from UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world to world@lemmy.world on 11 Feb 23:43
https://lemmy.world/post/43029357
Google advertising transparency records show that a production company owned by Banks, Desi Banks Productions LLC, served a set of five Persian-language recruitment ads across at least 19 countries, including the U.S., Sweden, France, Germany, India, and numerous others across the Middle East and Africa.
The five ad campaigns have included both overt and deceptive redirections into recruitment pages purporting to be run by Israel’s foreign intelligence services, the Mossad. Others advertise lucrative, tax-free jobs at apparently fictitious international consulting firms.
The most aggressive campaign redirected users to the Mossad’s official, Persian-language recruitment form during the recent 12-day war between Israel and Iran, advising viewers to activate their virtual private network (VPN) before clicking. According to Google’s ad disclosure portal, this campaign was the sole instance of a Google ad directly linking to the Mossad’s official website, mossad.gov.il.
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