Pro-Israel Group Censoring Social Media Led by Former Israeli Intelligence Officers

CyberWell , an Israeli nonprofit with deep ties to the intelligence arm of an Israeli government propaganda effort, has been influential in shaping social media content since October 7 .

The group, which purports to be independent, has pushed to censor accurate social media posts about IDF and Hamas conduct in the Gaza war .

CyberWell is one of many agenda-driven nonprofits now censoring social media discourse under the cover of fighting hate and misinformation.

CyberWell and Voices of Israel advisors included Lt. Col. Peter Lerner , an Israeli Defense Forces spokesperson and advisor to CyberWell , as well as former head of international relations at the Israeli labor federation Histadrut .

CyberWell shared a $ 30,000 donation with Keshet David through a foundation run by the wife of CyberWell board member Adam Milstein , who co-founded the influential Israeli -American Council in 2007 .

CyberWell ’s primary focus has been to pressure social media companies to adopt the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) redefinition of antisemitism.

Pro-Israel lobbyists have pushed to encode the IHRA definition into hate crime statutes and official speech codes for hundreds of institutions.

CyberWell 's high-level influence on social media policy arose during a meeting of the Israeli legislature's immigration committee on June 21 of last year .