I just noticed that there are quite a few users on Reddit from r/WorldNews who are defending Israel unequivocally and when I checked some of the users they seemed to be engaging on topics only about Israel/Palestine and they seem to be extremely active, so I have checked the Internet and there are even some older BBC article and Reddit posts discussing exactly this issue: https://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-news-from-elsewhere-23695896
There are. In the first week of the attacks, the Israel Times had a blog post about Act 2 of the war. Here’s the blog post: https://blogs.timesofisrael.com/our-role-in-act-2-of-the-war/
My country’s news outlet even has a section that informs us about the disinformation campaigns going on on both sides and addressing/correcting what’s probably the truth.
Edit: they’re on Lemmy too.
I remember back when r/conspiracy blamed everything to the left of the John Birch Society on Mossad, because they liked exchanging “Jewish” with “Israeli” to look less like raging anti-semites.
But in reality… Mossad does exist. Duh. Foreign intelligence and propaganda campaigns are universal.
Yeah the thing about Mossad is that they’re on par with the CIA in ambition and skill and unfortunately they also happen to be Jewish. One side is going to look at them because CIA-like, the other is going to look at them because Jewish.
Frankly I think they’re probably trying to influence things some, but from what I hear they’re more of the assassin type. I think a lot of people have a lot of interest in the United States heavily funding Israel and ignoring Ukraine. And the people who benefit from us not throwing massive amounts of weapons at Israel tend to suck at influencing us in these ways
What country/news outlet is that? This should be more common
Have you noticed specific instances on lemmy?
Belgium’s VRT. I’ve seen other countries’ outlets starting to do it too.
I find it kinda interesting that the few places that pro-israel bots aren’t on, across the lemmy servers at least, is the leftist servers. But yeah, they are all over .world, .ee, etc.
The link says nothing about bots.
You are making this sound more mysterious than it is.
The benign terminology in this blog article is: “act 2” is the ground offensive, the “act 1” was Hamas’ attacks on Oct 7. There’s also no mention of “act 3”.
Did you read the article? It’s suggesting Israeli citizens step into conversations and defend Israel. No need for bots, there are people to do it.
I did, and it says things, but not the things that the original commenter said, nor implied. But apparently calling out misinformation is not welcome here.
They didn’t say anything about bots? Not sure what you’re trying to call out.
Seems likely. I’ve been an internet leftist for a long time now and that sub has always been disinterested in the left, but the level of outright hostility recently is extreme.
Bro what are you talking about, Reddit has always been pretty much leftist and even more so with popular subs like politics or world news.
Leftism is not counterculture/ anti system as much as people here like to think. Face it. It is mainstream and THE system.
I want some insight into your mind and how you think leftism is mainstream. First, can you define leftism in a way that matches the dictionary, and then can you explain how it isn’t counterculture
Liberalism is not leftist.
After seeing what the modern American leftist is, yeah, I miss the liberals.
What is “the modern American leftist”, specifically?
progressive
Leftists have always been “progressive”.
No, they used to be mostly liberal
OK sure if you’ve decided to define leftism as “the system” then sure, obviously. Weird decision but I’m not one to judge.
In the context of the US, even ‘progressive’ democrats are center-right at best. Much of the trouble in America is a symptom of this problem.
Lol what
Lol what
I checked r/worldnews a few days ago and the comment is absolutely flooded with pro-israel and mainly support the disproportionate respond. Any anti-israel comment will either downvoted to hell or removed. I thought astro-turfing, but then i guess you don’t really need to get paid to defend something unethical.
Or maybe they’re israeli, there’s a lot of israeli enjoying the slaughter and even called it “Pallywood”, the term coined by conspiracy theorist in early 2000, arguing the Palestinian has been faking their death.
It’s like next-level Sandy Hook denialism.
would be embarrassing if intelligence services didn’t deploy bots to push propaganda and create divisions
I mean, at that point are they even trying?
What is Reddit?
There are definitely pro-Russia bots. At some point they would all come online at the same time and post the same thing but with different synonyms.
Honestly don’t know.
I avoid Reddit politics at all cost nowadays. Using an RSS for the several subreddits I like to keep track of and that’s it.
Reddit is a heavy toxic cesspool when it comes to politics. Blatant racism, hateful comments and advocating for deaths of people they don’t know (as long it is not themselves).
I recommend just avoid it and keep track of it on Lemmy or a different place you like.
I just noticed that there are quite a few users on Reddit from r/WorldNews who are defending Israel unequivocally
They’re here too, and one of them is a mod of quite a few communities.
