In a meeting dedicated to harnessing pro-Israel media energy on Friday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu alluded to a cohort of Israel’s influencers. “We have to fight back. How do we fight back? Our influencers. I think you should also talk to them if you have a chance, to that community, they are very important.”
Being paid by Israel to post on social media is also very lucrative. According to previously unreported recent documents, these influencers are likely being paid around $7,000 per post on social media such as Tik Tok and Instagram on behalf of Israel.
Bridges Partners, a firm working for the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs, sent a series of invoices for its “Influencer Campaign” to Havas Media Group Germany, an international media group working for Israel. The invoices detailed a sum of $900,000, starting in June and slated to end in November, for a cohort of 14-18 influencers to create content.
How much you want to bet this won’t get added into Westerners’ list of “countries that use paid shills for propaganda?” That’s still only China. Ask them with no other context and watch as they conveniently miss Israel. Show them this article and watch them try to implicate China anyway and how they “pretend to be Israelis to further antisemitism.”
And north Korea.
And russia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Research_Agency
this is like the only instance ever, was a business and not affiliated with the russian government, US republicans paid for an ad campaign in 2015 and it got completely shut down 2 years ago. And yet the phantasm of the russian bot that is spamming on lemmy lives on in the lore of libs.
China good tho