Five women have said they were the targets of malicious public relations campaigns that were spearheaded by three influential players.

Democratic Socialists are capturing more votes than ever before — even as they run up against the limits of their appeal.

The Emirates has long been a major trading hub for Iran, and analysts say it has been key to Iranian efforts to evade international sanctions, which Emirati officials deny.

Story Killers Français English Inside the deadly disinformation-for-hire industry Journalists investigating disinformation are threatened, jailed and in extreme cases, like that of Indian journalist G...

Investigation on an ultra-secret Israeli company involved in manipulating elections and hacking African politicians.

The network architecture built in Gamergate helped propel Trump to the presidency and fuel conspiracies like Pizzagate and QAnon. Now, it’s backing Brett Kavanaugh.

The 2016 Presidential election shook the foundations of American politics. Media reports immediately looked for external disruption to explain the unanticipated victory—with theories ranging from Russ...

A shadowy operation involving big data, billionaire friends of Trump and the disparate forces of the Leave campaign heavily influenced the result of the EU referendum. Is our electoral process still f...

How U.S. laws—branding Palestinians as “terrorists” and redefining anti-Semitism—serve Israel’s interests.

The Israeli discourse on “terrorism” has a long history, one in which Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel’s current Prime Minister, played a central role. Thirty years ago, at a major conference on…

A tech industry leader and espionage superpower, Benjamin Netanyahu’s Israel is waging a sophisticated disinformation war on European soil through hasbara,

To understand Netanyahu's political survival, it is necessary to map the Israeli right wing and its internal conflicts.

COLUMN. Benjamin Netanyahu's government has financed an anti-Palestinian smear campaign targeting Jewish, African-American and progressive audiences in the US, writes columnist Jean-Pierre Filiu.

While misinformation networks on the right may be more widely known, at the other end of the political spectrum their counterparts have been serving the same ends

J’ai travaillé avec des ONG internationales dans la capitale des droits humains, Genève, participé à la fondation de l’une d’entre elle, et fondé encore une autre ONG en Amérique Latine. Je connais le...

As Israel's global standing plummets amid the wars in Gaza and Iran, government documents and U.S. filings reveal that Jerusalem has poured unprecedented sums into public diplomacy campaigns and influ...

The Israeli government deploys AI and payments to conservative media to try to beat back the tide of unfavorable U.S. views about its handling of wars in Gaza and Iran.

Brad Parscale has a $1.5 million per month contract to run the digital messaging effort

Inside an AI-powered influence network linking Emirati influencers, pseudo-news sites, and the European far right

A Smear Campaign Distributed Phony AI-generated Nudes of a Left-wing French Candidate. A Haaretz-Libération Investigation Has Uncovered Systems for Building an Army of Avatars – Developed in Israel

A leaked Defense Ministry tender lays out the army’s training programs for manipulating public opinion in Israel and abroad.

Editor’s Note: Yakov Hirsch is a person who came to our attention on Twitter, where he regularly assails “hasbara culture,” a banner under which he regularly berates a group of Jewish journalists incl...

Once a prominent pro-Trump provocateur, Ashley St. Clair now claims to expose how top MAGA creators coordinate messaging and turn political outrage into profit.

Sans lui, de nombreux films français ne pourraient pas voir le jour. Mais le Centre national du cinéma et de l’image animée est aujourd’hui la cible d’attaques, qui pourraient signer la fin de cette i...

« Migrants en Méditerranée, la mécanique du silence » (1/4). Le premier trimestre 2026 a été l’un des plus meurtriers depuis 2014 pour les migrants partis de Tunisie et de Libye en direction de l’Euro...

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Contracts Between Israel and Trump-linked Firms Reveal Campaigns and Plans to Target Millions of U.S. Churchgoers, Deploy Bots, Hire Influencers and Try to Make ChatGPT More pro-Israel

The filings reveal that a firm called Bridges Partners LLC has been hired to manage an influencer network under a project code-named the “Esther Project.”