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Israel 'organised disinfo campaign' for US support on Gaza war
Israel organised a large-scale campaign involving fake websites and social media accounts to target US progressives, a new report has revealed.
Israel organised a large-scale campaign which used fake news and disinformation to target progressive activists and Black members of Congress in the US and Canada amid the Gaza war, Haaretz and The New York Times reported. An investigation by the Israeli OSINT research group FakeReporter revealed that the campaign used fake websites and social media posts to promote anti-Palestinian, Islamophobic and pro-Israeli content, as well as false information about antisemitism at US universities. Three fake "news websites" which took reports from official media were set up and then associated with Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram accounts, which acquired tens of thousands of followers.
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