• eldavi@lemmy.ml
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    23 days ago

    i thought the popular consensus was the opposite – russian/chinese bots pushing unpopular narratives.

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      23 days ago

      I don’t think disliking Israel is exactly an ‘unpopular narrative’ (I dislike this turn of newspaperman newspeak) especially in places outside of international-community-1international-community-2 where the consequences of US-sponsored meddling are the everyday reality. And if you don’t think Israel has a cyber warfare capability noted for making many tech startup founders like those of Waze and Wix, or that the American Internet, the baseline for all of this, was a Cold War military-intelligence project, I don’t know what to tell you. This sort of revolving door special relationship is much scarier than the RuZZian/Chinese/Iranian hackers boogeyman that western media pulls out every time they do half as much as we do. Think the Kash Patel photos incident.

      “We’ve got a lot of killers. What do you think, our country’s so innocent?”

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        18 days ago

        I don’t think disliking Israel is exactly an ‘unpopular narrative’

        agreed and even isreal knows it and are leveraging it to keep getting what they want.