[michaeljhg]

Is there a country that doesn't do this?

[Maxatar]

I don't know of any government department in Canada, Mexico, the UK, France, Germany, Australia that target U.S. law makers with fake social media accounts.

Do you know of any? Can you cite them?

[cooper_ganglia]

I don't know of them, that's why I'm sure it's happening. I'd assume that the US is doing this to our allied nations, too.

[NoMoreNicksLeft]

I have a question of my own. Is there another country whose citizens are regularly elected to Congress? Dual citizens are not barred from holding office in Congress, and certainly there are more than a few English Americans and French Americans who hold citizens in both respective countries, but I have never heard of any winning office (or even running, for that matter).

[some-guy]

Not the point here: Israel is our "greatest ally" and the target is our lawmakers.

[tptacek]

I think you would be surprised by the list of countries the US IC believes are our most important intelligence "adversaries"; the list includes many of our allies.

[jjtheblunt]

"greatest ally" according to whose claim? that reads like propaganda, just plain nonsense. perhaps a contender for greatest external funding liability? not sure how the hard data would rank such numerically.

[rcpt]

As far as I can tell "greatest ally" is just something these accounts say.

Jordan seems to be a much stronger friend to us in the region.

[silisili]

Yeah, AIPAC really opened my eyes to how deep the ties go. They spend tons of money to put their preferred lawmakers in place, and openly brag on Twitter about how much they spend and their extremely successful track record. It just -feels- like it should be illegal, seeing as it's a foreign country.

[kergonath]

So, enlighten us: is there? Any example of this sort of things between allies? Or is this just an extreme case of both-sides?

Spying and keeping tabs on your friends is one thing. Influence campaigns among close allies are generally not the way it works.

[gmarx]

before the US entered WWII the british had an office of propaganda with offices in New York that was dedicated to getting the US to enter the war.

[seydor]

It's not common at all in liberal countries. Perhaps azerbaijan or china do it

[neves]

USA censor Social Networks that don't allow them to do it.