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Israel HayomThe Great Bot Battle: The Fake Accounts That Flooded Social Media Ahead of the Election
Israel HayomAn investigation reveals networks of AI-generated fake accounts active online in the run-up to the election, and how easy it has become to run influence operations.
Quotes by Chen Bareket
Selected excerpts from the interview.
Chen Bareket, a tech entrepreneur and expert in social innovation and artificial intelligence, explains that AI tools make it possible to create and scale influence operations quickly and cheaply. In his view, the danger is not limited to fake accounts: real users also share the messages and lend them the appearance of public support. Bareket stresses that addressing this requires a combination of technology, transparency and information literacy, starting as early as school.
Influence operations have become cheap and fast, so defending against them cannot rely on technology alone. According to Chen Bareket, it takes a combination of tools, transparency and information literacy that starts in school.