{"id":660804,"date":"2022-05-18T17:39:28","date_gmt":"2022-05-18T17:39:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/popularresistance.org\/?p=206333"},"modified":"2022-05-18T17:39:28","modified_gmt":"2022-05-18T17:39:28","slug":"censoring-palestine-swarms-of-israeli-bots-are-crippling-pro-palestinian-twitter-accounts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2022\/05\/18\/censoring-palestine-swarms-of-israeli-bots-are-crippling-pro-palestinian-twitter-accounts\/","title":{"rendered":"Censoring Palestine: Swarms Of Israeli Bots Are Crippling Pro-Palestinian Twitter Accounts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThese accounts were following the exact same people that were tweeting about Palestine, but from France or Francophone accounts that work on Palestine,\u201d Razek said of her new followers.<\/p>\n<p>The advocacy director of R\u0101bet, the Palestine Institute for Public Diplomacy\u2019s digital platform, became wary of the issue after Abier Khateb, a grants manager at Open Society Foundations, reported mass followings as well.<\/p>\n<p>Razek told\u00a0MintPress News\u00a0that she began individually reporting each account as fake but kept her own account open \u2014 lest she let the alleged bots win. But after a few days, Razek made her profile private. At the peak of the mass following, Razek had accumulated 400 fake followers.<\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/popularresistance.org\/censoring-palestine-swarms-of-israeli-bots-are-crippling-pro-palestinian-twitter-accounts\/\">Censoring Palestine: Swarms Of Israeli Bots Are Crippling Pro-Palestinian Twitter Accounts<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/popularresistance.org\/\">PopularResistance.Org<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/popularresistance.org\/censoring-palestine-swarms-of-israeli-bots-are-crippling-pro-palestinian-twitter-accounts\/\">PopularResistance.Org<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThese accounts were following the exact same people that were tweeting about Palestine, but from France or Francophone accounts that work on Palestine,\u201d Razek said of her new followers.<br \/>\nThe advocacy director of R\u0101bet, the Palestine Institute for Publi&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12197,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[92,5722,82,94,473,739],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660804"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12197"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=660804"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660804\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":661055,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660804\/revisions\/661055"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=660804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=660804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=660804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}