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Manufactured Consensus

Pro-Israel content doesn't trend by accident. Online tools chose which posts to push up and which critics to report for removal. Public filings show who is paid to run campaigns like these. Both trails lead back to the Israeli state.

Records FARA · Knesset · Accountant General · MFA · web archives Period Nov 2023 – Mar 2026 Data tables, documents and checksums Research in collaboration with Wallface

Tap a figure to see its source record · ₪ = new Israeli shekel · ceilings are maximums, not confirmed spend

Overview

The system, end to end

These pieces usually get reported one at a time: a contract here, a bot network there. Put side by side, they follow one pattern. Ministries set budgets and approve campaigns. Agencies turn that money into managed influencers and ad buys. Tools tell volunteers which posts to reply to and which to report. The results show up on the platforms as replies, boosts and takedown reports. Each layer below is documented. Not every link between layers is a single contract; Part II says which records connect which pieces.

1 · The statesets budgets, approves campaigns
Ministry of Foreign AffairsDiaspora MinistryLapam (Gov't Advertising)National Public Diplomacy DirectorateIDF Spokesperson
2 · The agenciescontract talent, buy media · FARA-filed
HavasClock Tower XSKDK / StagwellL.D.R.SDavis MediaHebrew Ventures
3 · The toolspick posts, supply replies, queue reports
Words of IronMooversSocial WatchIronTruthBot
4 · The platformswhere the "consensus" appears
XInstagramTikTokYouTubeLinkedInFacebook

The Diaspora Ministry's own Iron Web directory lists Words of Iron among its 59 resources (the Ministry notes that listed resources are independently operated). Israel Tech Guard lists Words of Iron among its projects and says it works "in close cooperation with the IDF and security services". Sources: Iron Web, Israel Tech Guard.

Part I

The actions: amplify, then report

Three tools, one playbook: Words of Iron, Moovers and Israel Tech Guard's Social Watch. The tools' own pages and data feeds were saved by the Internet Archive, so most of the scale here is counted straight from what they published.

Amplify

  • Posts were selected for boosting.Archive Words of Iron's saved X feeds list 205 distinct posts to boost, including 15 by Aviva Klompas, 8 by Hen Mazzig and 7 by StandWithUs. An archived copy of Moovers' app data holds 21 X comment tasks. Sources: the archived lists, Moovers data.
  • Replies came pre-written.Archive Words of Iron opened X's reply box already filled with one of 13 prepared messages and the tags #bringthemhome#wordsofiron. Its browser extension, the Words of Iron Automation Tool, had an "Autopilot" mode and contained code to click X's reply-send, like and bookmark buttons. Sources: page code, extension listing.
  • The same words appear on X.Research sample In a sample of 15 selected posts, researchers found 521 replies from 153 accounts that contain a prepared message in full, under 14 of the 15 posts. 490 are word for word. See the proof.

Report

  • Critics were queued for removal.Archive Words of Iron's saved report lists contain 219 distinct X posts plus one profile; Moovers adds one more post, for 220. They include 17 posts by DrLoupis and 9 by ShaykhSulaiman. See the proof.
  • A report category was prescribed.Archive Moovers' app defined a report task as reporting "negative / anti-Israeli" content and labelled the X category to use: "Violent & hateful entities". Source: app code.
  • The tools kept score.Archive Words of Iron awarded two progress points for each action, up to ten a day, shown to users as a percentage gauge. In an archived Moovers app response from 23 April 2024, 31 of the 55 X activity records are report actions aimed at the same single post. Sources: page code, Moovers data.
  • Boost it, and report it, 47 seconds apart.Archive One Mario Nawfal post sits in both lists: in the boost feed captured at 05:53:52 UTC on 2 November 2023 and the report feed captured at 05:54:39. On 14 November 2023 the report feed listed 16 posts three times each. Sources: boost feed, report feed.

Escalation · from reporting to employers

Israel Tech Guard's Social Watch page describes an AI bot that flags content it classifies as malicious, then notifies the author's employer and/or the social-media platform about an alleged policy violation. Source: Social Watch page.

Part II

The money and the state

The money shows up in the paperwork. These figures come from US Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA) filings, Knesset Finance Committee records, and Israeli government procurement approvals. Shekel budgets and dollar contracts are in separate tables so the bars compare like with like.

Israeli government budgets · ₪

Approved byGoes toAmountWhenForSource
Knesset Finance CtteeForeign Ministry≈₪150,000,0001 Dec 2025Moved from higher education: ₪90M digital campaigns via Lapam, ₪60M incoming delegations incl. influencersKNESSET 775
LapamGoogle DV360₪90,000,00017 Jun 2025Public-diplomacy campaigns after "Rising Lion", plus ongoing activity · ceilingPROTOCOL 5451
LapamYouTube₪60,000,00017 Jun 2025Same approval · ceilingPROTOCOL 5451
LapamX (Twitter)₪10,000,00017 Jun 2025Same approval · ceilingPROTOCOL 5451
LapamOutbrain / Teads₪7,000,00017 Jun 2025Same approval · joint ceilingPROTOCOL 5451
Lapam
for the Prime Minister's Office
Grey Content₪1,656,762Mar 2026Domestic: an emergency "national resilience" campaign on Israeli TV during the "Roar of the Lion" war. ₪1,301,762 media, ₪355,000 production · excl. VATLAPAM 43/3/26

Contracts and delegation grants · $

Paid byGoes toAmountWhenForSource
Havas Media Germany
for the State of Israel
Clock Tower X LLC · Brad Parscale$15,000,000Oct 2025–Mar 2026Received, in six payments. Nationwide US online campaign "to combat antisemitism": nine .org websites, two video channels and two further sitesFARA 7649
MFAEagles' Wingsup to $700,000Sep 2025MFA share of a ~$1.41M programme: church conventions, a Capitol Hill event, Awake Jerusalem, a 20-concert tourMFA 366/2025
Gov. of IsraelSKDK / Stagwell / Havas$600,000Apr 2025–Mar 2026Contract value of an agency-services schedule, including a bot-based programme that "floods the zone" on Instagram, TikTok, LinkedIn, YouTubeFARA 7552
MFAAmerica-Israel Friendship Leagueup to $150,000Sep 2025Five delegations at up to $30,000 each; participants include elected officials, legislators and school-district headsMFA 290/2025
MFAIsrael365 · Hebrew Ventures LLCup to $70,000Aug 2025"America First MAGA Influencer Trip", 16 people, 9–18 Aug: $32,000 flights, $38,000 in-countryMFA 294/2025
Gov. of IsraelDavis Media$10,000/mo +15%from Feb 2024Manage up to 10 talents; weekly status calls with the "Moovers influencer management team"FARA 7662

Received, not just approved. Clock Tower X reported $15,000,000 received and $13,061,802.50 spent in six months, the largest sum on this page. Two later Havas orders book a further $40,500,000, at $4,500,000 a month for "Digital Advertising" from April to December 2026 (order of 2 June, order of 24 September). An order is not a payment; later filings will show what was received. With the $15,000,000 received, that makes $55,500,000 received or ordered, the same total The Leah Files reported. FARA forms state fees of $123,500 for Davis Media's L.D.R.S relationship (form) and $38,000 for its Havas relationship (form), and a Havas order lists $8,000 for "Swords of Iron" promotion in late January 2024 (order). SKDK reported $150,000 received from Israel's Foreign Ministry in three $50,000 payments; its agreement with the Ministry was terminated on 29 August 2025 (filing).

The state links are on the record

The Diaspora Ministry's Iron Web directory lists Words of Iron. Israel Tech Guard lists Words of Iron among its projects and says it works in close cooperation with the IDF and security services. Sources: Iron Web, Israel Tech Guard.

OCT7's archived "with us" logo carousel placed the Diaspora Ministry, Words of Iron and IronTruthBot together. Israeli Spirit's partner list includes five national state bodies: the Diaspora Ministry, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Education Ministry, IDF Spokesperson and National Public Diplomacy Directorate. Sources: OCT7, Israeli Spirit.

Scope

What this report shows, and what it doesn't

It establishes

  • Named tools selected specific posts to boost and specific accounts to report.
  • Their prepared replies appear on X word for word.
  • Israeli state bodies approved the budgets, and agencies filed the contracts under US law.
  • The organisations around the tools name state bodies as partners or list the tools themselves.
  • A US-facing network of websites and video channels was produced for the Israeli state through a global advertising group, and registered as foreign-agent work.

It does not claim

  • That every pro-Israel post is paid or automated.
  • That any one budget line paid for Words of Iron. The records show the same state bodies on both sides, not a single invoice.
  • That an approved ceiling was fully spent. A ceiling is a maximum.
  • That 521 is the total. It is one 15-post sample.
  • That any named person broke a law. Disclosed paid advocacy can be lawful.

The proof

Where each headline figure comes from

Every figure at the top of this page links here. Each block shows the record, quotes it, and says what you can check for yourself.

521replies repeating a prepared messageResearch sample · partly checkable

Researchers took 15 posts that Words of Iron had selected for replies and collected the replies under them. 521 replies, from 153 accounts, contain one of the tool's prepared messages in full, under 14 of the 15 posts. Of these, 490 match the prepared text word for word, 26 add extra words, and 5 use a different hashtag arrangement.

Check it yourself

  • The prepared messages are in Words of Iron's own page code, preserved by the Internet Archive: archived page code, 23 Feb 2024.
  • The Atlantic Council's DFRLab, working separately, counted more than 40,000 uses of the campaign hashtag by more than 5,000 accounts between 10 October 2023 and 10 March 2024, about 98% of them replies: DFRLab, 11 June 2024.

Limit: the 521 count comes from the researchers' reply collection. Their report, Words of Iron and the Wider Online Advocacy System, publishes the totals for this sample, not the individual replies, so this page does not list them.

220posts put on report listsRecounted from public archives

Words of Iron served its report list from a public address on its own site. The Internet Archive saved that list three times. We downloaded each saved copy and counted the distinct X posts in it. None appears in more than one copy, so they add up to 219. An archived response of the Moovers app adds one more report target, for 220.

Saved copyEntriesDistinct posts
2 Nov 2023, 05:54 UTC5853
14 Nov 2023, 20:52 UTC10066
30 Jul 2024, 06:05 UTC100100
Words of Iron, all three copies219
Plus Moovers' report target220

Open any link to see the list as the tool served it. Each entry is a link to an X post. The 14 November copy also lists one X profile rather than a post; it is counted separately as "plus one profile".

Limit: the Moovers target is not in the three Words of Iron lists above. It comes from an archived Moovers app response of 23 April 2024, in which 31 report actions point at that one post. Accounts that appear to be private individuals are not named on this page.

$15Mto Brad Parscale's firm, for Israel's US campaignOfficial filing

Clock Tower X LLC of Medina, Ohio, whose owner the filing names as Bradley Parscale, is registered under the US Foreign Agents Registration Act as registrant 7649. Its supplemental statement for the six months ending 31 March 2026 reports $15,000,000 received and $13,061,802.50 spent. The filing says in its own words what the work was:

"Registrant has provide strategic communications, planning, and media services in support of Havas' engagement by the State of Israel to develop and execute a nationwide media campaign in the United States to combat antisemitism. Registrant has created websites, including regular blog and content updates; social media, including videos; and other content debunking misinformation about the state of Israel. Registrant's efforts have been exclusively conducted via online media."

Clock Tower X LLC, answer to Item 12, transcribed as filed

The money arrived from Havas Media Germany GmbH in six payments:

Date receivedFromAmount ($)
24 Oct 2025Havas Media Germany GmbH1,500,000
17 Nov 2025Havas Media Germany GmbH1,500,000
11 Dec 2025Havas Media Germany GmbH3,000,000
19 Dec 2025Havas Media Germany GmbH3,000,000
5 Feb 2026Havas Media Germany GmbH3,000,000
3 Mar 2026Havas Media Germany GmbH3,000,000
Total received15,000,000

What it was spent on, in the filing's own categories. The 62 listed payments add up to the total the filing itself reports, to the cent:

Purpose, as filedPaymentsAmount ($)
Direct Engagement176,500,000.00
Media Placement134,435,000.00
Consulting8612,500.00
Advertising5566,002.50
Content Creation7466,800.00
Polling4167,500.00
Content Optimization3150,000.00
Sentiment Analytics3136,000.00
Advertisment edits123,000.00
Splash Page Development15,000.00
Total disbursed6213,061,802.50

The recipients named in the filing are Portman Road Strategies, Sparkfire Technologies, Three Tech Managed Services, Salem Media Representatives, Eyesover LLC, Situation Management Group, Stratus Intelligence and SEO Engine. All 17 "Direct Engagement" payments ($6,500,000) went to Sparkfire Technologies and all 13 "Media Placement" payments ($4,435,000) to Portman Road Strategies. Salem Media Representatives was paid for "Advertising"; Eyesover for "Sentiment Analytics". Every payment is in the disbursements table.

The filing also lists the channels used and logs 372 dated items of disseminated material between 20 October 2025 and 31 March 2026, each one recorded with the purpose "Combat Anti-Semitism" and the contact "Public: Websites" (315) or "Public/Internet" (57). All 372, with their addresses, are in the log table:

ChannelWhat it presents itself as
allyvia.orgUS-Israel Alliance: News, Analysis, and Advocacy
paxpoint.orgA New Approach to Israeli-Palestinian Peace
factsignal.orgFacts, Evidence & Analysis on Israel and the Middle East
justorium.orgJustice and Law in Defense of Freedom
cognitura.orgRadicalization Research and Education
culturavia.orgUS and Israel Cultural Connections
innovascope.orgUS & Israel Innovation Partnership
compassionpulse.orgCompassion and Courage in Conflict
econora.orgEconomics coverage
thetruthaboutiran.comIran
feedingyoufiction.comMedia criticism
YouTube @AlliesforPeaceVideo
Rumble AlliesForPeaceVideo

This is disclosed work, and the sites say so. Each one carries the statement the Act requires:

"This material is distributed by Clock Tower X LLC on behalf of the State of Israel. Additional information is available at the Department of Justice, Washington, DC."

Footer of allyvia.org, and the same wording on the others

Check it yourself

  • The filing itself, 46 pages, on the Justice Department's FARA e-file site: registrant 7649, supplemental statement filed 18 May 2026. The money is in Item 14(a) on page 42, the spending in Item 15(a) on pages 43-45, the description in Item 12 on page 12, and the channel list in Item 18 on page 46.
  • A saved copy, if the original moves: Internet Archive capture.
  • Open any channel above and scroll to the footer to find the disclosure.

Note: the same filing lists the State of Israel directly as a second foreign principal, and says of it: "Registration for this principal was in error. Amendment was filed and there were no receipts under this registration." The $15,000,000 was reported under the Havas Media Network registration, not that one. The filing covers six months only, so it is not a total for the campaign: two later Havas orders book a further $40,500,000 for April to December 2026.

₪167Mapproved for four ad platformsOfficial document

Accountant General, exemption committee, protocol 5451, decided 17 June 2025 and digitally signed 23 June 2025. The requesting office is the Government Advertising Agency (Lapam). Subject: "engagement with media suppliers for public-diplomacy campaigns".

SupplierPeriodApproved amount (₪)
Google DV36017 Jun – 31 Dec 202590,000,000
YouTube17 Jun – 31 Dec 202560,000,000
Twitter (X)17 Jun – 31 Dec 202510,000,000
Outbrain / Teads17 Jun – 31 Dec 20257,000,000
Total approved ceilings167,000,000

לשכת הפרסום הממשלתי (להלן - לפ"מ) מבקשת להתקשר עם גוגל, אאוטבריין וטוויטר (להלן – הספקים) עבור קמפייני הסברה.

"The Government Advertising Agency (Lapam) requests to engage Google, Outbrain and Twitter (the suppliers) for public-diplomacy campaigns."

יצוין כי הבקשה עבור קמפיינים בעקבות מבצע "עם כלביא" וכן עבור הפעילות השוטפת.

"The request is for campaigns following Operation 'Rising Lion' and for ongoing activity."

Protocol 5451, "Discussion and reasons", items 1 and 6

Protocol 5451 page 1: committee details and approved amounts for Google DV360 (90,000,000) and YouTube (60,000,000)
Page 1 · Google DV360, YouTube, Outbrain/Teads
Protocol 5451 page 2: Outbrain/Teads 7,000,000, Twitter 10,000,000, reasons and digital signature dated 23.06.2025
Page 2 · Twitter, reasons, signature
₪150Mmoved from higher education to public diplomacyParliamentary transcript

Knesset Finance Committee, protocol 775, Monday 1 December 2025. Agenda: changes to the 2025 budget, transfer 189–190, Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

היא מחולקת ל-90 מיליון ש"ח לקמפיינים להסברה ועוד 60 מיליון שח למשלחות בינלאומיות.

"It is divided into 90 million shekels for public-diplomacy campaigns and another 60 million for international delegations."

Gad Rahmani, presenting the transfer

המקור הוא מסעיף 21, סעיף השכלה גבוהה.

"The source is section 21, the higher-education section."

Gad Rahmani, asked where the money comes from

מדובר על קמפיינים דיגיטליים. [...] כל 90 מיליון עוברים דרך לפ"ם. דרכם אנחנו מוציאים קמפיינים דיגיטליים.

"These are digital campaigns. [...] All 90 million go through Lapam. Through them we run digital campaigns."

Sigalit Shai, Foreign Ministry budget officer

משלחות שמגיעות לארץ, זה רק משלחות נכנסות. כל מיני משלחות, משלחות של משפיענים

"Delegations that come to Israel, only incoming delegations. All kinds of delegations, delegations of influencers."

Sigalit Shai, asked about the 60 million

Note: the transcript's opening sentence writes the amount as “150 אלפי ש״ח”, which would mean thousands. The same sentence splits it into 90 million and 60 million, and committee members refer to "150 million shekels" several times later in the meeting.

Data

Download the evidence

Every table on this page, the full Clock Tower X filing rebuilt row by row, and the original documents, unchanged. Each original was checked against the copy on its official server and is byte-identical. The README explains every column, how the tables were checked and what was left out.

COMPLETE PACKAGE · ZIP · 74 KB README, every table and the checksums; the 15 documents are listed below. SHA-256 c57c2197f011ac390eb4ffa077393551768f7e315e430fce2dd7b196421ca807

README SHA256SUMS

Tables

TableWhat it holdsRowsFiles
Financial recordsEvery money figure on this page, one record each: payer, recipient, amount, what it measures, source.19CSV · 8 KB JSON · 14 KB
Clock Tower X paymentsThe 62 payments in Item 15(a): date, recipient, purpose and amount, as filed.62CSV · 6 KB JSON · 16 KB
Payments by firmThe 62 payments summed per recipient.8CSV · 1 KB JSON · 1 KB
Clock Tower X receiptsThe six payments from Havas Media Germany, $15,000,000 in total.6CSV · 1 KB JSON · 2 KB
Dissemination logThe 372 dated items in Item 12, with the address of each and how it was checked.372CSV · 149 KB JSON · 231 KB
ChannelsThe 13 channels in Item 18 and the disclosure each one carries.13CSV · 4 KB JSON · 6 KB
Words of Iron list copiesThe six archived report and boost lists, with counts. Counts only.6CSV · 1 KB JSON · 3 KB
Source registerEvery source: original address, our unchanged copy and its SHA-256.38CSV · 14 KB JSON · 20 KB

Original documents

DocumentFromFile
Clock Tower X, supplemental statement, filed 18 May 2026FARA 7649PDF · 12.2 MB
Havas order, April to October 2026, filed 7 June 2026FARA 7649PDF · 1.4 MB
Havas order, November and December 2026, filed 5 October 2026FARA 7649PDF · 1.4 MB
Davis Media agreement with L.D.R.SFARA 7662PDF · 3.0 MB
Davis Media, Havas order, Swords of IronFARA 7662PDF · 2.4 MB
Davis Media short form, L.D.R.S feeFARA 7662PDF · 950 KB
Davis Media short form, Havas feeFARA 7662PDF · 951 KB
SKDK agency-services scheduleFARA 7552PDF · 3.9 MB
SKDK supplemental statementFARA 7552PDF · 5.9 MB
Protocol 5451, ad-platform ceilings (Hebrew)mr.gov.ilPDF · 35 KB
Foreign Ministry protocol 294/2025, Israel365 trip (Hebrew)mr.gov.ilPDF · 460 KB
Foreign Ministry protocol 366/2025, Eagles' Wings (Hebrew)mr.gov.ilPDF · 969 KB
Foreign Ministry protocol 290/2025, AIFL delegations (Hebrew)mr.gov.ilPDF · 1.9 MB
Lapam protocol 43/3/26, Grey Content (Hebrew)mr.gov.ilPDF · 619 KB
Knesset Finance Committee protocol 775, transcript (Hebrew)Open KnessetTXT · 58 KB

How to cite

"Manufactured Consensus." Who Funded Genocide. https://whofundedgenocide.com/manufacturedconsensus/ (mirror: https://archivegenocide.com/manufacturedconsensus/). Research in collaboration with Wallface.

Check a download by comparing its SHA-256 with SHA256SUMS.txt. Amounts in the financial records measure different things (ceilings, orders, contracts, receipts) and should not be added together.

Sources

How we know this

Figures come from US Department of Justice FARA registrations and supplemental statements (registrants include 7649, Clock Tower X LLC); Knesset Finance Committee transcripts; Israeli government procurement approvals from the Accountant General, Lapam and the Foreign Ministry; and the Internet Archive's saved copies of the tools' own pages and data feeds. The headline figures are documented in the proof section above, and every source is listed with its address and checksum in the source register.

Other sources: the researchers' report and evidence package, Words of Iron and the Wider Online Advocacy System (anonymous), for leads and the reply sample; DFRLab's study of Words of Iron; The Leah Files, whose $55.5M total we confirmed from the FARA filings; and the thirteen Clock Tower X channels' own pages, their sitemaps and the YouTube and Rumble video pages, which we used to check every address in the filing's log. Each is in the source register with what we used it for.

Research in collaboration with Wallface.

This page names organisations, contracts, public officials and public figures acting in public roles. It does not name accounts that appear to belong to private individuals, and it does not publish anyone's home address or private contact details.