Cyabra is the IDF 'Wolf' Guarding the Social Media 'Hen House'
Cyabra's connection to Peter Thiel who cofounded Palantir Technologies is currently aiding Bibi's genocide in Gaza. Cyabra's Ryan McBeth is not exposing online "disinformation' in an unbiased manner.
Cyabra is an information verification company which uses artificial intelligence to track fake social media profiles and online disinformation campaigns. The company also has contracts with multinational corporations and even the US State Department.
Dan Brahmy is a co-founder and CEO of the Israel-based startup Cyabra and he attended Reichman University (IDC Herzliya). Three out of the four founders of the company are veterans of the Israeli army’s elite cyber-defense units. Donald Trump’s former CIA director and Secretary of State, Mike Pompeo, sits on the board and it was funded by Peter Thiel’s Founders Fund and Jon Medved’s OurCrowd.
Elon Musk commissioned Cyabra to find the real numbers of Twitter’s spam and bot accounts during his negotiations to buy the social media platform.
The U.S. State Department currently has a contract with Cyabra to help monitor online information around topics like elections both at home and abroad. I would think any company that connections to Unit 8200 monitoring discourse about the upcoming election is a clear conflict of interest since it was largely Benjamin Netanyahu and Psy-Group who manipulated the 2016 election to favor Donald Trump.
Another example of Israel interfering in U.S. elections is through AIPAC (an illegal unregistered foreign lobby) that works for Benjamin Netanyahu, funded by right-wing billionaires, and used to unseat progressive candidates that oppose the genocide in Gaza.
How can we trust Cyabra to fight disinformation on social media with all their conflicts of interest?
One of Cyabra’s social media operatives is Ryan McBeth who describes himself:
“Intel analyst, software architect, cybersecurity guy, Content Creator, NEWSMAX commenter, AeroMedLab AI Director of Integration. I believe in creating dilemmas, not problems and fighting back with knowledge.”
Ryan McBeth is also a regular on Newsmax and America First with Sebastian Gorka.
Why is someone who is supposed to fight “disinformation” on social media hanging out with Gorka who was permanently banned from YouTube in April of 2021 for repeatedly spreading misinformation related to the 2020 presidential election?
Ryan McBeth’s Pro-Israel Bias
Example #1
The Israeli military used an artificial intelligence systems “Lavender” and “Where’s Daddy?” to develop a “kill list” in Gaza that includes as many as 37,000 Palestinians who were targeted for assassination with very little human oversight. It was purposely designed to target individuals when they were at home with their families.
McBeth’s response to this story that led to the high casualty rates of women and children is extremely telling of his bias:
Israel's Lavender System, AI Targeting and Battlefield Informatics (ryanmcbeth.substack.com)
The only thing worse than having AI targeting is not having AI targeting
“When it comes to AI/ML Informatics being used for targeting, the question is whether the speed of targeting outweighs the possibility of making mistakes. If the adversary has AI targeting and is more casualty-tolerant, they may gain a significant advantage in battle.”
McBeth’s justification is if Palestinians *hypothetically* acquire an AI targeting system and is more casualty-tolerant, they may gain a significant advantage over Israel. So that’s why the IDF has to kill so many women and children.
The U.S. company Palantir Technologies provided the advanced targeting AI hardware and software that is used by the Israeli military in Gaza.
According to the Memorandum of Understanding between the NSA and Israel:
“NSA routinely sends ISNU [Israeli SIGINT National Unit] minimized and unminimized raw collection…as part of the SIGINT relationship between the two organizations.” It adds, “Raw SIGINT includes, but is not limited to, unevaluated and unminimized transcripts, gists, facsimiles, telex, voice and Digital Network Intelligence metadata and content…”
Peter Thiel who was one of the founders of Palantir Technologies that’s aiding the genocide in Gaza also funded Cyabra that has a contract with the US State Department to fight “disinformation” on social media.
I’m totally sure Ryan McBeth’s online cross promotion network would never pick and choose which disinformation to debunk to the benefit of Israel. <sarcasm>
As far as I have researched, Ryan McBeth never debunked Israeli online propaganda such as the 40 beheaded babies or Hamas weaponized sexual violence on October 7th claims. Sexual violence happens in every war and on both sides, but that is very different than saying it was pre-planned warfare. There are also credible complaints of abuse by people in the West Bank and by Palestinian women and girls.
"Known for Abuse": Unveiling the Netzah Jehuda Battalion Threatened by US Sanctions (msn.com)
Claims of Israeli sexual assault of Palestinian women are credible, UN panel says | Israel-Gaza war | The Guardian
Are they fighting disinformation or speech Bibi doesn’t like?
Example #2
Ryan McBeth is actually arguing it can’t possibly be considered genocide because… “leaflets.”
I didn’t realize the U.N. definition of genocide has a “flyers” exception.
Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide | OHCHR
Nope… No “leaflets” exception.
I guess Jewish Voice for Peace, Not In Our Name, and Jews Against Genocide are all racist too? I think it’s more dangerous to conflate legitimate criticism of a nation state with the Jewish diaspora and Jewish faith.
I also find it interesting that Ryan McBeth brings up the Rwandan Genocide…
“Some of the weapons used allegedly included Israeli-made 5.56-mm bullets, grenades and rifles. However, the official documentation of those sales, and their extent, will remain closed to public eyes in light of Monday’s decision.
In addition to the Rwanda case, Mack has filed a number of Freedom of Information Act requests over the years to reveal the details of Israel’s arms sales to countries that were in the midst of a genocide at the time of the transaction, including Bosnia, Chile, Uganda and Guatemala.”
McBeth never mentioned Benjamin Netanyahu funding Hamas to prevent a 2-state solution. I would think that anyone who funds terrorism is also a terrorist?
The Israeli people deserve a true democratic country with equal rights for everyone and not a ‘Mafia State’ ruled by a gangster that funded terrorism against his own people.
Is Israel becoming a mafia state? | The Times of Israel
Netanyahu, a Gang Leader Who Can't Go on Serving as Israel's PM - Opinion - Haaretz.com
Meet the Jarushis, the crime family linked to Likud MK David Bitan | The Times of Israel
Mitzna: 'A Vote for Likud Is a Vote for Organized Crime' - Haaretz Com - Haaretz.com
My complaint is not necessarily that Cyabra is an Israeli company, but its ties to Israel’s cyber-defense units such as Unit 8200, Peter Thiel, and traitor Mike Pompeo who aided Donald Trump in his 2021 coup attempt. Cyabra isn’t an unbiased company fighting online disinformation, but actually seems to be part of Benjamin Netanyahu’s online propaganda network.
Psy-Group, Black Cube, and NSO Group are a part of the reason why we have U.S. military veterans in prison for January 6th, because they believed the lies and online propaganda networks about the 2020 election. I will not stay silent while another foreign online company uses domestic traitors to target and prey upon the veteran community.
We will not be played for “suckers and losers” ever again.
-D.C.
Sources:
How US Intelligence and an American Company Feed Israel’s Killing Machine in Gaza | The Nation APRIL 12, 2024
“Such horrendous ‘mistakes’ are hard to understand, considering the enormous amount of advanced targeting AI hardware and software provided to the Israeli miliary and spy agencies—some of it by one American company in particular: Palantir Technologies. ‘We stand with Israel,’ the Denver-based company said in posts on X and LinkedIn. ‘The board of directors of Palantir will be gathering in Tel Aviv next week for its first meeting of the new year. Our work in the region has never been more vital. And it will continue.’ As one of the world’s most advanced data-mining companies, with ties to the CIA, Palantir’s ‘work’ was supplying Israel’s military and intelligence agencies with advanced and powerful targeting capabilities—the precise capabilities that allowed Israel to place three drone-fired missiles into three clearly marked aid vehicles…
Palantir’s AI machines need data for fuel—data in the form of intelligence reports on Palestinians in the occupied territories. And for decades a key and highly secret source of that data for Israel has been the US National Security Agency, according to documents released by NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden. After fleeing to Hong Kong in 2013 with a pocket full of flash drives containing some of the agency’s highest secrets, Snowden ended up in Moscow where, soon after he arrived, I met with him for Wired magazine. And in the interview, he told me that ‘one of the biggest abuses’ he saw while at the agency was how the NSA secretly provided Israel with raw, unredacted phone and e-mail communications between Palestinian Americans in the US and their relatives in the occupied territories. Snowden was concerned that as a result of sharing those private conversations with Israel, the Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank would be at great risk of being targeted for arrest or worse…
But it gets even worse. They found that the Israeli army deliberately and systematically bombed the homes of targeted individuals—killing entire families—simply because another AI algorithm told them the individual was there. ‘The result,’ they write, ‘as the sources testified, is that thousands of Palestinians—most of them women and children or people who were not involved in the fighting—were wiped out by Israeli airstrikes, especially during the first weeks of the war, because of the AI program’s decisions.’”
Cyabra: IDF cyber-sleuths defend US government, celebrities and companies against disinformation - OurCrowd Blog Jan 31, 2021
With millions more people spending time at home, often not going out or engaging in other activities, there is a growing captive audience hooked to social media feeds. They have become the prime source of disinformation, explained Dan Brahmy, co-founder and CEO of Israel-based startup Cyabra, an information verification company which uses artificial intelligence to track down fake social media profiles and expose online disinformation campaigns, working with clients that range from large public corporations to the US State Department…
Cyber defense
Three out of Cyabra’s four founders are veterans of the Israel army’s elite cyber-defense units. The company hit its stride in 2020, just as the coronavirus pandemic began to present a daunting new challenge in online disinformation.
The fact that the pandemic, and the regulations to control it, are affecting nearly everyone around the world also means people globally are paying a lot of attention to news and information about the virus itself, making the topic a ripe opportunity for disinformation, said Vincent O’Brien, a foreign service officer in the U.S. State Department, one of Cyabra’s clients…
The U.S. State Department added Cyabra to its tool chest to help monitor online information around topics like elections both at home and abroad.
Ex-CIA Chief Pompeo Joins Cyabra's Fight Against Disinformation - Jewish Business News by Gali Raz Published January 14, 2024
“We are thrilled to welcome Mike Pompeo on board,” declared Cyabra CEO Dan Brahmy. “His insights and guidance will be crucial as we develop cutting-edge solutions to combat disinformation and protect communities online.”
The $5.7 million funding round, led by Jerusalem-based venture platform OurCrowd, brings Cyabra’s total funding to $16 million. This fresh capital will fuel the company’s R&D efforts, global expansion, and development of new tools to detect and dismantle sophisticated disinformation campaigns.
“It’s a rare opportunity to collaborate with someone of Mike’s caliber,” commented Jon Medved, Founder and CEO of OurCrowd. “His presence strengthens Cyabra’s leadership in this critical field, where the security of nations and companies hangs in the balance.”
Cyabra gets $5.6M Series A to launch news disinformation detection analysis tools | TechCrunch Kate Park @kateparknews / October 26, 2021
Misinformation and disinformation content has continued to increase across social media channels, and its effects have impacted every type of organization, from the public to private organizations. A Tel Aviv, Israel-based startup called Cyabra has built a SaaS platform that measures authenticity and impact within the online conversation, detects false information and its authors, and further analyzes it to connect the dots.
The startup announced it has closed a $5.6 million Series A round as it releases several new disinformation detection analysis tools that help to increase authentic conversations, consumer influence, trends and the success and reputation of companies. Its Series A round brings the total raised to $7.6 million.
The latest funding was led by OurCrowd, along with Peter Thiel’s Founders Fund, Harpoon Ventures, Alabaster, Accomplice, Red Shepherd Ventures, Summus Z, TAU Ventures and Capital Y Management. Angel investors, including former global co-GM of Samsung Pay Will Graylin and former CPO of Tinder Brian Norgard, also joined in the round.
Elon Musk gets Twitter bot data from Cyabra | OurCrowd Oct 20, 2022
Elon Musk commissioned OurCrowd portfolio company Cyabra to find out the real numbers of Twitter’s spam and bot accounts as he negotiates his on-off acquisition of the social media platform, Clare Duffy and Brian Fung at CNN Business report.
The number of fake accounts is central to the dispute over the $44 billion deal, with Musk saying Twitter underestimates the problem. Cyabra’s machine learning algorithm analyzes hundreds of parameters to determine the authenticity of online profiles, and its research confirms Musk’s claim.
Activists: Elon Musk should review Jackson Hinkle for fake X engagement APRIL 19, 2024
Cyabra had found that from a sample of 12,510 of Hinkle's followers, roughly 40% were fake.
Lavender & Where’s Daddy: How Israel Used AI to Form Kill Lists & Bomb Palestinians in Their Homes | Democracy Now!
The Israeli publications +972 Magazine and Local Call have exposed how the Israeli military used an artificial intelligence known as “Lavender” to develop a “kill list” in Gaza that includes as many as 37,000 Palestinians who were targeted for assassination with little human oversight. The report is based in part on interviews with six Israeli intelligence officers who had firsthand involvement with the AI system.
+972 reports, quote, “Lavender has played a central role in the unprecedented bombing of Palestinians, especially during the early stages of the war. In fact, according to the sources, its influence on the military’s operations was such that they essentially treated the outputs of the AI machine 'as if it were a human decision.'”
A second AI system known as “Where’s Daddy?” tracked Palestinian men on the kill list. It was purposely designed to help Israel target individuals when they were at home at night with their families. One intelligence officer told the publications, quote, “We were not interested in killing operatives only when they were in a military building or engaged in a military activity. On the contrary, the IDF bombed them in homes without hesitation, as a first option. It’s much easier to bomb a family’s home. The system is built to look for them in these situations,” they said.