KiraChats [she/her, they/them] @hexbear.net

2y ago

"Words of Iron" is an Israeli propaganda app for social media brigading, where users are fed zionist posts to boost & anti-zionist posts to report

The "Words of Iron" app gives zionists one centralized hub to promote posts that support Israel by increasing their engagement (including by pasting pre-written comments) while directing users to anti-zionist posts to report in an effort to get the post or the poster removed from the internet. It's a zionist brigading app.

Archived "Words of Iron" site

Medium article by the devs

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Twitch recently indefinitely suspended me (full time streamer for the past 7 years) for "sharing extensive content related to terrorist or violent extremist groups" so while I've been fighting that, I've been digging into the ways that zionists are manipulating social media platforms and algorithms to their benefit (and to our detriment).
- their greatest (and laziest) weapon seems to be fucking with people's livelihoods like that.
  silencing anyone with a platform. i hope you can win your fight!
  
  Thank you!
- wait this made me look up your username and i had no idea you had changed it or that you were anywhere near this based. i was in your discord for a bit lmao
  
  haha no way! You're always welcome to join our server again, my linktree is in my bio.
  btw I appreciate the compliment. My community and I have evolved quite a bit over the past several years. Growing politically in public (from centrist edgelord --> anti-imperialist communist) as a woman has also garnered me a TON of harassment from the usual douchey suspects, hence the current Twitch ban I'm fighting.
- damn that sucks. i used to watch ur streams and appreciate the work u have done. hope you can find a new platform!
  
  Thank you! ❤️
- If your interested in IG influencers, look into the “Tel Aviv Institute” which creates content and hints that it sells bots.
- Damn that's dark, I hope you can find an alternative.
  
  Thanks, I had a whole breakdown when it happened 😀
As fucked up as this is, how hard would it be to take this concept and make a leftist version of it for us to use to brigade our enemies?
They started it so why shouldn't we?
- Zionists got so mad that leftists could post better than them so theyre buying clicks.
  This is literally just people who buy clicks. They're just avoiding the bot farm ban hammer because they can use fash failchildren zionists instead of bots.
  The actual idea itself is just the result of disgusting techbro startup culture that is the Israeli tech field.
- They're what every other site is terrified we are lmao
- Seriously though, how difficult could this be? What resources would we need?
- points to hexbear dot net
  Post a link to whatever it is that needs the attention, give some context in your post as to what the issue is that needs to be addressed and then let us piggies do our thing.
  
  and then let us piggies do our thing
  you fuckers don't do shit just whine in the comments in the_dunk_tank and don't touch the actual stuff that's posted. Not that I do anything either, so I'm one to talk, but still
- Shit like this doesn't work. It's incredibly easy to sus out, which is why most zoomers reflexively reject Israeli claims. If anything it just makes your position seem even weaker.
- There was an app like this for the Bernie 2016 campaign if I remember correctly - you’d get push notifications with content to post on Twitter and FB
- I thought this then realized I'm posting to the evil empire website
I edit in Wikipedia. The pro Israeli brigading is fucking painful. You can't get in one discussion without 7 other random editors jumping in to chime in to say that Al Jazeera is a biased news source or that a Twitter post disproved that point.
- Wikipedia of Iron
"Words of Iron" sounds like a name a neonazi would come up with.
- I was gonna post if the Nazis had internet this is the type of shit they would name their websites, although words of iron might be 60 letters long in German for all I know.
Wonder if its possible to sign up for this app and somehow work against it from their side
- It seems they just give you a pre-written response to say to a specific post they pick.
  I have no idea why they're boasting so much. You just bought an Azure Cloud service.
- This is the Jeremy Reiner app but for Zionism. You have a parasocial relationship with the creator, but you’re only allowed to react positively to it
They need to add lootboxes and battlepasses if they want to convince me to join. Insult 5 Arab children and you unlock dark mode
Help prevent the spread of false or anti-Israeli content by reporting it.
bit on the nose imo
Yeah, been saying for years that this is what the left should be doing.
- I fully agree with you, but we'd be banned off the platform in a matter is days. Brigading is only OK when it serves the current power structure.
  
  Which is why you do everything you can to make it look like an organic build up. Something that's easier to do when you have an organized platform like this vs just dropping random links in the dunktank without even anonymizing referrals.
  
  I wonder if they'd consider it similar to boycotting Isreal?
- Same, we need to employ propaganda more effectively. I don't like things like this, but the mainstream narrative is always against us and we should take any opportunity to offset that even slightly.
  
  the mainstream narrative is always against us and we should take any opportunity to offset that even slightly.
  
  This is one of the ways how the mainstream narrative is built. Organize means much more than Unions, it means using the tools we have available to us to build a united front in advancing our goals. One of which should most definitely be fighting their propaganda and the consent manufacturing that makes it easier for them to commit social murder on us. Oh, and in this case, literal Genocide.
- They already reflexively dismiss anything leftist as "putlerbots" or whatever, why would you do the thing that they accuse you of doing to dismiss you. This is such a dumb idea. The existence of this app has probably done more to harm Israel's credibility than the millions of half-assed pro Israel comments would've done to boost it.
  
  Every special interest group that has any sort of real money backing them has some sort of variation on this concept. Heck, volunteering with political candidates will have you doing a variation on the concept, but heaven forbid we organize to actual bring the truth to people.
  And
  if you think the average person online but us gives a shit or thinks about this for more than a minute. This has been going on for decades now. I'm sure this is what's destroying Israel's reputation. Definitely not the genocide.
- Thats fucked up no matter the side
  
  Fuck off with the “they go low we go high” bullshit
  
  You're not going to accomplish anything by playing by the "rules" that are set up by the already winning team.
  
  how do you reckon
  
  yeah, no. I'd rather survive than keep my hands "clean".
four years ago. Upgrade your israel activism - act il
How israel influences social media - caelan Conrad
- ty for these
Fun fact: I have the home address and phone number of a prominent Zionist politican/"enterpreneour" named Dr. Eli David.
- If you're ever driving around and see a way-too-big house, take note of the address. You can use the single free lookup from property-shark to see who owns it and cross-reference the name to linkedin and other spots.
  I once found the Saudi education minister's home when looking at giant mansions in the DC area from google maps.
  
  Tried this on the biggest house in the neighborhood and found the home of the guy that owns a giant warehouse sales chain with his name attached.
  Advice to prople who try it: mailinator.com is good for short-term disposable email addresses useful for one-time sign-ins like this, and property shark only verifies with email, so you can fake all of the other required fields
Of iron, huh?
Words of Iron? How about Hearts of Iron now excuse me while I go get all my divisions fucking encircled because fucking Romania is buffed to shit for some shitty-ass reason fuck the forum users fucking nazis
Brigading is a made up redditor concept used by people who are mad that people from outside their echo chamber show up. Whatever this is shouldn't be conflated with that.
- I think it's the opposite, this is actual brigading and what redditors use the word for shouldn't be confused with this
  
  whichever it is, please dont mistake me for a redditor
Damn we need this for communism
- This site sort of does that with the dunk tank. I know I've gone into Reddit threads posted here to start shit lol
- I wonder if you could just use Words of Iron to counteract it. Report their posts and boost the posts they dislike. If anything it gives the game away because they’re demonstrating which posts get under their skin.
- Please don’t conflate Israel and “Jews.” Zionists control the mainstream news, not the Jews. Zionists control the US government, not the Jews. Most Zionists are Christians, especially in the United States.
  Zionism has always leaned into antisemitic tropes because it is a fundamentally antisemitic ideology so this is by design and they hope that casual observers will conflate Zionists actions with Jews generally to increase global antisemitism.
  
  I’d like to apologize for that comment. Your point is exactly the point I was trying to make, that Zionists doing stuff like this lends credence to antisemitic conspiracy theories. It didn’t come out well.
  
  For a laymen who has been grouping them together can you please explain the difference between jews and zionists? I am more specifically curious what the association is between zionism and neo nazis since this thread seems to agree there is a relationship between the two.

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