Revealed: the hacking and disinformation team meddling in elections

St.Mike
Published on Feb 16, 2023
A covert team of Israeli contractors who claim to have manipulated more than 30 elections around the world using hacking, sabotage and automated disinformation on social media have been exposed in a new Guardian investigation.
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The unit is run by Tal Hanan, a former Israeli special forces operative who now works privately using the pseudonym â€œJorgeâ€. In more than six hours of secretly recorded meetings, Hanan and his team spoke of how they could gather intelligence on rivals, including by hacking Gmail and Telegram accounts.

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