Nick Cleveland Stout
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 28 Jul
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And people that don't want to disclose are not going to.
That's exactly right.
And when I first published the story about influencers being paid by Israel, I also reached out.
I sent a letter to the Department of Justice and asked, hey, what's the deal with this?
Are you going to enforce the law in this case?
This firm is telling us.
You know, it's disclosing to you that there are influencers who are being paid by Israel and you aren't going to ask like who the influencers themselves are.
You know, if you're being paid on behalf of a foreign government to influence American public life, that should be disclosed.
Like the American public should know, you know, what.
What posts are being paid for it and what aren't you know, it's very basic You know understanding of just the the flow of information, you know the same way corporate sponsors disclose that their ads or if an influencer Has a partnership with a certain brand they'll disclose that we need that for if we have that for corporations We need that for foreign governments
You can follow me on Twitter or X at Nick underscore Cleveland S. You can also follow the Quincy Institute's work, Quincyinst.org, and check out my new report about Israeli influence called The Eighth Front.
Yeah, first of all, thanks so much for having me.
But that's exactly right, that about a billion dollars has been allocated for public diplomacy, Hasbara efforts abroad, not just in the US, but you can... I tracked about 100 million of those dollars has been spent under the Foreign Agents Registration Act, which is, as your viewers are probably well aware,
you know, this law that requires contractors, lobbyists of foreign governments to disclose what they're doing on behalf of foreign governments.
So yeah, it's a lot of money and it's being used for a lot of things, you know, influencing chatbots, paying influencers, you know, reaching out to evangelical Christians, you know, all kinds of things that we can get into.
That's exactly right.
This is a totally new strategy that was largely in response to, I think, them realizing that they needed to put their thumb on the scale in a more meaningful way, like after just the precipitous collapse of American public support for the U.S.-Israel relationship.
Whereas before, they could rely on those organizations that you're describing, like AIPAC, like Christians United for Israel, that are American-led, American-funded.
So now they have to actually – the Israeli government is actually having to hire a lot of people under Farah, which they didn't do before.
Yeah.
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