As a team of citizen journalists drowning in the same censorship that our readers are, it can be quite a task to figure out when to go into print on a certain topic and when to take a pass. In many cases, subject matter can be difficult to research or it is smattered full of holes by “fact checkers” claiming it to be false.
Today’s subject matter is one that we probably should not be delving into. However, we wanted to shine the light on this story that broke in February 2023 or about 1 year ago. Oddly, our team has NOT found one fact checker claiming this story to be false. When you understand the topic at hand in its entirety, you will suddenly understand how obscenely ironic this is. It is so ironic that it caused our team to pause and reflect.
Why would a story about misinformation specialists, who were exposed by an undercover investigative team of reporters and caught on tape boasting about manipulating 25-30 elections around the world, remain accessible on-line and visible for all to see when other stories about election interference are being wiped from the internet? Why is this bizarre story still standing tall and “fact checker free” one year later?
What story, you ask? The story detailing Team Jorge, also known as Demoman International, claiming on video that they successfully manipulated 27 elections around the world.
Team Jorge is the name given to an outfit of Israeli contractors specialized in the use of malign cyber activities including hacking, sabotage and bot farm-run social media disinformation campaigns to manipulate the outcomes of elections.
The Jerusalem Post published this article in February 2023.
Israeli security expert behind worldwide election manipulation efforts - report (2/15/23)
Israeli security expert and founder of Demomam International Tal Hanan found to head a team working to manipulate global politics.
The fastest way to bring our readers up to speed on this story is to share the video footage showing Tal Hanan, CEO of Demoman International, Ltd. (aka Team Jorge)
Tal Hanan (Hebrew: טל חנן; born in 1973), also known by his code name Jorge, is an Israeli businessman and former special forces operator who has been involved in disinformation campaigns in order to manipulate elections in several countries.
The video shows Tal Hanan showcasing his ability to manipulate election outcomes utilizing software called Advanced Impact Media Solutions or AIMS.
The group operates a software called AIMS for creating fake online accounts on social media networks and using them to spread fake news.
Apparently, Team Jorge was unsuccessful 6 times as the video would suggest that they were hired to manipulate 33 presidential-level campaigns.
“AIMS”: the software for hire that can control 30,000 fake online profiles (2/14/23)
Fake news, huh? Is this the “fake news” that Donald J. Trump has been yelling about for almost 7 years now? We are at war with an “invisible” enemy? Information warfare?
At this point in the story, we are guessing that many of you are likely checking out. This story simply has an “odd” feel to it. It seems somewhat manufactured or just plain weird. Our team simply wondered why little or no follow-up has occurred since this news story surfaced almost a year ago. We are talking about multiple news organizations being involved in an investigative, undercover operation.
The exposure was a culmination of work carried out by a team of 30 journalists, with three of them - Omer Benjakob from Haaretz, Gur Megiddo from The Marker, and Frederic Metezeau from Radio France - carrying out undercover investigations on the ground in Israel.
If the story is true, wouldn’t there be a massive number of follow-up stories? Why crickets?
Our team did discover that it was reported by just a few sources, like Reuters and Slate, that Twitter removed some or all BOT accounts that were associated with Team Jorge. There were apparently thousands of fake Twitter accounts spreading misinformation and propaganda.
Twitter Removed 10,000 Bots Pretending to Be Democrats Telling Other Democrats Not to Vote (11/2/18)
However, with limited US sources reporting on these details involving Twitter, we are not really sure what to think about this side story. The BOTS were pretending to be Democrats telling other Democrats not to vote? Really?
This all seems like “fake news” right? For Americans, a story like this seems even more unbelievable as we have nearly zero news outlets actually informing us of anything right at the moment.
We are going to end this post with a simple observation. When a story like this breaks and zero news coverage occurs afterwards, it must be off-limits. In other words, professionals in the news industry have been ordered “hands off” on this one.
And when a story like this does NOT attract the “fact checkers,” it means that no one is to shine any light on this because it could be just that hot. We were always taught to never touch the top of a hot stove so we are going to heed that warning now.
However, these “unbelievable” stories involving global election interference get even more interesting now that complex tunnel systems with intricate computer servers have been discovered under the UNRWA HQ in Gaza.
What exactly were they (Israel?, Hamas?, US?, UN?) doing from these tunnels? Could this be grand central station for the manipulation of elections around the world? While the UNRWA is claiming that they had no idea that these tunnels or that this massive computer server farm even existed, countries across the globe are hitting the pause button in regards to funding.
It looks like we may all have a lot more “digging” to do on the topic of tunnels and election interference. It appears we are just scratching the surface.
Oh my shades of the supposed underground complex at the new Denver International Airport (1998) - Iron Mountain? Art Bell?, Watergate, Lee Harvey Oswald, Gorby, Nikita (they warned us about "...from within!"). Per the recent National Sheriff's Association meeting in earl\y Feb in DC - every thing has been hacked. This from the Nationals like HS? Emergency Orders about to (and are showing up in State and Local Gov'ts) rewrite our election laws to seal the steal? Like Nebraska's LB 1390, 1042, 1297, and other (out of Committee and being debated) election law revisions? We the People are "Fake"!!!
Remember the TV shoe "What about Betty"? Walter Cronkites's "You are there"? DD Eisenhower? Time to invoke the Declaration of Independence on all levels of Governance!
Any Truth to the COG principles?