Ever wonder how pro-Israeli comments swarm popular sites like digg, cnn within minutes of the article getting posted. Let me introduce to you the popular "Megaphone Desktop Tool". Yeah you heard it right its aptly named Megaphone Desktop tool. Some People call it Israel's newest PR weaponThe Jerusalem Post says
"An Israeli company developed a type of software that functions like a beeper from one central place. They send alerts and anyone who downloads the software gets a pop-up with links to an activity. It can be to vote for Israel in a CNN survey or react to an especially nasty article. We still have a long way to go, but this is our future."This tool has people working at the back-end who search for news and articles that the pro-Israeli community can add 'their Opinion' to. The tool debuted during the Israel-Lebanon war in July the previous year.
This is how the pro-Israeli comments that you see rush to the forums like digg and other polling sites so as to digg or positively vote stories that are to their likes and to bury or negatively vote the ones that they don't consider to be good (like maybe this one).
Shocked? If yes, then you are like most other people :-)
One interesting thing more, they even link the vote now button to the actual pro-isreali vote option so the user doesn't even get a choice after once clicking the vote now button. Here is a comment of a user saying the same thing on the tool's own site.
Don't know whether the neutral audience will find my story first or the 'Desktop Megaphone Tool'.
Here is a link to wikipedia article about Megaphone Desktop Tool.
2 comments:
That's not very surprising actually.Some time back I read an article (authenticity unknown) saying that they actually have departments and faculties in their collages researching/planning their "World dominance" ideas.
One another note , i happened to catch your article on "192.168.0.1 routable IP in PTCL cloud".I was wondering the same thing , which led me to Google it and hence i found your article.Have'nt found an explanation to it though..
Ok ,I googled it some more and found out that the device banner shown is the default banner in Huawei Ethernet Switches like S5300 .
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