Isreali Students Paid $2,000 To Spread State Propaganda On Facebook

Free speech on the internet has been the most useful tool for spreading information and connecting with people around the world but as the establishment governments around the world have realized how detrimental the open web has been to their agendas, it's become a target of sorts for disinformation which even the US military has admitted to be taking part in but the true depth of what they do is a bit unknown although we can speculate.

The National Union of Isreali Students (NUIS) is now working full force with the government to lead the way in spreading what they claim to be "true propaganda" in an effort to battle Jewish antisemitism where students can apply to work about 5 hours a week to "refute" what it calls "misinformation" about Isreal on social networks. This is also being done in partnership with the Jewish Agency, the Isreali body that encourages Jews from around the world to settle on stolen Palestinian land, to spread propaganda on campuses around the world.

It's hard to imagine a government being directly and openly involved in "spreading true propaganda" but it's not far from reality even in the United States where legislators have proposed "fact checking" agencies that would be tasked with determining whether certain information on web is "factual" or not and warning users about content they claim to be nonfactual. Sen. Joe Lieberman has been the at the front of most of the Chinese style proposals to control information on the web along side others in Washington who've been heavily lobbied into support of the Protect IP Act and SOPA.

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