"Hasbaristas": The Social Media Influencers Profiting From War
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🗓️ 15 April 2025
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Summary
TODAY at 5 PM EST: Join Greg Stoker on State of Play, a MintPress News podcast, as we delve into "Hasbara 2.0" – the sophisticated online tactics used to shape narratives around Israel and suppress dissent.Guests Jacob Berger and Blakeley both targets of coordinated online attacks, as we reveal:
- *The Hasbaristas:* Unmasking the networks that fund and train digital influencers to defend Israeli policies and silence dissent.
- *Weaponized Algorithms:* How Hasbara 2.0 leverages astroturfing, algorithmic manipulation, and accusations of antisemitism to control the narrative.
- *Big Tech Complicity:* Why platforms like Meta, X, Google, and TikTok take advantage of State-Sponsored disinformation campaigns.
Tune in for yet another epic livestream on State of Play.
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| 0:00.0 | Okay, well, shout out to producer Jim for coming up with a much better title sequence for the show. |
| 0:13.3 | That was giving like very atomic age nuclear apocalypse vibes with the whole countdown ticker. |
| 0:20.6 | So that's great hello and welcome yeah |
| 0:23.7 | yeah so uh it's it's 1159 one minute to midnight hello and welcome to state of play on mint |
| 0:31.1 | press news we've got a big episode for you because everyone on every platform who is anti-fascista is getting suppressed. |
| 0:39.6 | And we're here at Mint Press News or also dual posting to the Colonial Outcast podcast platform, |
| 0:46.0 | the Anti-Imperials podcast. |
| 0:47.9 | Your problematic uncle who intermittently disappears during Thanksgiving dinner to sneak beers in the woods would hate. |
| 0:56.5 | So, uh, we got a big episode here for you about has baristas, uh, mass deportations to torture |
| 1:04.0 | camps in foreign countries, you know, and the social media influencers profiting from war. |
| 1:10.6 | We could do a Patreon plug here because we are actually media influencers profiting from war. |
| 1:14.3 | We could do a Patreon plug here because we are actually not really profiting. |
| 1:18.0 | We are demonetized on YouTube X and like all platforms. |
| 1:21.6 | So check out Mid Press News on Patreon if you pick it up a war putting down. |
| 1:29.5 | But anyways, this is going to be more of a didactic activism episode here, more so than objective journalism. I actually no longer believe that journalism should be balanced or objective. We saw the liberal media in Germany |
| 1:34.8 | during the 1930s try to have objective editorial stances, like, let's hear and present both sides |
| 1:42.3 | of the argument. Meanwhile, the other side of the argument was literal Nazis. |
| 1:46.1 | So anyways, we ain't going to do that here at Mint Press News. We got information ward of wage. |
| 1:51.2 | And to that end, we are joined by two wonderful guests. First, we've got I.M. Blakely, the incisive Brooklynite activist who spends a lot of time owning the Zio's and the |
| 2:03.0 | libs. According to your chaotic Twitter bio, you are songwriter, white trash belly ring enthusiast, |
| 2:10.1 | non-binary, lefty, Christian, coffee fanatic, Dashman, Mom, and Patriot. So that's cool. Thanks for coming on. Thanks for having me. Yes, |
| 2:21.4 | Docson, Mom, as you can see. Sorry that they do have to be featured, but if I put them in |
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