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February 24, 2025

The Terrorist Groups Running an Online Anti-Israel Propaganda Network

Their lies spread through social media and manipulate Google and ChatGPT.

Tracing the flow of anti-Israel propaganda on social media, Ashley Rindsberg finds that a great deal of it comes from a close network of anonymous accounts with direct ties to terrorist groups. Much of this material originates on Reddit, a website where user-moderated communities (“subreddits”) share and discuss links, images, and so forth, and on Discord, a social site used primarily by video-game enthusiasts. Reddit—whose stock is traded on Wall Street—is often the conduit through which content passes from the darker corners of the Internet to mainstream social-media sites like Facebook and X. Rindsberg explains:

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