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>>ilamon+(OP)
Israel set up troll farms years ago to attack, debate, downvote and report opposing content. It's the front channel.

https://electronicintifada.net/content/inside-israels-millio...

>>Sporkt+N61
Saying Israel set this up is quite misleading. This group is no more affiliated with Israel than Alex Jones is affiliated with the U.S.

This is a grassroots organization doing this and in fact its funding and support mostly comes from Americans, such as casino magnate Sheldon Adelson and the Israeli-American Council.

>>Kranar+Qq1
Your rhetorical point about Alex Jones is contradicted within your own post. Alex Jones does not receive grant funding from the US government, but this group does receive a portion of its funding from the Israeli government.

James Bamford has written at least 3 good articles about Israeli government influence of US civil society (social media) and elections (the leak of the DNC hack materials), all in the last year or so, at The Nation: https://www.thenation.com/authors/james-bamford/

And until extremely recently, the IDF and associated arms of the state have been engaging in even more deceptive actions, such as creating sock-puppet accounts to bolster support for government policy, targeting Israelis themselves: https://www.timesofisrael.com/idf-admits-psychological-warfa...

It's impossible to be certain of anything related to these highly unaccountable and secret operations, but the "grain" of truth runs very much in the direction of Israeli state interference, with quite wide scope -- but effectiveness unknown.

>>dundar+Sx1
act.il has never received any government funding. It was an entirely grassroots organization with no affiliation to the Israeli government.

Please stop spreading misinformation.

>>Kranar+EB1
You are wrong. It is part of a campaign called 4il which is supported and spearheaded by the staffed by the Israeli Strategic Affairs Ministry. Act.il's is staffed by former intelligence officers and its founder and CEO is former intelligence officer Yarden Ben Yosef who said that "both Israels military and the Shin Bet security service were making specific requests from Act.il for its help in getting violent anti-Israel videos removed from Facebook and other platforms." before walking the statement back. If you call that no affiliation, then you're spreading misinformation.

https://archive.is/ERHPN#selection-2055.97-2055.288 https://archive.is/BR10K

>>Sporkt+DT2
I'm wrong about what? A specific claim was made that act.il receives funding from the Israeli government and that is simply false. Nothing you've presented in any of your posts indicates in anyway whatsoever that the Israeli government has funded act.il

The very link you present even states that the army and Shin Bet do not request help from act.il.

It's in the very next sentence from the one you chose to highlight.

>>Kranar+q74
You obviously didn't read the original source: "Watchdog The Seventh Eye revealed that Israel’s Ministry of Strategic Affairs spent almost $2 million on one propaganda campaign in 2017 – part of which was allocated to Act.IL."

And it links to an article at https://www.972mag.com/the-israeli-government-is-paying-for-... "Another large sum (from the Israeli Ministry of Strategic Affairs), around NIS 2 million ($570,000), was budgeted for building the Act.il website and producing multi-media content for it."

You're strangely confident that act.il getting government funding is "simply false" when you're simply wrong.

So explain just how the post was misleading.