REVEALED: MASTERMIND FROM ISRAEL RIGGED 33 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS WORLDWIDE

Thu 16 February 2023:

In what could be termed the biggest expose in the history of elections, an investigation reportedly revealed that a team of Israeli contractors under Tal Hanan, a 50-year-old former Israeli special forces operative rigged over 30 elections worldwide using hacking. Many journalists were part of the investigation which brought to light shocking revelation based on undercover footage and leaked documents, a copy of which was leaked to Guardian.

Hanan and his team were running under the codename “Team Jorge.” He was extending his services to intelligence agencies as well as private companies including services at the time of political campaigning.

How could they pull off all this? There was a huge army which worked on spreading out thousands of fake social media posts on Twitter, Facebook and other social media platforms. If this seems hard to digest, Hanan and his team also strewn about other accounts which had sensitive details such as credit card information and other money wallets.

Three journalists – from Radio France, Haaretz and TheMarker – approached Team Jorge pretending to be consultants working on behalf of a politically unstable African country that wanted help delaying an election.

In more than six hours of secretly recorded meetings, Hanan and his team spoke of how they could gather intelligence on rivals, including by using hacking techniques to access Gmail and Telegram accounts. They boasted of planting material in legitimate news outlets, which are then amplified by the Aims bot-management software.

Much of their strategy appeared to revolve around disrupting or sabotaging rival campaigns: the team even claimed to have sent a sex toy delivered via Amazon to the home of a politician, with the aim of giving his wife the false impression he was having an affair.

Tal Hanan, the leader of Team Jorge, a hacking and disinformation unit. Photograph: Haaretz/TheMarker/Radio France.

Israeli government connection

The Team Jorge revelations could embarrass Israel, which has come under increasing diplomatic pressure in recent years for exporting cyber-weaponry that undermines democracy and human rights.

Hanan appears to have conducted at least some of his disinformation operations through an Israeli company, Demoman International, which is listed on an Israeli Ministry of Defense website designed to promote defense exports.

The most groundbreaking revelation made by Hanan was when in one of the conversations, he claimed, “We are now involved in one election in Africa … We have a team in Greece and a team in [the] Emirates … You follow the leads. [We have completed] 33 presidential-level campaigns, 27 of which were successful.”

Not only this, afterwards, he also claimed that he was involved in two “major projects” in the US but claimed not to engage directly in US politics. However, it is pertinent to note that all these claims by Team Jorge is not verified as part of the investigation done by the journalists.

SOURCE: INDEPENDENT PRESS AND NEWS AGENCIES

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