Exposed: Israel's Multi-Million Dollar Propaganda Campaign

[RainWalker]

Sorry but could only post part of the title due to the length.

There's a great list of sources for this article at the bottom of it's webpage. The article is longer than what I'm copying and pasting here. This is a really good article in my opinion.

Exposed: Israel’s Multi-Million Dollar Propaganda Campaign to Shape Western Opinion on Gaza Conflict

https://medium.com/@thehomelessromanticpodcast/exposed-israels-multi-million-dollar-propaganda-campaign-to-shape-western-opinion-on-gaza-5d12f26d92d1]

The Israeli government has reportedly spent millions of dollars on social media propaganda ads targeting Western nations. According to a data analysis carried out by Politico, the Israeli government launched a vast propaganda campaign strategically aimed at Western nations, in a concentrated effort to shape international public opinion as it continues to wage a brutal war on the besieged Gaza Strip.. The campaign is being executed across several platforms, including Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube, and involves the dissemination of emotionally charged and graphic advertisements. Journalist Sophia Smith, in a thread on Twitter, noted that the Israeli government spent close to $7.1 million solely on YouTube ads. Notably, a sum of $1.1 million was allocated to targeting the United Kingdom alone.

The Israeli government’s attempt to win the online information war is part of a growing trend of governments around the world moving aggressively online in order to shape their image, especially during times of crisis. PR campaigns in and around wars are nothing new. But paying for online advertising targeted at specific countries and demographics is now one of governments’ main tools to get their messages in front of more eyeballs.


However, the spread of misinformation and propaganda related to the Israel-Gaza conflict on social media platforms such as Twitter, Facebook, and TikTok has made it difficult for people to discern fact from fiction and can shape how people view the conflict. Some of the misinformation includes fake videos and images that are years old or taken from other conflict zones. The rise in AI is making it worse, and the trust in traditional news sources has declined. False or misleading videos have gone viral faster than fact-checkers can debunk them or the platforms can remove them in keeping with company policies.

The Israeli government’s propaganda campaign has been criticized for containing brutal and emotional imagery of the deadly militant violence in Israel. Some of the ads contain gruesome imagery or graphic depictions of physical trauma, which violates Google’s stringent policies against the promotion of ads containing violent language, gruesome imagery, or graphic depictions of physical trauma. Despite this, a continuous cycle of uploading and activation of such graphic ads was observed. One recurring ad, for example, disturbingly claimed to depict the autopsy of an Israeli child burned alive. The campaigns unambiguously labelled Hamas as a “vicious terrorist”.

[Mosby]

1. This article is pro Hamas propaganda

Written by an anonymous person, uses loaded language, pretends to be a news report of some sort.

[RainWalker]

4. All the sources are cited at the bottom of the article

And include Politico, NYT, Vox, and Washington Post.

[lapucelle]

7. Yes....including Doha News... straight from Qatar.

https://dohanews.co/

[RainWalker]

10. Would you like to see an example

Of what this article speaks of?

Read the community notes attached in the last picture on this tweet from Netanyahu's official spokesperson to the Arab world.

[lapucelle]

11. No thanks. The fact that the information is Qatari sourced says it all.

Giant pictures of random stuff fails to impress every time.

[RainWalker]

12. Ok then

Have a great Sunday.

Oh and Doha News was started by 2 American progressives who live in Qatar and are critical of the Qatari government.

[lapucelle]

8. The main source is Doha News from Qatar.

[RainWalker]

9. NYT is main source

They're cited more in the article.

Want to see exactly what this article is talking about? I can show you.

This is Ofir Gendleman who's Netanyahu's official spokesperson of Israel to the Arab world.
Look at the "community notes" attached to his tweet.

[lapucelle]

13. Did you read the NYT article your source links to? I did.

The article calls out Hamas for its propaganda efforts on social media, not Israel.

Hamas has adroitly exploited social media to promote its cause the way Al Qaeda and the Islamic State once did. It used the Telegram app, which is largely unfiltered, as a conduit to push celebratory and graphic images of its incursion from Gaza into broader circulation on social networks that have barred terrorist organizations.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/13/business/israel-hamas-misinformation-social-media-x.html

[RainWalker]

14. I did

Did you see what Israeli ambassador Gilad Erdwan said on CNN claiming "there's no humanitarian crisis in Gaza"? John Oliver even featured that nice little piece of propaganda on his show.

[lapucelle]

15. "Quick, look over there!" is not an effective rhetorical strategy.

[RainWalker]

16. Ok.

Have a good day.

[elleng]

2. *The Israeli government's attempt to win the online information war is part of a growing

trend of governments around the world moving aggressively online in order to shape their image, especially during times of crisis.'>>>

[David__77]

3. One person's "propaganda" is another person's "public relations". Interesting how that works.

[Abnredleg]

5. Every Country and Every Major Corporation does this

It just part and parcel of living in the Internet age. Does make it difficult to untangle complicated issues, however.

[RainWalker]

6. Russia does come to mind

And we all know about that

[LexVegas]

17. Hmm....Hamas seems to get free propaganda.

[RainWalker]

18. The article is about Israel's use of propaganda

Aimed at the West and used on social media. I posted a couple examples in the replies so please be sure to check them out.

I hope you have a great Monday 😊

[ismnotwasm]

19. Hamas *Are* vicious terrorists,

Jesus fucking Christ. It’s perfectly legitimate to criticize the Israeli government, without implying that Hamas is misunderstood. They are terrorists. Their goal is terror. They hate Israel. They want it to be destroyed.

Hamas are not the good guys. They don’t want to be.

[RainWalker]

22. Thank you

[Tickle]

20. Hamas is a vicious

oppressor's for the Palestine people and the Israelites. Period.

[RainWalker]

21. Certainly so

That doesn't mean Israel is above criticism however and this article is about Israel using propaganda, a perfect example of which can be seen below with the Ambassador of Israel to the UN going on CNN claiming there's "no humanitarian crisis in Gaza".