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Today, 2 software engineers from Israel @NoamR & @YuvAdm exposed & led to the shut-down of a foreign network of ~150 fake Twitter accounts guised as orthodox Jews, twitting in machine translated Hebrew, with the purpose of politically influencing Twitter users in Israel. Chapeau!pic.twitter.com/hgO6YO4PCP
The exposure & consequent shut-down is the culmination of hard, highly technical, time consuming & resource hungry work to fetch 10s of millions of raw pieces of information, process them & connect the pieces of the puzzle. You have the right expertise/resources? You too can helppic.twitter.com/T0daqL3sK6
How can anyone, using machine-translated Hebrew, make natives believe he's Israeli? Since machine-translation from anything to Hebrew sucks, except for the shortest and simplest sentences. Looks to me that such an attempt is doomed to fail.
Gender of nouns would also betray machine-translated Hebrew as it doesn't correspond with gender of original language. Locutor gender too is not conveyed correctly by Google Translate, especially since the source sentences can be gender-blind.
Moreover, @ZionHebronn used two pictures of Haredi singer Motty Steinmetz... :D
Plenty of legitimate accounts use fake profile pictures, though.
Awesome work! It's so critical to find these fakes before they spread too much disinformation. Really fantastic.
What kind of politics were these fake-Israeli bots promoting, out of interest?
I'm curious too. One of the accounts pictured describes themselves as "Netanyahu's Girlfriend," which gives it away, but what about the others?
All of the accounts are pro-Bibi (they tend to have the same tweets verbatim), but many are also hostile to Sara Netanyahu.
Don't understand what significance the Netanyahu family has for Israeli politics -- could you enlighten me please?
Sara is personally unpopular. Has been for decades. She's viewed as more rigidly right-wing than Bibi, and she abuses the household staff.
Bibi, meanwhile, is importing the American presidential cult of personality into Israel, treating Sara as a First Lady.
If you're puzzled as to why a botnet that supports Bibi trashes Sara, then so are Noam and Yuval, the hackers who uncovered the botnet.
It may have to do with the corruption scandal that has been pinned on Sara.
Wow... I'm rosennisrah. I'm not a bot. I'm not fake account. I didn't put my real picture on any account. I'm not a fraud. I'm not ultra Orthodox. I'm just in love with Benjamin Netanyahu. and I want to marry Benjamin Netanyahu..
Interesting. We could use their expertise in the U.S..
Yesh! Haya yoffi.. I support it! Fake accounts using name of UO/O are made to make other people (even fellow Jews) more anti/hate to UO/O.
Hope they will do it globally
, bc outside of Israel there‘re many fake accounts like that.
Hope next for Facebook & Instagram too
Who was behind it?
#AparrhiedIsrael finally admitted f occupation.https://mobile.twitter.com/HauserTov/status/1059440177599393792 …
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