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Even more concerning is the Israeli tech industry's role. For example, this is what is said in a Hebrew article about Bright Data (formerly Luminati), which AFAIK owns one of the largest (legal) pools of residential IP addresses and is demonstrably capable of making a massive amount of fake social media accounts for the purposes of scraping at scale (translated by Claude):

>The Israeli company Bright Data developed the TrendTrack system for promoting social intervention in support of Israel, providing tools to identify, report, and respond to posts gaining traction on social media. As a company specializing in global collection of public information from the internet, Bright Data has extensive infrastructure and public data collection capabilities. Based on these, they rapidly created massive databases that form the foundation for the new system, which aims to assist Israeli advocacy efforts during this difficult time.

Interestingly the same company also helps in investigation of state-sponsored influencing campaigns of Western adversaries (China, Russia, and Iran).