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Recently released Foreign Agents Registration Act documents reveal that the Israeli government is paying pro-Israel social media influencers roughly $7,000 per Instagram and TikTok post, enriching the content creators for performing the simple task of spreading Benjamin Netanyahu’s propaganda. The files show invoices totaling $900,000 sent by a firm partnered with the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs to an international media group working for Israel. 

The firm, which lists its business address in Washington, D.C., describes its work as assisting with “promoting cultural interchange between the United States and Israel.” The identities of the well-paid influencers are not known.

Ana Kasparian made a noteworthy point about this story on X on Wednesday, writing, “since Israel has enough cash to burn on mindless internet hacks… can American taxpayers stop funding their [wars]?”

That seems like a perfectly legitimate question to us.

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