The secret world of disinformation for hire
Today in Focus
The Guardian
4.6 • 5.9K Ratings
🗓️ 22 February 2023
⏱️ 43 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Guardian. |
| 0:10.4 | Today, the special investigation into an Israeli network, |
| 0:14.0 | meddling in elections around the world. |
| 0:16.3 | Hello, what's your name? |
| 0:28.3 | What are you? |
| 0:30.3 | What are you listening to right now was secretly recorded. |
| 0:36.3 | Everyone on the call is using an alias. |
| 0:38.3 | They're a journalist posing as political consultants. |
| 0:42.3 | And they're talking to a man who claims to be at the center of a network. |
| 0:46.3 | Which, for a fee, says it can make anyone believe anything. |
| 0:52.3 | We are providing a service and mainly its intelligence and influence. |
| 0:58.3 | These are the two key. |
| 1:00.3 | He says he can bring down governments, change the course of elections, |
| 1:04.3 | send a rival company out of business. |
| 1:08.3 | Of course, in elections, it's coming together very well. |
| 1:12.3 | Our experience. |
| 1:14.3 | Today, the story of the international investigation |
| 1:18.3 | that infiltrated a team of disinformation mercenaries |
| 1:22.3 | and fought them with what they fear the most, |
| 1:24.3 | being exposed in public. |
| 1:28.3 | And this is part of our power that the other side does not understand we exist. |
| 1:32.3 | From the Guardian, I'm Michael Safi. |
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