minister's office said in a statement that students on Israeli university campuses would receive full or partial scholarships to combat anti-Semitism and calls to boycott Israel online. It said students' messages would parallel statements by government officials.

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An Israeli official said Wednesday that scholarship recipients would be free to decide whether or not to identify themselves as part of the program, which would begin within months.

"Everyone who believes in the cause, and wants to join, can join," he told The Associated Press. He said the office was looking to budget $778,000 for the project, and that the national Israeli student association would select participants from a pool of applicants.


http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2013/08/14/israel-students-social-media/2651715/

NorthCarolinaLiberty
01-28-2019, 06:56 PM
There is a banned account on here named MaybeMaybeNot. (http://www.ronpaulforums.com/member.php?59938-maybemaybenot)

Check his threads and posts. He was 100% trolling, and I'm almost 100% sure he was with one of these groups.

He also had a fake sock account that he acknowledge to me in public. The sock account started by pretending to do fake meet-ups with Florida Ron Paul supporters in 2008. The guy was totally full of prunes.

Mach
01-28-2019, 08:32 PM
All funded by the billions we give them every year..... what better way to propagandize, than with others money.

Stratovarious
01-28-2019, 08:47 PM
To be fair, they also spend some of the money on important wlefare causes.

Israeli government offers women aged 20 to 33 free abortions (http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthread.php?530620-New-York-passes-bill-allowing-abortions-up-to-birth-for-any-reason&p=6739667&viewfull=1#post6739667)
Jan 7, 2014 -The 2014 “health basket” of medical services and medications approved by Israel’s cabinet Sunday (Jan. 5) includes free abortions for Israeli women aged 20 to 33, regardless of the circumstances.
''Men are inherently evil we will prevent them from murdering children,
we believe that murdering children is better left to women.
We also stand by our age discrimination policy, if you are under 20 or over 33 you
can kiss our ###, we don't recognize you as bona fide humans.

Anti Globalist
01-28-2019, 08:51 PM
End foreign aid to Israel and every other country we give money to.