🧵With three billion monthly users, Facebook is the world’s largest media platform. This gives whoever controls it enormous power to shape narratives worldwide. The US government has consistently used this power to influence Facebook and censor and delete viewpoints it does not like.

🧵Tommy Robinson has been deeply linked to Israel since the very beginning of his political activity in 2009.

MintPress outlines what we know so far: Tommy Robinson founded the English Defence League with Paul Ray in 2009. Ray previously infiltrated and spied on the pro-Palestinian International Solidarity Movement (ISM).

🧵Meet CIA asset Mohammed Dahlan, who has been handpicked by the US, Israel, and Gulf Arab states to govern Gaza 'after the war'. Mohammed Dahlan is a CIA asset who worked with the US.

🧵The BBC’s reporting on Gaza has been called out repeatedly by both the viewing public and internally from staffers, which leaked internal emails have now provided further information on. From sanitised and misleading headlines to outright double standards, the British national broadcaster has consistently presented a narrative favourable to Israel. Leaked internal BBC emails presented “evidence of a collapse in the application of basic standards and norms of journalism that seems aligned with Israel’s propaganda strategy.”

🧵Following the attempt on Donald Trump’s life, political leaders have joined a chorus of denunciations, all agreeing that political violence has no place in America. Yet the U.S. itself has constantly used assassinations and other forms of political violence against its enemies all over the world. This includes Donald Trump himself, who ordered the assassination of Iranian leader Qassem Soleimani. Qassem Soleimani

🧵The images of a defiant Trump, surrounded by bodyguards, his arm raised in the air, have gone viral, with many supporters claiming that they represent the most iconic, powerful pictures of all time.

But this assertion was strongly challenged by many on social media, who suggested their own, more powerful political images – ones with a far more progressive, radical or revolutionary undertone to them.

For your viewing pleasure, MintPress has collated some of the best ones here. Gloria Richardson, 1963.

🧵Trump’s VP pick, JD Vance, is funded and backed by Peter Thiel, a key pro-Israel figure in the deep state apparatus whose famous consonant company Palantir contracts with US intelligence agencies and Israel's Mossad. JD Vance is backed by Peter Thiel who was on Trump’s Transition team in 2016.

Zayn al-Abidin Muhammad Husayn Abu Zubaydah is a Palestinian man who was detained in 2002 by US agents without any charge or trial. Before arriving in Guantanamo in 2006, Abu Zubaydah was transported to different countries, including Thailand, Poland, Afghanistan, Morocco, and then later Cuba. Abu Zubaydah claims that before arriving in Guantanamo, Cuba, he was subjected to extreme sleep deprivation, confinement inside boxes, beatings, death threats, starvation, denial of medical care, and no access to sanitation.

🧵Germany announced a new citizenship law requiring applicants to declare Israel's right to exist. This move, part of a broader citizenship overhaul, underscores Germany’s commitment to its values, including its historical responsibility towards Judaism.

🧵WikiLeaks co-founder Julian Assange is moving swiftly towards freedom. While many free speech advocates celebrate, MintPress looks back at the many top media outlets that helped, or even campaigned, to keep him locked up for the crime of journalism. The Washington Post

🧵Julian Assange’s Biggest Revelations

Julian Assange is finally free. The WikiLeaks co-founder struck a plea deal with American authorities. After more than a decade in prison or under effective house arrest, MintPress looks back at some of the Australian publisher’s most important stories. WikiLeaks publicized a wide array of U.S. military war crimes in the Middle East, including the infamous July 2007 massacre in Baghdad, where U.S. strikes killed at least 12 people in cold blood.

🧵According to a New York Times investigation, during the Gaza conflict, Israel's Ministry of Diaspora Affairs financed a $2 million covert influence effort aimed at American lawmakers and the general public. Using hundreds of fictitious profiles on X, Facebook, and Instagram, the political marketing firm Stoic, located in Tel Aviv, conducted an advocacy campaign for sustained military funding directed at members of Congress and the American public.

🧵Melanie Ward, the current CEO of Medical Aid for Palestinians, is facing calls to resign after announcing she will run as an MP for pro-Israel Keir Starmer's Labour Party.

MintPress can exclusively reveal her decades of work with Israel lobbyists and hatred for Jeremy Corbyn. Melanie Ward first travelled to Palestine with the Israeli Embassy-funded Union of Jewish Students in the early 2000s.

On her blog, she recounted, "It was fascinating; we met Israeli politicians and academics and discussed a huge range of issues... We talked about the fear that ordinary Israelis felt about suicide bombings."

🧵Today marks the 200th day of Israel's genocide in Gaza.

Here are the latest figures... - 3,025 massacres

- 41,183 killed or missing

🧵Amal Clooney is a liberal human rights icon. The Lebanese lawyer of Palestinian descent has built up a reputation as a moral force in international politics.

In this new investigation from @AlanRMacLeod , we explain the potential reasons behind her silence. Together with her movie star husband, George, she built the Clooney Foundation for Justice, a human rights NGO that works in over 40 countries.

A new @MintPress investigation explores how NATO is using memes and online humor to attempt to win a propaganda war against Russia, in the process subjecting the world to some of the unfunniest content ever devised by man. In November NATO published a study: “Humor in online information warfare: Case study on Russia’s war on Ukraine” which described how jokes and memes could be used to win a propaganda war against Russia.

🧵A MintPress News investigation has found that dozens of former officials from the State Department, CIA and FBI are working in key positions at TikTok and affecting the content that over one billion users see. A MintPress News investigation has found dozens of ex-U.S. State Department officials working in key positions at TikTok.

🧵A new investigation by @KitKlarenberg for MintPressNews explores how the rampant Islamophobic stereotypes in the “Borat” movies helped prime Western audiences to accept Israel’s slaughter in Gaza. In the wake of Israel’s onslaught, Cohen and other Borat writers strongly supported the Jewish state.

🧵Benjamin Netanyahu reportedly wants controversial lawyer Alan Dershowitz to defend Israel from charges of genocide at the International Court of Justice. But Dershowitz himself has a past as controversial as Israel itself. This includes accusations of sexual misconduct, plagiarism and supporting racists.

🧵Britain has consistently supplied arms to Israel through various British companies. Ranging from components for fighter jets to sniper rifles and Apache helicopters.

🧵As American politicians dance to the drums of war against Gaza, MintPress News unveils the top recipients of Israel lobby money of all time. Joe Biden