1 von 4 Pro-Hamas-Profilen ist gefälscht: The Online Battlefront

https://cyabra.com/1-of-4-pro-hamas-profiles-are-fake-the-online-battlefront/

20 comments

  1. So you tell me they do the same thing that ruzzians and all other terrorists do? How unexpected

  2. The title is actually “1 in 4 Profiles are pro-Hamas fakes” this is a much stronger claim, quarter of **all profiles** that talk on the subject are pro-Hamas fakes

    >Cyabra scanned over 162,000 profiles that took part in online conversations about Hamas’s attacks and their aftermath. One out of four (25%) of those social media accounts taking part in the conversation about the war was identified as fake

  3. Another quarter are 15 year old edgy morons that have zero life experience

  4. There’s a massive quantity of new fake profiles on twitter in the last few months posting about what you’d expect, but in every language imaginable, tons in Hebrew.

    You see one of them post a link and the post will have like 20-30 likes and thousands of shares.

    Wouldn’t be surprised if the Russian bot farms aren’t just doing election interference this year although this definitely plays into that as well.

  5. The question is, who is making them? I doubt if Palestine has much of a tech industry right now. Iran?

    There’s also a lot of Israeli accounts that pop up to be sarcastic about every event in the war and drown out conversation. I dunno if this is a bot thing or if Israelis are just sarcastic!

  6. So the percentage of fake pro hamas profiles is lower than the average?

  7. I have no idea what Cyabra is, so I don’t know how credible, but the numbers don’t surprise me. All wars these days are also fought on the internet. It’d be interesting to see how many fake accounts have come out of Israel.

  8. These botfarms are starting to become really annoying. Social Media feels like a place where you have to doubt everything you see or else you are at big risk of being manipulated in a way where you will be pushed away from other humans.

    Fuck this reality.

  9. Pro hamas profil rly exist ?

    I never see this on social media

  11. Thankfully only one out of every million accounts is Pro-Hamas so the percentage is staggeringly low. I’ve yet to see a single one, I’ve seen pro-Palestinian accounts asking Israel to please stop murdering them however!!!

    I’m way more interested to know what amount of fake profiles I’m actually paying for via tax dollars , who gives a shit what Iran or Russia does we hear about them on literally every single fucking reddit post lmao

  12. And how does this compare to other profiles that are pro-/anti- for other factions, in other topics? Or, dropping the pro/anti category, how many opinions and posts are fakes in general?

    1/3?

    1/8?

    Without comparable numbers, this metric is rather useless.

    It’s actually rather interesting to see their backers, which they are at least….transparent/happy enough to show off, such as Founders Fund. You might recognize one of its co-founder, Peter Thiel, which has this gem in his wikipedia page:

    >Thiel explained in a 2009 essay that he had come to “no longer believe that freedom and democracy are compatible”, due in large part to welfare beneficiaries and women in general being “notoriously tough for libertarians” constituencies, and that he had focused efforts on new technologies (namely [cyberspace](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyberspace), [space colonization](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_colonization) and [seasteading](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seasteading)) that could create “a new space for freedom” beyond current politics.[^([96])](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Thiel#cite_note-96) Said essay has been referenced by [Curtis Yarvin](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curtis_Yarvin) and [Nick Land](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nick_Land), the main theorists of the [neo-reactionary movement](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_Enlightenment), in their writings.[^([97])](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Thiel#cite_note-97)

  13. I think it’s pretty obvious that people are being heavily manipulated through social media by nefarious entities.

  14. Social media since the Ukraine invasion has gone downhill so quickly. It is honestly depressing seeing how quickly a country can ruin a websites when they go all out and bot farm it. Fuck Russia

  15. Why do you people read this shit. An excuse just for adverts.

  16. Russia trolls the Internet non-stop, there was no doubt in my mind they would miss an opportunity to drive public interest away from Ukraine support

  20. Let’s discuss something that no one has mentioned at all, since the “polluted internet age” began to take hold.

    It is a technique called “sockpuppeting”.

    Sockpuppeting is when you create mass numbers of fake accounts to further an agenda of a real account. A great example of this prior to the internet, was Ben Franklin. He’d make numerous fake pseudonyms and then review books he’d written himself to boost his reputation and sales.

    Now let’s apply this in the current day and age. Say you made an account with an agenda…let’s say…you want to push a hateful conspiracy and boost its following. The rogue user then spends however long making 1000 or more fake accounts (AI is being used now a lot for creating fake accounts). They post whatever harmful terrible controversial thing they can think of with a real account, then make bunk comments on the post with all the fake accounts. “Sure I totally agree with this and believe in this theory”…etc…

    Eventually, real people jump on board and start to boost viewership. Effectively, this is how “influencer accounts” can exploit the system.

    Sockpuppeting is being used in a weaponized fashion as we speak. There were/are literal riots being triggered from nothing more than a bunch of propaganda with fake profiles that boosted it to the masses.

    This is war. This is modern war. A war where misinformation can be exploited to cause havoc on adversarial nations. A psyop. The world seems to keep talking about “we’re on the verge of war”…but IMO it’s been going full swing for a while now. People think it’s all bombs and bloodshed…but misinformation, scams, and violent propaganda can cause far more damage with plausible deniability than dropping bombs.

    As an adversarial nation, why kill people and risk retaliation, when all it takes is using the internet to trick people into going out on the streets and causing violence themselves?!

    I believe NATO has been hit with an “internet nuke”…likely by Russia/Iran/China, consisting of troll farms, targeted scam advertisements, violent propaganda, misinformation, and sockpuppeting tactics. This is how those nations chose to strike their first tactical blow…by exploiting the internet. Additionally, election season is around the corner and Russia specifically has a history of exploiting the web to tamper in politics.

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