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🗓️ 30 December 2024
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Senior staff writer at MintPress News Alan MacLeod joins Bad Faith to discuss an explosive report on the huge number of former Israeli intelligence officers currently working in U.S. media & tech, and how they influence U.S. news coverage of Israel's occupation of Palestine.
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Produced by Armand Aviram.
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0:00.0 | I think you touched on something really important that I'll just touch on there. |
0:02.7 | I'm not saying that this is some sort of grand conspiracy for Israeli agents to try to, like, |
0:08.2 | filter it into big social media companies or big elite media, let's like CNN. |
0:13.6 | What I'm saying is that actually being a member of the Israeli military, |
0:17.8 | even the most controversial units that are involved in the spying and the sort of |
0:22.7 | AI-driven slaughter that's going on in Gaza, even that is not considered particularly controversial |
0:29.1 | in elite American circles. It seems to be about as controversial as if you were, for example, |
0:34.9 | an ex-marine or an ex-US Navy person trying to get a job in a newsroom. |
0:39.4 | It's not going to hold you back. Whereas, if you've got public posts on your Facebook saying |
0:44.2 | free Palestine or sharing amnesty international articles condemning Israel, that is going to be a block |
0:50.7 | on your journalistic career or your career at Google or wherever. How I went about |
0:55.8 | doing the research, you know, I'm not some sort of super tech savvy guy. Honestly, you just see |
1:01.7 | something like Barak Ravid saying publicly on his Twitter that he's no longer serving in Unit 8200, |
1:08.8 | and it gets you thinking, really? I can't believe anyone would do that. |
1:12.5 | And so you just start very simply going to employment databases like Zoom Info or LinkedIn |
1:18.1 | and start typing very interesting things like Unit 8200 CNN or Unit 8200 Facebook and seeing |
1:25.7 | what comes up. And a lot of my journalism actually revolves around |
1:29.4 | just doing basic searches in LinkedIn, for instance, doing stuff like Facebook CIA or TikTok |
1:35.8 | NATO. And the level and just the amount of people that will come up in senior positions in a lot of |
1:43.7 | these organizations will make |
1:45.5 | anyone's hair stand on end. And I would advise anyone with a LinkedIn account to just start |
1:50.0 | doing that and see the sorts of people who come up. And yeah, as I said, just writing Unit 8200 |
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