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An Israeli team handling elections around the world using misinformation

  • Such Hanan is an Israeli businessman promoting cybernetic manipulation and disinformation, falsifying documents or stealing documents directly for electoral or other purposes. The research was published in a newspaper article and counted, among others, its role in the 2014 Catalan referendum.

16 February 2023 - 11:30
Last updated: 17:50

Such Hanan works for multinationals and intelligence agencies and has worked in Africa, South America and Central America, the USA and Europe. It offers services such as hackey, psychological cyberwarfare, computer attacks, dissemination of messages for or against to influence public opinion, falsification of documents, dissemination of false information, theft of bank documents. To do this, among others, it controls 30,000 fake profiles on Twitter, Facebook, Gmail, Instagram, Amazon and Airbnb.

33 electoral processes

It is the result of research carried out in collaboration with different international media. Includes The Guardian, The Washington Post, Radio France and El País. In 2022 they managed to contact the Israeli businessman who uses the pseudonym Jorge and his team. They showed up as clients and told Jorge that they wanted to hire their services in favor of an African leader to influence an election. Jorge responded that he was going to do it for six and fifteen million euros, and in the conversations with him he told them that he had influenced 33 electoral processes, 27 of them successfully.

Among the works presented by Jorge as his success is the Catalan popular hacking in November 2014, the most serious cyberattack he has suffered in his history, which was supported by numerous websites of the Generalitat the day of the popular Catalan consultation.

The investigation also attributes to this company another striking case of Mexico. In the 2014 Ayotzipana massacre, 43 students disappeared under the authority of Enrique Peña Nieto. Tomás Zerón, head of the Investigation at the time, is the chief responsible, in the words of the entrepreneur himself, is the client of Zerón Tal Hanan, who asked the entrepreneur to act in public opinion to present himself as a victim of a plot led by the new president, Andrés Manuel López Obrador. Today, Zeron lives in Israel and the Tel Aviv Government refuses to extradite to Mexico.


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