An Israeli company offers disinformation campaigns for money - worldwide. Joint research by ZDF, SPIEGEL and ZEIT with the investigative network Forbidden Stories reveals the extent.

Three journalists go undercover to meet men who operate in secret and claim they can manipulate any election in the world. On offer: the complete package. Sowing doubt, causing unrest, ultimately torpedoing democracy. They call it electronic warfare. Their tools are an army of avatars.

The research on Team Jorge, the secretive force from Israel, took several months. Journalists from more than 30 editorial offices around the world were involved - including the Israeli daily Haaretz, Radio France, Le Monde and the Guardian.
In Germany, ZDF, SPIEGEL and Die Zeit did the research. The revelation is part of the "Storykillers" project of the investigative network "Forbidden Stories," which aims to highlight the serious consequences of disinformation campaigns: https://forbiddenstories.org/
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Chapter:

00:00 Intro
02:10 Undercover
05:08 Electronic Warfare
09:36 Connections to Cambridge Analytica?
12:25 Manipulation Software: Advanced Impact Media Solutions (AIMS)
29:10 Outro
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Authors of the film: Armin Coerper, Felix Klauser
Undercover reporters: Gur Megiddo, Omer Benjakob, Frédéric Métézeau
Research: Christo Buschek, Roman Höfner, Max Hoppenstedt, Roman Lehberger, Nathan Niedermeier, Frederik Obermaier, Bastian Obermayer, Marcel Rosenbach
Camera: Torsten Groß
Editing: Johannes Bauer, Marcus Dippner
Art Director, Graphics: Nicolas de Leval Jezierski
Graphics: Marie-Louise Stoll
CvD Cine Impuls Leipzig: Rita Kundt
Head of Social Media Cine Impuls Leipzig: Veronika Prütz
Team Cine Impuls Leipzig: Lisa Goldberg, Dirk Nebel, Sabrina Goldack
Producer Cine Impuls Leipzig: Anke Kossira
Editors ZDF: Christian Rohde, Kyo Mali Jung
Head of Content frontal ZDF: Kyo Mali Jung
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Related Links:

More research from Forbidden Stories: https://forbiddenstories.org/

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