Foreign agent registrations have revealed the increase of Brad Parscale's Israeli propaganda contract value to $9 million, as well as myriad brands his company distributes the material through.
Wow, the Israelis are ramping up propaganda because they've worn out the threat of calling you an anti-semite. How much of the US's annual 'grant' - I think it's $4 billion - to Israel pays for this propaganda machine as well as funds AIPAC? That's so ironic isn't it, we may be paying for our own brainwashing.
The implications of the scope of the contract became quite controversial, but the scope has become pretty transparent now that the various brands for the propaganda distribution are public.
Thanks for the reporting. $9 million for these shitty websites, with bogus footage, cheap titles, and AI voice tracks, that were likely put together in a few days by a handful of people or Parscale in his boxers. Would love to see where these media assets appear, if they violate the policies of these platforms (as some of them are so egregiously false and AI generated), and reporting on the correspondence and creative briefs between the political operators and the "brands".
Not exactly related, but I’ve seen Israeli settler “gift basket” ads on youtube, to support "bespoke artisan" Jewish life in tough economic times (in settlements). It was partially made with AI talking heads, with evasive information about their location… but clicking the fine print led to addresses in the West Bank. One would think ads for this commerce in illegal settlements would be against Youtube corporate policy.
I assume you have already looked at adstransparency.google.com. It isn't particularly transparent on the advertisers themselves, but you can see what the ad library of each is.
Wow, the Israelis are ramping up propaganda because they've worn out the threat of calling you an anti-semite. How much of the US's annual 'grant' - I think it's $4 billion - to Israel pays for this propaganda machine as well as funds AIPAC? That's so ironic isn't it, we may be paying for our own brainwashing.
I linked to the initial reporting on the contract from the Quincy Institute:
https://responsiblestatecraft.org/israel-chatgpt/
The implications of the scope of the contract became quite controversial, but the scope has become pretty transparent now that the various brands for the propaganda distribution are public.
Thanks for the reporting. $9 million for these shitty websites, with bogus footage, cheap titles, and AI voice tracks, that were likely put together in a few days by a handful of people or Parscale in his boxers. Would love to see where these media assets appear, if they violate the policies of these platforms (as some of them are so egregiously false and AI generated), and reporting on the correspondence and creative briefs between the political operators and the "brands".
Not exactly related, but I’ve seen Israeli settler “gift basket” ads on youtube, to support "bespoke artisan" Jewish life in tough economic times (in settlements). It was partially made with AI talking heads, with evasive information about their location… but clicking the fine print led to addresses in the West Bank. One would think ads for this commerce in illegal settlements would be against Youtube corporate policy.
I assume you have already looked at adstransparency.google.com. It isn't particularly transparent on the advertisers themselves, but you can see what the ad library of each is.