The Great BOT Purge on the X Network (Twitter): Who Is Behind Them.
A BOT is an automated software program designed to perform repetitive tasks over a network, often imitating or replacing human actions, but at a much faster speed and higher accuracy. These programs can be helpful, but they can also be malicious, used for tasks like sending spam or launching denial-of-service attacks.
BOTs run independently based on a
specific set of instructions, without needing a person to manually start them
each time.
They are ideal for performing tasks
that would be tedious or time-consuming for humans, such as communicating with
users.
Today, after the
hostage-release deal is behind us and the X network (formerly Twitter) removed
overnight a wide range of accounts that were impersonating an individual in one
simple and ingenious move of revealing the operator’s location such as Qatar, Turkey,
Bangladesh, Pakistan and others, none of whom were in Gaza as they purported to
have one believe.
The public in Israel,
were a target for foreign attacks - the eighth front in its full force!
The campaign strategy is to flood messages on
social networks on a large scale, utilizing the Hamas propaganda messages.
High-quality messages formulated by the management layer of initiator, with a
deep understanding of Israeli society, with emphasis on a very rapid response
to current events, using well-crafted profiles that appear to be Israeli or
Gazans but are not.
a. Many groups of
user-operators participated in running the network uploaded thousands of tweets
on to X (Twitter):
b. By adopting a
political identity, the user identified the issue of the hostages and
opposition to the government as points through which there is potential to
bring the war to an end and lead the campaign to ‘adopt’ an Israeli opposition
political identity.
d. Almost all the fake
profiles of the campaign adopted the identity of left-wingers, opponents of the
government, and supporters of a deal for the release of the hostages.
e. The campaign’s
messages were formulated in an attempt to align with the messages of the
hostage families and the opposition in Israel, in order to create
identification and cause them to share the messages.
f. Comprehensive
monitoring of the campaign revealed that there is no activity in it to spread
right-wing messages or support for the government.
g. The initiators
studied Israeli society - what its values are, who the tribes composing it are,
and who its key figures are - in order to find the cracks through which they
could promote messages that would tilt Israeli public opinion toward supporting
a halt to the war.
h. The network operated
to publish statements of the spokesperson of Hamas’s military wing, despite
Israeli censorship, in order to bring the harsh content to the knowledge of the
public in Israel and assist Hamas’s influence and psychological warfare efforts
and tilt Israeli public opinion.
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