{"id":9047,"date":"2023-02-22T03:38:34","date_gmt":"2023-02-22T02:38:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/02\/22\/the-secret-world-of-disinformation-for-hire-podcast\/"},"modified":"2023-02-22T03:38:34","modified_gmt":"2023-02-22T02:38:34","slug":"the-secret-world-of-disinformation-for-hire-podcast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/02\/22\/the-secret-world-of-disinformation-for-hire-podcast\/","title":{"rendered":"The secret world of disinformation for hire &#8211; podcast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>How an undercover investigation revealed a team of Israeli contractors who claim to have manipulated more than 30 elections around the world using hacking, sabotage and automated disinformation on social media<\/p>\n<p>Last year, coordinated by the French media organisation Forbidden Stories, a group of journalists from around the world, including from the Guardian, embarked on a project: to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/series\/disinfo-black-ops\">get inside the murky world of disinformation and expose those who profit from it<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Among the reporters were<strong> Gur Megiddo,<\/strong> an Israeli investigative journalist for the business newspaper TheMarker. With him was<strong> Omer Benjakob,<\/strong> a reporter with the Israeli daily paper Haaretz, and <strong>Fr\u00e9d\u00e9ric M\u00e9t\u00e9zeau,<\/strong> a journalist with Radio France. As part of an undercover investigation, they held meetings with a secretive team of Israeli contractors selling \u201cblack op\u201d influence campaigns to those with the means to pay for them.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/audio\/2023\/feb\/22\/the-secret-world-of-disinformation-for-hire-podcast\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/95a505a1f455ec6d6ac76959d3ccb09e3c7b12a1\/284_17_2339_1403\/master\/2339.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=05875da596e8aebe9331d70efa662b4e\" title=\"The secret world of disinformation for hire - podcast\" \/>How an undercover investigation revealed a team of Israeli contractors who claim to have manipulated more than 30 elections around the world using hacking, sabotage and automated disinformation on social media<br \/>\nLast year, coordinated by the French media organisation Forbidden Stories, a group of journalists from around the world, including from the Guardian, embarked on a project: to get inside the murky world of disinformation and expose those who profit from it.<br \/>\nAmong the reporters were Gur Megiddo, an Israeli investigative journalist for the business newspaper TheMarker. With him was Omer Benjakob, a reporter with the Israeli daily paper Haaretz, and Fr\u00e9d\u00e9ric M\u00e9t\u00e9zeau, a journalist with Radio France. As part of an undercover investigation, they held meetings with a secretive team of Israeli contractors selling \u201cblack op\u201d influence campaigns to those with the means to pay for them. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How an undercover investigation revealed a team of Israeli contractors who claim to have manipulated more than 30 elections around the world using hacking, sabotage and automated disinformation on social media Last year, coordinated by the French media organisation Forbidden Stories, a group of journalists from around the world, including from the Guardian, embarked on &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/02\/22\/the-secret-world-of-disinformation-for-hire-podcast\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The secret world of disinformation for hire &#8211; podcast<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":9048,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9047"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9047"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9047\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9048"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}