Revealed: the hacking and disinformation team meddling in elections - A team of Israeli contractors who claim to have manipulated more than 30 elections around the world using hacking, sabotage and automated disinformation on social media has been exposed in a new investigation.

raven9 · 2023-02-15T14:04:22+00:00

I'd bet every time they said it was China, Russia, Iran or N. korea it was really Israeli troll farms and bots. Israel has been working on that kind of shit for decades. They had swarms of denial of service attack bots that were millions strong 20 years ago.

neolib · 2023-02-15T13:47:43+00:00

The unit is run by Tal Hanan, a 50-year-old former Israeli special forces operative who now works privately using the pseudonym “Jorge”, and appears to have been working under the radar in elections in various countries for more than two decades.

The consortium of journalists that investigated Team Jorge includes reporters from 30 outlets including Le Monde, Der Spiegel and El País. The project, part of a wider investigation into the disinformation industry, has been coordinated by Forbidden Stories, a French nonprofit whose mission is to pursue the work of assassinated, threatened or jailed reporters.

The Guardian's series page: https://www.theguardian.com/world/series/disinfo-black-ops

‘Aims’: the software for hire that can control 30,000 fake online profiles

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/feb/15/aims-software-avatars-team-jorge-disinformation-fake-profiles

The Israelis Destabilizing Democracy and Disrupting Elections Worldwide

https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/security-aviation/2022-11-16/ty-article-static-ext/the-israelis-destabilizing-democracy-and-disrupting-elections-worldwide/00000186-461e-d80f-abff-6e9e08b10000

"Team Jorge": In the heart of a global disinformation machine

https://forbiddenstories.org/story-killers/team-jorge-disinformation/

UPD List of the articles: https://forbiddenstories.org/kiosk/story-killers/

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