Have you ever read polling data that claims the vast majority of Americans oppose Israel’s continued genocide in Gaza and thought it must surely be mistaken, because what you see is overwhelming support online? Have you read reports about Israeli leadership panicking because of dropping support for Israel in the U.S., but all you see is overwhelming support? There’s a reason why the facts don’t line up with your online experience. Israel owns the Internet, and here’s how they’ve done it.
The man who co-founded one of the world’s most sophisticated surveillance companies also visited Jeffrey Epstein’s apartment more than thirty times. Last week, that same company’s general counsel accidentally posted their live surveillance dashboard on LinkedIn, showing a Czech phone being monitored in real time. The post was deleted. The story disappeared in a news cycle (and barely made it there at all).
Yes, it was hilarious that a tech overlord accidentally showed the entire world how they illegally listen in to our phone calls, in one of the most incredible blunders of OPSEC I’ve seen in a while. But that’s beside the point.
If you’ve spent any time on social media since October 7, 2023, you’ve probably noticed something that doesn’t add up. Global polling consistently shows Israel’s international favorability at historic lows, cratering among young people in Europe and America, and catastrophically low across the Global South. Yet open any comment section, scroll any feed, engage any algorithm, and the overwhelming sentiment you encounter trends pro-Israel. Critics get swarmed. Anti-Israeli content vanishes. The same talking points appear in reply after reply from accounts you’ve never seen before.
You’re not imagining it. You’re not biased. You’re being managed.
What follows is not a conspiracy theory. Every single fact in this article is documented in leaked internal data, in FARA filings, in congressional testimony, in whistleblower disclosures, and in the Committee to Protect Journalists’ own records. These are stories that should have dominated global headlines. Most of them ran for a single news cycle and disappeared. Ask yourself why.
Ehud Barak, Jeffrey Epstein, and the Surveillance Company That Spied on Itself
Former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak visited Jeffrey Epstein’s Manhattan townhouse more than thirty times. This is documented. It is not disputed. What gets less attention is what Barak did after Epstein’s arrest and death: he co-founded Paragon Solutions, an Israeli spyware company whose flagship product, Graphite, can silently compromise any smartphone on earth without the target clicking a single link.
Paragon was founded in 2019 by Barak alongside Ehud Schneorson, former commander of Unit 8200, Israel’s military intelligence corps. The company marketed itself as the ethical alternative to NSO Group’s Pegasus spyware, which had become globally infamous for targeting journalists and dissidents. Paragon promised it only sold to vetted democracies. It promised lawful intercept only. It promised its tools wouldn’t be misused.
I’m going to translate for boomers in the parentheses.
In January 2025, WhatsApp notified over ninety users, journalists, and civil society workers that they had been targeted with Paragon’s Graphite spyware (a popular private messaging app company told a bunch of reporters that bad guys had been reading their texts). The Citizen Lab at the University of Toronto subsequently confirmed forensic evidence that two European journalists had been fully compromised via a zero-click iMessage attack (fancy Canuck computer people proved that two reporters got hacked just by receiving a message, like getting robbed through your mail slot). No links clicked. (They didn’t fall for anything.) No files downloaded. (They didn’t do anything wrong.) The phone was silently owned. (Someone was just...in there). Italy’s parliamentary oversight committee confirmed their own government used Graphite against humanitarian aid workers running migrant rescue operations in the Mediterranean (Italy admitted it spied on the people rescuing drowning refugees, which is not a great look).
Then, three weeks ago, Paragon’s general counsel posted a photo to LinkedIn from the company’s offices. In the background, visible to anyone who looked, was the Graphite surveillance dashboard showing a Czech phone number labeled “Valentina,” active interception logs dated the previous day, and real-time monitoring of encrypted applications (this private company was spying on someone, like no big deal). A senior researcher at the University of Toronto called it an epic OPSEC (operational security) failure. The world’s most sophisticated surveillance company had accidentally livestreamed its own operations to LinkedIn.
The post was deleted. The story ran for forty-eight hours. And the man who co-founded this company spent years visiting the apartment of a convicted sex trafficker with documented ties to global intelligence networks.
Now let’s talk about your social media feed.
Fact 1: The Israeli Government Created a Fake Bot Army to Manipulate American Politicians
In October 2023, Israel’s Ministry of Diaspora Affairs allocated two million dollars to a Tel Aviv political marketing firm called STOIC. The assignment: create hundreds of fake American social media accounts and use them to manufacture the appearance of widespread American support for Israel among US lawmakers.
The accounts were designed to look like real American citizens, students, concerned constituents, and community members. They targeted specific legislators, including House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, Georgia Senator Raphael Warnock, and New York Representative Ritchie Torres. The posts were written by ChatGPT, and OpenAI later confirmed this. The campaign created fake news websites called Non-Agenda and UnFold Magazine that reprinted pro-Israel content from the Wall Street Journal and Jerusalem Post, giving the manufactured accounts credible-looking sources to share.
The Israeli government’s connection to this operation was verified by four current and former members of the Ministry of Diaspora Affairs, confirmed by document review, and reported jointly by the New York Times and the Israeli watchdog group FakeReporter. It was not a theory. It was a documented foreign influence operation targeting American democratic processes by one of America’s closest allies.
When Russia ran social media influence operations targeting American lawmakers in 2016, the United States responded with years of congressional hearings, a special counsel investigation, criminal indictments, and a cultural panic that reshaped American politics. When Israel ran a documented, government-funded, AI-generated social media influence operation targeting American lawmakers in 2023, the story ran for a week and vanished. No hearings. No special counsel. No indictments. No panic.
The participants in Israel’s operation were internally described as “digital soldiers” and “warriors for Israel.” That is the language of a military information operation applied to American domestic politics by a foreign government. And Washington shrugged.
There was also a companion operation worth noting. The Israeli government contracted SKDK, a prominent Democratic Party-linked public relations firm, for $600,000 to run what internal documents described as a “flood the zone” program across Instagram, TikTok, LinkedIn, and YouTube. The goal was to push pro-Israel messaging through automated amplification, gaming platform algorithms by boosting posts within seconds of publication to trigger recommendation systems. The contract was disclosed in FARA filings. It generated almost no coverage.
Fact 2: A Unit 8200 Veteran Is Running Content Policy at the World’s Largest Social Network
Meta, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram, and platforms used by three billion people, has a Chief Information Security Officer named Guy Rosen. Rosen is a veteran of Unit 8200, the IDF’s elite signals intelligence and cyber warfare corps (the Israeli Defense Force’s computer hacking and eavesdropping, wire-tapping wing), whose alumni founded or co-founded Check Point, CyberArk, SentinelOne, Paragon, and dozens of other cybersecurity companies. Rosen has direct decision-making authority over which content is permitted on Meta’s platforms. He oversees the systems that determine what you see, what gets removed, and what gets algorithmically buried.
Under his oversight, here is what the internal data shows: since October 7, 2023, Meta has complied with 94% of content removal requests issued by the Israeli government. Ninety-four percent. This figure comes from internal Meta data leaked by whistleblowers and published by Drop Site News. It was subsequently confirmed and reported by the Business and Human Rights Resource Centre.
For context: most governments receive compliance rates significantly lower than this, and those governments direct their censorship requests at their own citizens. Brazil’s requests target Brazilian content 95% of the time. Malaysia’s requests target Malaysian content 63% of the time. Israel’s requests target Israeli users 1.3% of the time. The other 98.7% target users in other countries, primarily in Arab and Muslim-majority nations, but extending across sixty countries worldwide.
The result of this 94% compliance rate: over 90,000 posts immediately removed, and tens of millions more suppressed or actioned through automated systems. Human Rights Watch documented over 1,050 cases of Palestinian content removal in October and November 2023 alone. Of those, 1,049 involved peaceful pro-Palestinian expression. One case involved pro-Israel content.
By the way, as an aside, the official at Israel's National Cyber Directorate - the agency submitting those censorship requests to Meta - was arrested in a Nevada sting operation in August 2025 for soliciting a minor online. He posted bail, flew home to Israel, and won’t be extradited because Israel serves as a metaphoric “base” in a game of international pedophile freeze-tag, refusing to extradite any Jews who have been indicted for pedophilia or child molestation who flee to Israel.
Additionally, leaked documents reveal that Israeli government takedown requests were given a special exception. Rather than the standard process requiring human moderators to review government requests, Israeli requests were routed directly to automated AI systems for faster processing. The algorithm handling Israeli government censorship requests was set to a lower confidence threshold than standard moderation, meaning content could be removed even when the system was highly uncertain it violated any rule.
Meanwhile, on the other side of the ledger, Arabic-language content had its automated moderation confidence threshold lowered from 80% to 25%, meaning Arabic posts could be flagged for removal even when the algorithm was largely uncertain they violated anything.
Are you starting to understand why you see so much pro-Israel content? This is the architecture of your social media feed.
Fact 3: They Are Literally Poisoning the AI
Brad Parscale managed Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign and his 2020 re-election effort. He is one of the most sophisticated digital political operatives in American history. In 2024, the Israeli government awarded his firm, Clock Tower X LLC, a $6 million contract (I’ve previously written about Parscale, because he’s the Salem Radio executive pushing pro-Israel content over the radio).
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The contract’s stated goals, as reflected in FARA filings, are worth careful reading. Clock Tower is tasked with disseminating pro-Israel messaging to Generation Z audiences across TikTok, Instagram, YouTube, and other platforms, aiming for a minimum of 50 million monthly impressions. But buried in the contract documentation is something more structurally alarming: Clock Tower is specifically contracted to influence how artificial intelligence tools, including ChatGPT, respond to questions about Israel and Palestine.
The mechanism is not a backdoor into OpenAI’s systems. It is more elegant and more durable than that. AI language models learn by ingesting vast quantities of publicly available text from the internet. If you systematically flood the internet with pro-Israel content, articles, blog posts, social media posts, news aggregators, commentary, the models that train on that content learn a pro-Israel frame as baseline. When someone later asks an AI chatbot a question about Israeli policy, the model’s answer reflects the information environment it was trained on. Seed the environment, shape the answer.
Clock Tower is also contracted to use predictive search engine optimization tools, software that reverse-engineers Google and Bing’s ranking algorithms, to ensure pro-Israel narratives appear higher in search results, pushing critical perspectives down the rankings where fewer people will find them.
Let me explain this rabbit hole quickly: The PROMIS scandal, from the 1980s, involved American and Israeli intelligence agencies embedding hidden access into software sold to foreign governments, giving them visibility into systems those governments believed were private. The man at the center of that controversy, who provided that technology to these governments, was Robert Maxwell, the Mossad free-lance spy and father to Gislaine Maxwell, the paramour and partner of Jeffrey Epstein. This is the modern version of that, but it doesn’t need a backdoor. If you control the information the systems learn from, you control the systems. You don’t hack the AI. You teach it what you want it to know.
Netanyahu told a gathering of Israeli influencers last week (when he told the American Jews to go fight Americans) that social media is now “the most important” front in Israel’s efforts. “You can’t fight today with swords,” he said. “The most important weapons are social media.” A six-million-dollar contract with Trump’s former campaign manager to train AI chatbots is what that looks like in practice.
Fact 4: They Made Criticism Legally Unspeakable
In July 2024, Meta introduced a new content policy. The term “Zionist,” Meta announced, would henceforth be treated as a proxy for antisemitism, a slur against Jewish and Israeli people. Criticism of Zionism would be moderated accordingly. Within months, TikTok and Amazon adopted similar policies.
The sleight of hand here is sophisticated. Zionism is a political ideology. It has a defined historical origin, a specific political program, and a long tradition of criticism, including Jewish criticism. Orthodox Jewish communities have historically opposed Zionism on theological grounds for over a century. Reform Jewish intellectuals have criticized it. Secular Jewish thinkers across the political spectrum have engaged it as exactly what it is: a political movement subject to political analysis and disagreement.
To define criticism of a political ideology as hatred of an ethnic or religious group is definitional capture, the reclassification of a political debate as a hate crime. It is precisely the mechanism used to shut down debate in institutional settings, which your readers already recognize from evangelical institutional capture. The effect is to place Israeli government policy structurally beyond criticism on the platforms that host the majority of global public discourse. Not through argument. Not through persuasion. Through policy.
Combined with the 94% compliance rate on Israeli censorship requests, the lowered Arabic moderation threshold, and the AI content seeding operation, you now have a system that simultaneously amplifies pro-Israel content, suppresses critical content, removes content on Israeli government request at a 94% clip, and makes certain categories of criticism technically unspeakable by platform policy. The playing field is not tilted. It has been architecturally redesigned.
Fact Five: When the Digital Suppression Fails, There Is Always the Legitimisation Cell
Everything described above, the bot armies, the platform capture, the AI poisoning, the definitional warfare, serves a function beyond merely shaping public opinion. It serves to prevent documentation of what is happening on the ground. And when documentation persists despite those efforts, there is a final instrument.
The IDF operates a unit called the Legitimisation Cell. This is not a theory. It was reported by +972 Magazine, an independent Israeli outlet, in August 2025, and subsequently confirmed and detailed by France 24, the Committee to Protect Journalists, and Reporters Without Borders. The Legitimisation Cell’s function is to scour the professional and personal histories of Palestinian journalists, living and dead, for any association with Hamas, however tenuous, in order to provide retroactive justification for killing them.
The pattern documented by investigative reporters is consistent: an article appears on a website close to the Israeli government claiming a journalist has Hamas ties. The claim circulates through pro-Israel social media accounts, amplified by the same bot networks and compliant platform infrastructure described above. Then, weeks or months later, the journalist is killed in a drone strike. The IDF points to the earlier reporting as justification. The digital and kinetic operations are not separate tracks. They are a single integrated system.
THIS IS EXACTLY WHY - I believe, but cannot prove - TUCKER REFUSED TO TRAVEL TO THE EMBASSY WITHOUT A CHAPERONE. Israeli government officials have labeled him an antisemite and an enemy of Israel. It would have been irresponsible for his private security to let him travel unaccompanied by embassy personnel. If the IFD were going to gun him down, blow up his vehicle, or have him die in an “accident,” then an embassy tag-along would have been an assurance of his safety. Without that, traveling there would have been unwise.
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