Team Jorge is the name given to an outfit of Israeli contractors specialized in the use of malign cyber activities including hacking, sabotage and bot farm-run social media disinformation campaigns to manipulate the outcomes of elections.[1] One of the organization's primary tools is a software package called Advanced Impact Media Solutions, or Aims.
The group was exposed in February 2023 after an award-winning[2] undercover operation by journalists from Israel and France as part of consortium of investigative journalists coordinated by Forbidden Stories.[3][4] The organization has been active since at least 2015 and boasts of having manipulated 33 presidential elections worldwide, many of them in Africa, and in 27 cases with successful results.[5]
Their activities were revealed following a 2022 sting operation in Tel Aviv, carried out by three undercover journalists, who posed as prospective clients and filmed their interactions with Tal Hanan — the group's leader and former Israeli special forces operative — in which he explained the inner workings of the organization.[6] Tal Hanan used the pseudonym "Jorge" when working with the hacking and disinformation group, which inspired the Team Jorge name.[1]
^ abBenjakob, Omer; Megiddo, Gur (15 February 2023). "Hacking, Extortion, Election Interference: These Are the Tools Used by Israel's Agents of Chaos and Manipulation". Haaretz. Retrieved 17 February 2023.
^"Radio France / La Cellule d'investigation récompensée par un Online Journalism Award". Radio France (in French). Retrieved 2 September 2023.
^Leloup, Damien; Reynaud, Florian (16 February 2023). "Les réseaux sociaux, pierre angulaire des opérations d'influence et d'intoxication". Le Monde.fr (in French). Retrieved 17 February 2023.
^Kirchgaessner, Stephanie (15 February 2023). "How undercover reporters caught 'Team Jorge' disinformation operatives on camera". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 17 February 2023.
^Cite error: The named reference Megiddo was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
^Kirchgaessner, Stephanie; Ganguly, Manisha; Pegg, David; Cadwalladr, Carole; Burke, Jason (15 February 2023). "Revealed: the hacking and disinformation team meddling in elections". The Guardian. Retrieved 17 February 2023.
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