Israel targeted more than 120 US lawmakers in disinformation campaign

The lawmakers were mostly Democrats, and the campaign involved pro-Israeli military posts on their accounts over the past 7 months.

At least 128 members of Congress were targeted by an Israeli-linked operation to spread pro-Israel military content amid the ongoing war in the Gaza Strip, according to data shared from an Israeli disinformation watchdog group.

The existence of an influence campaign targeted at lawmakers was first made public in March. In it, around 600 fake profiles unleashed more than 2,000 coordinated comments per week backing Israel’s military actions, slamming Palestinian rights groups and dismissing claims of human rights abuses.

The New York Times reported Wednesday that the operation was backed by the Israeli government, citing multiple unnamed Israeli officials, but the exact number of politicians targeted was not previously disclosed.

The posts were aimed at the social media accounts of at least 128 U.S. lawmakers, according to data from FakeReporter, the group that first exposed the network.

The size of the list reveals the influence operators blanketed much of Congress with their campaign. At the same time it also shows targeting of certain groups — the names skew heavily towards the House rather than the Senate, and the targets were predominantly Democratic lawmakers.

The commenters in the disinformation network posed as American social media users and routinely amplified pro-Israel messaging by sharing links to fake news outlets.

According to The New York Times, Israel’s Ministry of Diaspora Affairs spent $2 million on the campaign and hired Israeli political marketing group STOIC to carry it out. FakeReporter hadn’t been able to confirm the perpetrators behind the pro-Israel comment clusters, but Meta last week published a separate report alleging that STOIC was behind the disinformation campaign and announcing that it had banned the company from its social media platforms.

Israeli government was behind the campaign.

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