[catchnear4321]

> Activity by a commercial company in Israel called STOIC, because technically we disrupted the activity, not the company.

hmm. is this legal cya because a name was named? naming and shaming is a curious choice. taking care to specify what was disrupted is… well, it draws the eye.

all others were called operations or groups. unlikely the groups were disrupted even if their operations were. no difference in pattern. just in categorization. company vs cell.

what is the extra care for, exactly?

[grooly]

Meta also reported disrupting activity from the same company:

https://www.reuters.com/technology/meta-identifies-networks-...

[kbigdelysh]

Based on the Reuters article, The Israeli company STOIC put many ai-generated comments on social media posed from Jewish, African Americans and concerned citizens praising Israel's handling of the war in Gaza.

[giraffe_lady]

Probably all of them are state affiliated but only this one affiliated with a state the US considers an ally?

[thiagoharry]

This is what I thought reading the article. To be fair, before reading the article I was expecting to find zero disrupted activities related with the west and its allies, but the fact that they disrupted that AI usage by Israel was a good surprise. However, I really doubt that US does not do the same, spreading propaganda in Internet, based on the fact that they employ and finance several radios, and newspapers around the globe with this purpose (ex: Radio Free Asia). Giving how the US government and tech companies are close, with backdoors planted in CISCO routers, and information collected from social media, I find hard to believe that OpenAI or any other US-based company is trusted to report and disrupt activities like these when performed by US government, or perhaps some closer allies.

[giraffe_lady]

Yes agreed with all of that. I'm sure this was handled... carefully.