When Israel attacks Gaza City in August 2025 and the ORF also reports about it on Instagram, a flood of around 200 postings lands in the comments section almost at the same time ZiB-Post on Instagram. ORF journalists have examined more than six million posts on online offerings and identified bot attacks like this one and their starting points. It’s about “coordinated distortion” of public opinion, explains extremism researcher Julia Ebner in the ZiB 2.
