Lee Fang

It obviously wasn't the top comment when I posted it. When I came into the discussion most were about not attributing it to the state in question despite no evidence either way, and downplaying it. And, the fact that my comment has come to the top means that it has seemingly resonated with a lot of users with similar experiences (~+70pts). If you do actually follow the topic very closely, or read one or two comments further down in this thread you would have come across this link to pro-israeli astro turfing zoom call tutorials by the idf https://www.leefang.com/p/inside-the-pro-israel-information and many other examples

This is classic redirection tactics, exactly as Lee Fang exposed last week [1]. You talk about those wars, I'll support you. I'll talk about this one [1] https://www.leefang.com/p/inside-the-pro-israel-information

> Israel paid an American lawyer for advice on how best to skirt some pesky American laws. Pesky American laws? You mean the law meant to prevent unknown foreign influence in our country? That’s what you describe as pesky? > By the low, low moral standards of American politics and corporations, it doesn't sound like Israel did anything particularly bad. And they even seem to have cared about being (just barely) on the right side of the law! I’m not sure how one can interpret hiring lawyers for the sole purpose of figuring out how to evade our laws shows that they cared about being on the right side of the law. If they cared about being on the right side of the law, they’d have simply registered as foreign agents, as the law requires them to. According to the leaked emails, Liat Glazer, then a legal advisor to Israel’s Ministry of Strategic Affairs, worked to hide the Israeli government’s hiring of Sandler Reiff, the American law firm they engaged to help them figure out how to evade the law [0]. [0]: https://www.leefang.com/p/leaked-israeli-docs-reveal-effort

This piece might be relevant: https://www.leefang.com/p/inside-the-pro-israel-information

Related: https://www.leefang.com/p/inside-the-pro-israel-information

https://www.leefang.com/p/house-democrat-threatens-twitter > Taibbi has admitted mistaking CIS for CISA in a single tweet in one of his many threads, but his testimony to Congress was entirely different. Hasan deceptively conflated this quickly corrected tweet with Taibbi’s testimony. > But the evidence shows that Taibbi’s congressional remarks were correct. CIS and CISA collaborated with EIP on moderation requests, with both organizations directly appealing to Twitter for censorship, making Taibbi’s overall point and particular argument completely accurate. He swapped them in one particular tweet, quickly corrected, but it was nowhere near "one of the most prominent examples".

This is a direct link to the article: https://www.leefang.com/p/big-tech-resumed-hiring-foreign-workers The moneycontrol.com link is merely a summary of that.

Since Hunter Biden is mentioned tangentially in the piece, this was published today by Lee Fang, another former Intercept contributor: https://www.leefang.com/p/emails-show-hunter-biden-hired-specialists Fang claims emails show Hunter Biden hired PR specialists to whitewash Wikipedia's coverage of him.

Mehdi Hasan is proof that MSNBC can air someone who's as much of a shouty partisanship-addled blowhard as Fox's Sean Hannity. Investigative journalist Lee Fang goes deeper into Hasan's allegations about Taibbi – plus Hasan's history of plagiarism & viewpoint-flexible controversialism-for-pay at: https://www.leefang.com/p/mehdi-hasan-plagiarized-pro-spanking

The American government, including the political, bureaucratic and the judicial sectors, seems quite eager to implement the Chinese system of mass surveillance and control of the population, and would do so immediately if given the chance. Incidentally, this warrantless camera surveillance of specific targets is fairly similar to the current practice of private companies engaging in surveillance of all kinds of online communities, then selling their collected data to the FBI, which thus avoids the need to go before a judge to get a warrant. https://www.leefang.com/p/private-spies-hired-by-the-fbi-and

https://www.leefang.com/p/msnbcs-mehdi-hasan-gets-basic-facts Maybe you're actually the one falling prey to false information, and harming others by spreading it. From the article: The Taibbi-Hasan debate speaks to the sorry state of affairs in the U.S. news media. Every journalist gets things wrong occasionally. Taibbi has conceded that he made an error in one of his tweets, though not in his congressional testimony, and swiftly corrected it. Many of Hasan’s claims have been debunked, including his false claim, first flagged by journalist Aaron Mate, that he “never said a word about the Hunter Biden story" and of course this CISA-EIP issue. Hasan’s version of journalism means never correcting his own falsehoods. But since Hasan works for a cable news network where exciting a polarized audience is the chief performance metric, he is sure to benefit from the gotcha-style assault on Taibbi.