[heyheyhouhou]

It is well known that Israel uses botnets and user-controlled fake accounts to steer public opinion in social media.

Reddit, youtube, instagram and lots of media outlets are flooded with pro-israeli propaganda or massive downvoting to any critizism against Israel. Also here in hacker news...

[Toaster-King]

Do you have any evidence that Israeli-controlled accounts were operating on Twitch (a video-game livestreaming company), and that this required an entire country-level IP block after october 7th?

[WesolyKubeczek]

Here on HN I tend to see the opposite: lots of staunch anti-israelism, sometimes bordering on plain old antisemitism, along with these statements like yours. I have showdead and showflagged enabled, yet I don’t see the flood of propaganda you keep talking about.

[covercash]

I imagine @dang is pretty on top of clapping antisemitic comments on this platform, he’s not one to mess around.

I worry that softening the definition of antisemitism by saying things border on it is ultimately weakening the severity of the accusation long term. Like bigot and pedo, antisemite will soon be relegated to just another empty accusation before long.

[wslh]

> It is well known that Israel...

It is well known that any cybersecurity aware country... here I point to some papers/articles [1][2][3] just as a reference of the modus operandi, not to isolate a particular country.

[1] https://arxiv.org/pdf/1507.07109

[2] https://osf.io/preprints/socarxiv/gf7jb/download

[3] https://www.foi.se/download/18.6b6fc4521690ffa2022169/155076...

[Hikikomori]

Hey now, the ones on hackernews probably do it for free on their own time.

[dzhiurgis]

On company time