Facebook Israel is preparing for the 2019 elections - hired additional lobbyists and expanded its government relations team
At Facebook Israel under the management of CEO Adi Sofer , is preparing for elections that will probably take place in April 2019. The garbage dump has learned that on Facebook they recently asked to expand the policy division headed by Jordana Cutler, with the hiring of additional lobbyists who will work alongside it In the name of Facebook Ireland and Facebook in the United States, in the corridors of the Knesset and in front of politicians and parties.
Critics in the world who attribute to Facebook blatant interference in democratic processes have led, among other things, to a worsening of the relationship between Facebook and Israeli politicians. As exposed at the landfill, at the height of the rift - at Facebook, Israel even threatened politicians with sanctions so as not to moderate the insults that these people spread on their pages. Headed by the same politicians - right-wingers like Regev and Hazan, who were warned by Cutler.
The rift between the right-wing bloc and Facebook is well felt. Katler, the policy director of Facebook Ireland and the US in Israel, who is also a lobbyist in the Knesset, was considered a close associate of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for a long time, and as a result the company provided relatively free speech and action. , There has been a critical turn, which recently led to the blocking of Yair Netanyahu.
According to company officials, in the coming election campaign, Facebook will not allow politicians like Netanyahu to express themselves unbridled on its platforms, and messages like "Arabs flock to the polls", which are perceived by the new Facebook strategy as polarizers, will lead for the first time in the history of blocking Israeli politicians during an election period.
Last week, Cutler gave her first television interview since taking office. The polished interview was part of Dror Globerman's "Next" program broadcast on Keshet broadcasts.