• Anarcho-Bolshevik@lemmygrad.ml
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    1 year ago

    Although I’ve joked that Benjamin Netanyahu must be directly managing all of these accounts, I feel like a bot network would be unnecessary because there are likely enough dullards on the Internet to unwittingly do the neocolonists’ PR work for them.

    That said, I can’t dismiss the bot network idea out of hand. Can you show me evidence for it?

    • TheLastHero [none/use name]@hexbear.net
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      1 year ago

      I’m not up to date on IDF operations but for a government agency building a botnet would be so cheap and simple (like cheaper than printing posters cheap) I can’t imagine that they wouldn’t do it. I found this without much looking. Granted this guy is a private contractor but former IDF. Israel famously has well funded and developed cyberwarfare and propaganda/“PR” capabilities too, so I bet social media manipulation would be wrapped in one of those arms.