Israhell's Disinformation Campaigns via AI Bot Armies

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Mass Government Disinformation Campaigns via AI Bot Armies
https://muslimskeptic.com/2024/11/04/mass-government-disinformation/

In order to subjugate a population and make them do your bidding, you must first ensure that they believe the stories you tell them, and this is a formula that modern governments have been trying to perfect through the use of technology. One of the ways in which the masses can be duped into adopting a certain set of beliefs is if those beliefs are also adopted by figures and bodies that the masses feel comfortable placing their trust in.

Examples of such authorities include government approved scientific and political "experts," government approved religious "scholars" and speakers such as the Madkhalis and Christian Zionist preachers, government approved mainstream media "journalists," and government approved celebrities and social media influencers such as the several Jewish-Israeli owned Hollywood stars. When it comes to these so-called "authorities," people often even forgo the requirement for evidence as part of their criteria for ascertaining the veracity of any claims made by them. They simply take them at their word, which they consider to be sufficient proof for accepting something as absolute truth.

There is also another category or group that people tend to put their full trust in: themselves, i.e., the majority opinion. Human psychology tends to drift and shift in-line with public perception, and people have a need to conform with popular beliefs—a need that can sometimes be so great that people will not care even if the evidence completely opposes and dismantles those popular beliefs, just so they can remain within the comfortable confines of social acceptance.

The US-Israeli Empire's Online Propaganda Campaigns

For some time now, it has been well-known that governments all over the world have utilized huge networks of fake accounts and "bot armies" online in order to spread certain narratives and to manufacture the artificial impression that the vast majority of people accept those narratives. Such propaganda is spread online in the form of social media pages, posts, tweets, comments, replies, etc.

For example, an Israeli PR firm by the name of "Mind Force" was caught running a massive anti-Hamas social media campaign, and following its removal by Meta, a full report detailing this group's online activities was released by the SIO (Stanford Internet Observatory):  https://stacks.stanford.edu/file/druid:vh191ny7721/20220804%20Mind%20Force.pdf

Approximately 19 Pages, 66 profiles, six groups, and 42 Instagram accounts posted about Palestinian issues, the Middle East, and Islam. This was the largest portion of the broader takedown, and had been active since the end of 2020 until it was suspended in June 2022. The Pages presented themselves as either legitimate news Pages, cultural Pages, or satirical Pages. The network criticized the Hamas government and claimed that Iran was one of the last supporters of the 4 Palestinians. While some anti-Israel language was used occasionally, the network focused its criticism on the Hamas government.

Anti-Hamas posts claimed the government was ineffective, had corrupt leaders, contributed to unemployment, and actively worked against the interests of civilians in Gaza. Posts highlighted topics like rising unemployment in Gaza, poor healthcare infrastructure, or excessive policing against civilians. One post from February 2022 linked to a news article discussing a Twitter campaign that used the phrase "They kidnapped Gaza" to protest Hamas' rule in Gaza. A post from June 2022 criticized Hamas for demolishing Palestinian homes for government projects. Two emblematic posts are shown in Figure 5 on the next page.

This Israeli intelligence operation focused on gaslighting Muslims into believing that Hamas is actually unpopular among Palestinians, that they are the root cause for all the suffering being endured by them, and that only Israel could "save" them from these vile terrorists. The hope was that an anti-Hamas sentiment could pave the way for a pro-Israeli attitude among Muslims, especially the Muslims in the Middle East.

These accounts also tried to create the impression that Iran is the last remaining ally of Palestine, which at the time could've contributed to Muslims in the Middle East distancing themselves from the Palestinians. Interestingly, we can see that now, in the ongoing war on Gaza, Israeli disinformation campaigns have switched up their propaganda tactics and have become anti-Iran. The reason being that this is more conducive for fueling sectarianism and further increasing discord and disunity.

Such anti-Iran and anti-Hamas propaganda was witnessed in the recent disinformation campaign against Yahya Sinwar, which was also carried out by Israel via a network of Arab "Muslim" Zionists, Madkhalis, and fake accounts pretending to be Palestinians.

Mind Force even went as far as layering their propaganda with anti-Israel messaging in order to add an air of authenticity to their lies and deception.

Aside from targeting Palestine and Muslims, they also carried out online propaganda campaigns in order to influence elections in Angola and Nigeria. Political manipulation from behind the scenes is something Israel has specialized in since its illegitimate inception.

Another Israeli firm called the Archimedes Group was banned by Facebook for trying to influence politics in sub-Saharan Africa, Latin America, and Southeast Asia—regions that the Israeli government has long been meddling in covertly, both on behalf of the US and for its own interests.

A joint investigation by the SIO and Graphika, titled "Unheard Voice: Evaluating five years of pro-Western covert influence operations," revealed another major online disinformation operation, this time conducted by US intelligence, and it was found to consist primarily of propaganda against Russia, China, Iran, and the Taliban.

Social media users were targeted with propaganda that painted Russia and China as dangerous and hostile entities, using Russia's atrocities in Ukraine and Syria, as well as China's suppression of the Uyghur Muslims as the bedrock to build their narratives upon. And although the US may have exaggerated the claims at times, it is certainly true that Russia and China are both guilty of many evil and disgusting war-crimes, especially against Muslims.

However, the hypocrisy of the US-led propaganda network lies in the fact that they presented America as the solution—the country that will save the innocent civilian citizens of these aforementioned regimes from their brutal tyranny:

Assets in the group heavily promoted narratives supportive of the U.S. on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, YouTube, and Telegram. These posts primarily focused on U.S. support for Central Asian countries and their people, presenting Washington as a reliable economic partner that would curb the region's dependence on Russia.

The utter hypocrisy of the country that is most guilty of conducting global colonialist projects resulting in untold amounts of death and destruction is plain to see.

The same type of propaganda was also directed against Iran and the Taliban. Propaganda focused on Iranians pushed a negative image of the Iranian government's support for Hamas and Hezbollah:

Posts claimed the government took food from Iranians to give to Hezbollah. One Instagram post said that by supporting Hamas and Hezbollah, the late Qasem Soleimani had brought poverty and misery to Iran. Soleimani was the former head of the Quds Force, a branch of Iran's IRGC. Some tweets highlighted embarrassing events for Iran, such as a reported power outage that caused the Iranian chess team to lose an international online tournament.

Anti-Iranian narratives were also targeted at the Afghani population, such as one in particular about the bodies of deceased Afghani refugees being returned with missing organs.

Another anti-Iranian narrative claimed in late 2021 and early 2022 that the IRGC was forcing Afghan refugees to join militias fighting in Syria and Yemen and that those who refused were being deported. Like accounts in the Middle East group, many posts focused on the actions of Iranian-backed militias in Syria, accusing fighters of committing human rights abuses and Tehran of sponsoring terrorism.

The Syrian Civil War was also a significant topic of focus when it came to anti-Russian propaganda:

Assets denounced the Russian government's support of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and Russian airstrikes that have killed and injured thousands of civilians in Syria since 2015 (Figure 23). Facebook and Instagram accounts also noted that Russia impeded humanitarian aid deliveries to Syrians by blocking decisions at the U.N., and promoted the work of U.S. humanitarian aid and support programs for Syrian refugees. The topic was one of the most covered across the group, as assets mentioned "Сирия" (Syria) over 600 times on Twitter and over 1,500 times on Facebook.

Interestingly, propaganda aimed at users in the Middle East focused quite heavily on anti-Iranian narratives, painting them as being extremely pro-terrorism and pro-genocide.

Accounts in the Middle East group consistently shared content that supported the U.S.-recognised Iraqi Security Forces (ISF) while criticizing the actions of Iran and Iraqi militias backed by Tehran. These accounts repeatedly asserted that Iraqi militias supported by Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) were loyal to Tehran over the Iraqi government and were fighting to implement Iran's imperialist project in the Middle East. Some accounts also accused Iranian backed militias of causing civilian casualties through rocket strikes on Baghdad's Green Zone.

In particular, accounts in the group promoted content critical of Qais al-Khazali, the leader of the influential Shiite paramilitary organization Asa'ib Ahl al-Haq. The U.S. designated Asa'ib Ahl al-Haq as a foreign terrorist organization in January 2020 after its members were accused of killing demonstrators at anti-government protests in Iraq in 2019.
 
Other posts from the Middle East group accused Tehran of engineering a drought in the country by jeopardizing the water supply of cross-border rivers, smuggling weapons and fuel through Iraq to Iranian fighters in Syria, and fuelling Iraq's crystal meth epidemic.

The US especially seemed to hone in on narratives where there were some pieces of truth to them, and they used these nuggets of truth to wrap their deceptive disinformation campaigns around. The main goal with such operations is for the US to keep their enemies divided, especially between the Middle-East and Iran. This is precisely why they want to keep the wounds between Sunnis and Shi'ah fresh, by constantly reminding both sides of the atrocities their governments and militias committed against each other. I mean, could you imagine the threat a Russian-Chinese-Iranian-Afghani-Middle Eastern Alliance would pose to the US-Israeli Empire? They probably wouldn't stand a chance against their united forces.

This is why they ensure that the whole world, especially Muslims, remain suspended in a state of fighting and bickering against each other as they continue their genocidal expansion projects across the globe. And as a cherry on top, the US-Israeli Empire presents itself as the savior, the valiant heroes who will save the world from the threat of Russia, China, Iran, Hamas, Hezbollah, and the Taliban. And unfortunately, some gullible and naïve Muslims tend to fall for these Zionist propaganda campaigns, unable to see the massive threat before us that we have to unite against to deal with.

The Human Problem and the AI Solution

Now, although governments all over the world regularly employ such networks of fake accounts to spread propaganda online, they are nowhere near as effective as they would like them to be. The reason? These fake accounts are run by human sacks of flesh and bone.

These humans need to eat, drink, sleep, rest, and recharge. They can be afflicted by sickness, depression, death, and on rare occasions, they can even grow a conscience which causes them to defect and become whistleblowers. Governments don't like pouring resources into continuously incentivizing these human agents to do their jobs, whether that is achieved through throwing money at them or blackmail.

Imagine the obstacles faced when trying to covertly run a sinister operation involving hundreds, if not thousands, of human employees. How many possible weak links do they have to worry about and keep tabs on constantly? And to top it off, each human is only able to run a handful of accounts. This means an army of a hundred agents working at full capacity could run only a few hundred accounts. And on the Internet, that isn't enough manpower to swing public perception overwhelmingly in any direction, especially if the narrative they are trying to discredit is extremely popular among millions upon millions of users. Just look, for example, at the current situation with the Israeli genocide of Gaza.

AI bots, on the other hand, show great potential and promise for this task. Despite their limitations and the fact that they could malfunction, be hacked, or even be destroyed, the sheer amount and high quality of propaganda they could spread on behalf of governments far outstrips anything that human agents are able to accomplish. Governments understand that humans are complicated. They have responsibilities and lives. They simply cannot just sit around and post propaganda all day. These AI bot armies, however, will be designed specifically to conduct online psychological warfare round the clock. Imagine the damage that thousands of bots, each of them running hundreds and hundreds of accounts, could cause within the online space.

Such bot traffic would rapidly dominate the Internet and social media, relegating actual living humans to being a tiny minority.

The Future of Online Psychological Warfare Conducted by AI

And this is already starting to be the case, as according to the 2024 Imperva Bad Bot Report, almost half (49.6%) of all internet traffic in 2023 was from bots.

Propaganda will be spammed online by governments all over the world, with the quality and quantity of the propaganda depending on the level of financial resources being poured into AI development by each of these respective governments. And since the United States' OpenAI seems to be leading the race, with trillions of dollars on their way to being funneled into further developing AI, it's likely that the US-Israeli Empire will be the world's leading entity when it comes to AI bot armies in the online sphere.

The only area within this arena in which humans currently seem capable of outmatching AI is in producing human content. When these human agents run networks of fake accounts, all of their posts and comments appear human, precisely because they are human. And such content is more likely to be successful in deceiving people than robotic AI-generated scripts. These human agents also engage and interact with people online, have lengthy back-and-forth conversations, make online friends and enemies, etc. This makes them appear more trustworthy to those they are trying to deceive. AI is not at that level, not yet at least.

However, as mentioned above, governments are spending a LOT of time, money, and resources towards AI development—and not just for online propaganda but all areas, be it related to the military, healthcare, law-enforcement, judiciary, education, and so on. Creating an AI whose ability to communicate and socialize is indistinguishable from humans is the next big goal, and every player in the tech industry is competing to get there first.

There is a subreddit called r/SubSimulatorGPT2, in which every single post and comment is artificially generated using OpenAI's GPT2 language model. The simulated comment sections, though still a bit robotic, seem quite impressive and almost "human." There are some obvious giveaways of course, such as the bots using grammar and punctuation marks correctly, but these are still the early stages of AI. However, if it can already interact at this level, imagine just what it could do five or ten years from now.

AI videos went from looking extremely disorienting to high quality and cohesive in just a year, and AI generated images have seen massive improvements in the same time period. Imagine the level of propaganda on social media half a decade from now. It's possible that every corner of the Internet could be replete with 4K AI-generated content, where neither users nor the most observant AI detection tools will be able to tell what's real and what isn't.

Imagine if Israel had that technology right now, how they could artificially generate millions of videos of Hamas soldiers raping women, decapitating and baking Israeli babies, etc., to drown out the thousands of real videos being shared out of Gaza of actual atrocities being committed by the IDF against Palestinians. And of course, Israel would declare those real videos as being AI-generated propaganda, claiming that it's just terrorists trying to run AI disinformation campaigns against Israel and its "most moral army in the world."

Humans stumbling into this online space will find themselves unknowingly surrounded by armies of AI bots from various world governments, debating and conversing with each other, the Internet having been turned into a fiery battleground for propaganda warfare, with the soldiers being AI bots that have weaponized human mimicry in all aspects of perception, be that audio or visual. These AIs, who will communicate just like regular human beings, will be far more adept at brainwashing their targets and indoctrinating them into the liberal world order.

And heading into the future, virtual reality is set to be the medium for online spaces. And as technology progresses in this realm, so too will the level to which it can simulate reality, allowing human users to transcend from mere audiovisual perception to include even taste, smell, and touch. Soon, these bots will be able to intermingle with humans in such virtual spaces in terrifyingly realistic ways. A user who is immersed in VR will find himself interacting with what he may imagine to be real human personalities. He might end up making a whole network of online "friends," perhaps even romantic partners, becoming psychologically and intimately connected with them, trusting every word they say, only for them to end up being junk AI bot traffic designed to keep him in a simulated world of disinformation and deception.

In this world, where the next generations of humans will acquire all their information from AI propaganda, we will see a complete shift in realities. While in the present AI models are being trained using human information and content in an effort to have them mimic humans as best as possible, in the future it will be humans who will be trained and educated by AIs, as they are indoctrinated into adopting government narratives through the endless bombardment of deceptive propaganda from all sides, be it through AI-generated news, AI-generated entertainment, AI-generated education, or AI bots interacting all over the place.

And if people begin to wise up too much, then just as they've done in real life, these governments will create new counter bot armies that will serve as controlled opposition, so that real humans who were on the verge of escaping their web of lies are cast even deeper into confusion.

Any human who steps into this matrix of Mossad bots will find himself facing what will appear as a flourishing network of users engaged in meaningful discourse and conversations. Upon closer inspection though, they will discover this false "dichotomous" ecosystem to be ultimately supportive of only a single opinion, the one that is approved by the government.

One of the unique features that sets human beings apart from animals is their ability to pass down knowledge from generation to generation, thus forming history. And through history, humans figure out what to do and what not to do, learning from past mistakes and building upon their prior knowledge. This is the method through which Islam has been preserved, how various sciences—be they philosophical, social, political, or scientific—have progressed and developed; how societies have managed to preserve culture, tradition, and moral values.

All of that is under threat due to the way that technocratic governments plan on using technologies like artificial intelligence. Once the liberal world order has subjugated humanity and trapped them in a world where all of their information, news, and education emanates from artificial intelligence and networks of bots, rather than their parents, elders, society, and books produced by knowledgeable scholars meant to preserve history and the truth, all of these values and long-held truths could gradually die out.

Isn't this exactly what countries like the US and Israel want? To rewrite history? To wipe away the memory of Palestine from the world? To extinguish the truth? To scrub clean all their genocidal crimes and atrocities in an ocean of falsehood, where the truth lies at the bottom of the sea, undiscovered and untouched? And without the truth, where will justice and accountability come from?

Muslims are aware that no matter how hard these satanic corporate governments try to hide the truth, the day will come when they will have to answer for their heinous crimes against humanity, if not in this life, then inevitably in the next.

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They are going crazy on Facebook.

Every 10th post on the "Feed" of a person critical of PissraHell,

is an AI post glorifying PissraHell.

Having been both places, I would have to say that life was better for Americans - in general - in 1980.  with REALLY slow computers and news still distributed on paper.

The Powers of the Digital World are being used for some really pathetic purposes.