Netanyahu and Eisenkot Camps Flood X With AI Deepfakes Days Before Israeli Election

With Netanyahu and opposition leader Gadi Eisenkot in a virtual tie before Tuesday's Israeli general election, both camps are pushing AI-generated deepfake videos on X — including fabricated footage of Netanyahu confronting his pre-Oct 7, 2023 failures and material casting the opposition as sympathetic to Arab parties. Likud repurposed bots previously used against the Iranian government to boost pro-Netanyahu propaganda, and built 'Victory 26' to track and target non-voters after the Elections Committee restricted its earlier 'Elector' app over privacy concerns.