#influencepeddling — Public Fediverse posts

https://www.europesays.com/people/84768/ Mass protests erupt in Madrid over corruption allegations against PM #BegonaGomezInvestigation #CivicAssociations #ConservativePPGovernment #DavidSanchezTrial #InfluencePeddling #JoseLuisAbalos #JoséLuisRodríguezZapatero #MadridMarchAttendance #MadridProtest #PedroSánchez #PlazaMoncloa #PoliticalCorruptionSpain #PopularParty #PP #RiotPolice #SanchezFamily #SantiagoAbascal #SocialistPrimeMinister #SociedadCivilEspanola #SpainCorruption #SpanishFlags #SpanishTV #VoxParty

https://www.europesays.com/people/80510/ Spanish ex-PM Zapatero under investigation for influence peddling #InfluencePeddling #investigation #JoséLuisRodríguezZapatero #PedroSánchez #PlusUltra #PrimeMinister #spain #SpanishAirline #UlisesRuiz

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"Feed algorithms are widely suspected to influence political attitudes. However, previous evidence from switching off the algorithm on Meta platforms found no political effects1. Here we present results from a 2023 field experiment on Elon Musk’s platform X shedding light on this puzzle. We assigned active US-based users randomly to either an algorithmic or a chronological feed for 7 weeks, measuring political attitudes and online behaviour. Switching from a chronological to an algorithmic feed increased engagement and shifted political opinion towards more conservative positions, particularly regarding policy priorities, perceptions of criminal investigations into Donald Trump and views on the war in Ukraine. In contrast, switching from the algorithmic to the chronological feed had no comparable effects. Neither switching the algorithm on nor switching it off significantly affected affective polarization or self-reported partisanship. To investigate the mechanism, we analysed users’ feed content and behaviour. We found that the algorithm promotes conservative content and demotes posts by traditional media. Exposure to algorithmic content leads users to follow conservative political activist accounts, which they continue to follow even after switching off the algorithm, helping explain the asymmetry in effects. These results suggest that initial exposure to X’s algorithm has persistent effects on users’ current political attitudes and account-following behaviour, even in the absence of a detectable effect on partisanship."

#InfluencePeddling

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-026-10098-2

"Trump’s Team Offers to Keep Some Ballroom Donors Incognito. Many corporate interests that have donated to the president’s pet project have business before his administration."

Also, Vladimir Putin is known for being shy, so he would prefer not to have his bribe to Trump publicized:
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/01/us/politics/trumps-team-offers-to-keep-some-ballroom-donors-incognito.html
#InfluencePeddling #EpsteinMemorialBallroom #TheBestPresidentMoneyCanBuy #politics

#trump #popeleoXIV #InfluencePeddling

@sun serious question, we know that #jeffreyEpstein became interested in bitcoin late in his life. To what extent was he into #bitcoin relative to other things that he was interested in? according to #noamChomsky, epstien met with him to discuss friggin "AI" in 2017(?) iirc. what were his stated motives for his interest in btc? was it to continue his sordid #blackmail and #influencePeddling operations or was he trying to turn his life down a different path?

the " #AI " meeting with chomsky suggests something creepy but i don't want to jump to conclusions. genuinely interested. it could be that he was saddam-husseined

#saddam

11/11
"Roll forward to today and of course the trips continue on an annual basis.

This brings me back to the Crikey article, which has a very lengthy list of Israel junketeers, ostensibly from 2010 onwards."

"The point being the list is not exhaustive, and some quite prominent names aren't on it.

Names that continue to hold sway in shaping political opinion today."

"While I can't tell you the names of all the of the politicians, journos and advisers who have been Israeli tripsters.

I can tell you that the sponsored and funded travel has been happening since at least 1983.......41 years of influence peddling."

[thread ends]
#Zionism
#Israel
#propaganda
#InfluencePeddling
#AusPol
@israel @palestine

10/11
"Not to be outdone Peter Dutton went on a Rambam junket in 2008."
#Zionism
#Israel
#propaganda
#InfluencePeddling
#AusPol
@israel @palestine

9/11
"Some very influential names - not only for that time period but well into the next decade and a half.

And the trips continued.

Here's the 2007 cohort (source: DFAT "Australia & Israel: A Pictorial History")"
#Zionism
#Israel
#propaganda
#InfluencePeddling
#AusPol
@israel @palestine

8/11

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7/11
"Within the space of a two years, the AIJAC was proclaiming it had sent 50 political influencers and future leaders on sponsored and funded trips to Israel.

This 2005 AJN article tells us who were amongst the first 50 fellows of Rambam."
#Zionism
#Israel
#propaganda
#InfluencePeddling
#AusPol
@israel @palestine

6/11
"Moving forward in time, 2003 to be precise, the Australia Israel & Jewish Affairs Council (AIJAC) then also got in on the act in also, hosting its Rambam Israel Fellowship program"

"Rambam extended the cohort of people being influenced to also include:

* politicians, political advisers, senior public servants and student leaders.

The Australian Jewish News (AJN) on 28/11/2003 proclaimed that "eight future leaders" went on the first trip."

"ight future leaders is of course a big claim - well it appears for once the headline was (semi) accurate.

Worthy of mention amongst the 8:

* Scott Morrison (then NSW Lib Party sec)
* Bill Shorten (then AWU nat sec)
* Christopher Minns (then NSW Ministerial adviser)"

"The others, well you can read about them here:"

#Israel
#propaganda
#InfluencePeddling
#AusPol
@israel @palestine

5/11
"An earlier AJT article (24/5/1984) heralds some of the first journos to go on a JBD "mission"."

"Women’s Weekly editor, Dawn Swain, SunHerald deputy editor, Tony Stephens and Radio 2GB current affairs broadcaster, Stephen O’Doherty, were guests of the Board at a small lunch organised on their return."

#Israel
#propaganda
#InfluencePeddling
#AusPol
@israel @palestine

4/11
"However, that appears to be a gross underestimation of when the JBD "journalists' missions" started.

Digging through a few archives we can go back at least 41 years .... to at least 1983 when the JBD trips apparently first commenced."

"The 1983 starting date is confirmed in this Australian Jewish Times (AJT) article (24/3/1989)....which helpfully advises us that:

"This year's tour (1989) will be seventh since this Board-sponsored initiative was inaugurated in 1983.""
#Israel
#propaganda
#InfluencePeddling
#AusPol
@israel @palestine

3/11
"Reading the article I was struck by the many years and decades the Israel lobby has attempted to influence the Australian media and politicians."

As the Crikey article notes the NSW Jewish Board of Deputies own website states:

“For about 25 years, the NSW Jewish Board of Deputies (JBD) has been inviting senior media personnel to take part in the annual journalists’ study tour of Israel,”
#Israel
#propaganda
#InfluencePeddling
#AusPol
@israel @palestine

2/11
"The v good article by
@crikey_news
in November 2023 (updated mid-Dec 2023) listed the names of various Australian journos and politicians who've gone on relatively recent "journalists' missions" and assorted "fellowships" to Israel

The article is here:"
https://www.crikey.com.au/2023/11/03/australian-journalists-politicians-trips-israel-palestine/
#Israel
#propaganda
#InfluencePeddling
#AusPol
@israel
@palestine

Now is probably an apt time to repost this from earlier this year:
1/11
I'd been wondering about the strange slant in coverage and reactions to the #IsraelPalestineConflict . This is a Xitter: thread from @jommy_tee:
"THREAD:

A few words about the early history of Australian journos and politicians going on junkets funded by various arms of the Israel lobby.
11:23 AM · Jan 3, 2024"
https://twitter.com/jommy_tee/status/1742340927295832198
#Israel
#propaganda
#InfluencePeddling
#AusPol
@israel
@palestine

AIPAC vs. Jamaal Bowman: Rep. Ayanna Pressley on Pro-Israel Lobby Push to Defeat Pro-Ceasefire Lawmaker http://www.democracynow.org/2024/6/24/jamaal_bowman_aipac_ny_16_primary #uspoli #USElections2024 #AIPACTerrorists #LobbyingShouldBeIllegal #InfluencePeddling #Gaza #AntiZionismIsNotAntiSemitism

This is #Comer's most absurd #allegation yet. #HunterBiden borrowed a little over $4000 from his dad to buy a #truck when his credit was bad. He repaid the #loan with three $1,380 payments from one of his business accounts.

Comer claims this wasn't a loan, but actually payment for #Chinese #influencePeddling. What sort of big influence peddling operation does he believe took place for $4000? Oh, and #Biden wasn't even in elected office at the time, so... 🤷‍♂️

https://www.thedailybeast.com/rep-james-comer-dishes-absurd-theory-over-hunter-bidens-truck-repayments-on-newsmax

`Bunch of malarkey': Biden dismisses GOP bribery allegations

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2023/06/08/biden-dismisses-gop-influence-peddling-allegations-malarkey/70303718007/

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`Bunch of malarkey': Biden dismisses GOP bribery allegations

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2023/06/08/biden-dismisses-gop-influence-peddling-allegations-malarkey/70303718007/

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`Bunch of malarkey': Biden dismisses GOP bribery allegations

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2023/06/08/biden-dismisses-gop-influence-peddling-allegations-malarkey/70303718007/

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`Bunch of malarkey': Biden dismisses GOP bribery allegations

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`Bunch of malarkey': Biden dismisses GOP bribery allegations

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2023/06/08/biden-dismisses-gop-influence-peddling-allegations-malarkey/70303718007/

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TRUMP FAMILY FORTUNES

Trump Children Trade on their Influence

https://medium.com/@davidguilbault/trump-family-fortunes-230ad569e3ab

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