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Comment by Sporktacular

1 year ago

You are wrong. It is part of a campaign called 4il which is supported and spearheaded by the staffed by the Israeli Strategic Affairs Ministry. Act.il's is staffed by former intelligence officers and its founder and CEO is former intelligence officer Yarden Ben Yosef who said that "both Israels military and the Shin Bet security service were making specific requests from Act.il for its help in getting violent anti-Israel videos removed from Facebook and other platforms." before walking the statement back. If you call that no affiliation, then you're spreading misinformation.

https://archive.is/ERHPN#selection-2055.97-2055.288 https://archive.is/BR10K

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Kranar  1 year ago

I'm wrong about what? A specific claim was made that act.il receives funding from the Israeli government and that is simply false. Nothing you've presented in any of your posts indicates in anyway whatsoever that the Israeli government has funded act.il

The very link you present even states that the army and Shin Bet do not request help from act.il.

It's in the very next sentence from the one you chose to highlight.

  • Sporktacular  1 year ago

    You obviously didn't read the original source: "Watchdog The Seventh Eye revealed that Israel’s Ministry of Strategic Affairs spent almost $2 million on one propaganda campaign in 2017 – part of which was allocated to Act.IL."

    And it links to an article at https://www.972mag.com/the-israeli-government-is-paying-for-... "Another large sum (from the Israeli Ministry of Strategic Affairs), around NIS 2 million ($570,000), was budgeted for building the Act.il website and producing multi-media content for it."

    You're strangely confident that act.il getting government funding is "simply false" when you're simply wrong.

    So explain just how the post was misleading.