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😲 #Israel not only "authorized" but "encouraged" NSO Group & others to sell spyware to #SaudiArabia *even after MBS' murder of #JamalKhasshogi, acc to @ronenbergman & @MarkMazzettiNYT. nytimes.com/2021/07/17/wor…
the reporting underscores the opacity of these firms & Israel's licensing procedures. remember, whatever NSO and others say they are doing, it is not subject to any independent oversight. none. zilch.
while the reporting is illuminating, this deeply problematic industry's malfeasance has long been known. consultants hired by NSO must have done some due diligence & yet bafflingly they proceeded.
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[#Thread on Jamal Khashoggi] 1/ It's been a year since Jamal Khashoggi was killed, and the Saudi propaganda machine went into overdrive. As it's the anniversary, I wanted to share some strange findings from October 2018, and offer some new insights on the scale of disinformation
2/ An unusual aspect about the killing of #JamalKhashoggi killing was that it was one of the few times where a regime habitually lies only to actually admit later that it was more or less lying. This means we have a chunk of news we know is fake, and a chunk we know is true
3/ With this in mind, I sought to see whether the true story, or the false story, resonated more widely on Twitter. Was the Saudi propaganda or the truth spread more widely? After all, we do know that fake news spreads more quickly and widely... #JamalKhashoggi
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