Družbena omrežja so prestreljena z izraelskimi agenti

20 junija, 2025 By in gospodarstvo

Prastara novica je, da vam vsebine, ki jih lahko vidite na družbenih omrežjih, filtrirajo in ciljno ponujajo algoritmi, ki jih nadzorujejo in usmerjajo ameriške obveščevalne agencije. Manj javno je dejstvo, da za njimi stojijo izraelski agenti, ne samo Mossada, pač pa predvsem zloglasne enote 8200. Gre za posebno obveščevalno enoto izraelske vojske, odgovorne za tajne operacije, zbiranje signalnih obveščevalnih podatkov (SIGINT) in dešifriranje kod, protiobveščevalne dejavnosti, kibernetsko vojskovanje, vojaško obveščevalno dejavnost in nadzor. No, “nekdanji” operativci enote 8200 se po aktivni službi v tej enoti kot rak naselijo v vse ključne medije – tako družbena omrežja (glejte spodaj) kot klasične fizične in elektronske medije (naslednji post).

Kontrolirajo pa tudi večino ostalih “kanalov” za elektronske komunikacije, od WhatsAppa in Viberja do najbrž tudi Signala in Telegrama. Nasploh Meta (Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp) – Zuckerberg ! – je prestreljen z agenti enote 8200. Torej karkoli delite ali se pogovarjate na Facebooku, Instagramu in WhatsApp, vam pregleduje, filtrira in beleži izraelska obveščevalna služba. In še več, v primeru ste “oseba interesa”, vašo lokacijo spremlja in deli z drugimi izraelskimi in ameriškimi obveščevalnimi agencijami. Če imate na telefonu eno izmed teh aplikacij, imate na sebi tarčo. Kadarkoli vas lahko eliminirajo. Kot se je zgodilo prejšnji teden iranskim generalom in jedrskim znanstvenikom.

Nič ni narobe, če vas ne moti, da toliko informacij delite z izraelskimi in ameriškim obveščevalnimi agencijami. Vaša izbira. Toda kdor ne želi biti tarča 24 ur na dan, bi moral razmisliti o tem, da te aplikacije izbriše s svojega telefona.

Thread🧵 In light of Iran’s allegations about WhatsApp sharing user location data with Israel, it’s important to understand how deep Israeli intelligence penetration of big tech firms goes.

I’ve been working on this topic for 4 years. Here’s what I found.

Firstly, Meta (WhatsApp’s parent company) is filled with former intelligence agents from the Israeli Defense Force’s elite cyberwarfare battalion, Unit 8200.

Chief among these is Emi Palmor, who sits on Meta’s Oversight Board – a 21-person panel that ultimately dictates the direction of the company, deciding what content is allowed and what is disallowed.

Palmor is a former Israeli spy and later went on to become General Director of the Israeli Ministry of Justice. In this role, she directly oversaw the stripping away of Palestinian rights and created a so-called “Internet Referral Unit” which would find and aggressively push Facebook to delete Palestinian content on its platform that the Israeli government objected to.Image
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Another important person at Meta is Eyal Klein, head of data science.

Klein spent six years in Unit 8200, rising to the rank of captain. Image

But what is Unit 8200?

Put simply, it is the centerpiece of Israel’s hi-tech global spying, hacking, and cyberwarfare apparatus.

Responsible for covert operations, spying, surveillance and cyberwarfare, since October 7, 2023, the group has been at the forefront of the world’s attention. It is widely identified as the organization behind the infamous pager attack on Lebanon, which left at least nine dead and around 3,000 people injured.

Unit 8200 has also constructed an artificial intelligence-powered kill list for Gaza, suggesting tens of thousands of individuals (including women and children) for assassination. This software was the primary targeting mechanism the IDF used in the early months of its attack on the densely populated strip.

Using gigantic amounts of data compiled on Palestinians by tracking their every move through face recognition cameras monitoring their calls, messages, emails and personal data, Unit 8200 has created a dystopian dragnet that it uses to surveil, harass and suppress Palestinians.

Unit 8200 compiles dossiers on every Palestinian, including their medical history, sex lives and search histories, so that this information can be used for extortion or blackmail later. If, for example, an individual is cheating on their spouse, desperately needs a medical operation, or is secretly homosexual, this can be used as leverage to turn civilians into informants and spies for Israel. One former Unit 8200 operative said that as part of his training, he was assigned to memorize different Arabic words for “gay” so that he could listen out for them in conversations.

Unit 8200 operatives have gone on to create some of the world’s most downloaded apps and many of the most infamous spying programs, including Pegasus, which was used to surveil tens of thousands of activists, journalists, and politicians around the world.

The Israeli government authorized the sale of Pegasus to the Central Intelligence Agency, as well as some of the most authoritarian governments on the planet. This included Saudi Arabia, who used the software to spy on Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi before he was assassinated by Saudi agents in Türkiye. 

That is why it is so inappropriate for big tech companies to hire Unit 8200 agents.

Among those companies is Google.

My investigation revealed at least 99 former Unit 8200 spies in Google’s ranks.

One notable example is Google’s Head of Strategy and Operations, Gavriel Goidel.

Between 2010 and 2016, Goidel served in Unit 8200, rising to become Head of Learning at the organization, leading a large team of operatives who sifted through intelligence data to “understand patterns of hostile activists”, in his own words, transmitting that information to superiors. Whether this included any of the over 1000 Gazan civilians Israel killed during their 2014 bombardment of Gaza is unknown.

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Perhaps more alarmingly, Microsoft appears to be actively recruiting from the regiment, hiring people straight from Unit 8200 ranks, without even a career break in between.

My investigation found at least 166 former Unit 8200 agents working for Microsoft.

Even TikTok, long slammed as a pro-Hamas, anti-Israel platform, has recently begun hiring former Unit 8200 agents to run its affairs.

Reut Medalion is a particularly notable case in point.

Medalion enjoyed a long career at Unit 8200, serving as an intelligence commander and later becoming head of its cybersecurity operations team. In the wake of Israel’s attack on Gaza, she moved to New York City to work as a global incident manager for TikTok’s trust and safety division. Considering the events going on in the world at the time, it is fair to wonder with what sorts of “global incidents” is she helping TikTok.

One also has to wonder what sort of pressures TikTok is under, and if they relate at all to hires like these.Image

For the full investigation into TikTok’s ties to Unit 8200, see here:

Vir: Alan MacLeod