The Israeli government has signed contracts worth millions of dollars in recent months to rehabilitate Israel’s standing in American public opinion, both online and offline.
Amid a sharp drop in support from the conservative right, Israel has hired firms to conduct not just “hasbara [public diplomacy] campaigns” but also campaigns targeting millions of Christian churchgoers, bot networks to amplify pro-Israel messages online, and efforts to influence both search results and the responses given by popular AI services like ChatGPT.
With risk of permaban, I am going to be very blunt here, anyway: I really don’t like Israel. There. I said it. Come at me, bots.
This isn’t reddit. It’s not edgy to say that here.
That’s a very prevalent and public opinion on here. I’m not going to blanket say that all Israelis are bad. I live in the US, so while we’re not actively committing a genocide, I live in a place with a pretty bad rap, so I empathize with the Israelis not complicit in genocide.
That said, fuck Israel.