NEW: A leaked Israeli Defense Ministry tender reveals the military has been training soldiers to run influence operations targeting public opinion at home and abroad — including "Black Hat" techniques that bypass Facebook and Google's rules.
The program trains up to 320 personnel per year in psychological warfare, propaganda, deepfakes, and social profiling of foreign audiences.
Some courses are in English, for unspecified "foreign partners."
The army called it "personal enrichment."
A separate investigation found the IDF ran a covert psyop disguised as a fact-checking nonprofit between 2023 and 2024.
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