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Jack Poulson
Personal blog · jackpoulson.substack.compoliticssecurity
Jack Poulson writes All-Source Intelligence, a personal blog at jackpoulson.substack.com about politics and security. Since 2023, 24 different Hacker News readers have linked it 31 times, most often “The pro-Israel information war”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-28, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (13) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN commenters link Jack Poulson's Substack for reporting on Israel-related influence campaigns, tech-industry and corporate stories, and gig-work and data-company coverage. One commenter calls one piece a great write-up.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 13 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
A newsletter on technology and national security.
Most-linked posts?
- The pro-Israel information war6 people · 7 mentions · first linked 2023-12-08
- /p/the-covert-gig-work-surveillance3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2025-01-26
- AI robotics company hired two separate firms to suppress independent reporting2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-03-06
- Lockheed is now tracking phones and walkie-talkies from space2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-11-18
- When DEF CON partners with the U.S. Army2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-08-11
What Hacker News says?
It’s not only about suppression; it’s about cultivating fear around expressing your opinions. There are groups actively working to have individuals fired for voicing support for Palestine. For instance, a woman wrote “Freedom for Palestine” in Gaelic on LinkedIn, prompting a group of Israelis in a WhatsApp chat to actively coordinate efforts to get her fired. The General Manager of Wix, Batsheva (Levine) Moshe, resp…
Comment linking /p/inside-the-pro-israel-information
on “Leaked data reveals Israeli govt campaign to remove pro-Palestine posts on Meta”Submitted When DEF CON partners with the U.S. Army as a story · 213 points
HN discussion>account created 1 hour ago Nice. https://jackpoulson.substack.com/p/inside-the-pro-israel-inf...
Comment linking /p/inside-the-pro-israel-information
on “Iran school bombing: grounds to believe US was behind atrocity, UN finds”Submitted Lockheed is now tracking phones and walkie-talkies from space as a story · 77 points
HN discussionIt would be such a shame if this went viral. Before today I did not know who Maury Blackman was. I now know that he was arrested for domestic violence in 2021. Here is the original news report: https://jackpoulson.substack.com/p/the-covert-gig-work-surve...
Comment linking /p/the-covert-gig-work-surveillance
on “Former tech CEO suing to get the record of his arrest removed from the internet”Submitted The pro-Israel information war as a story · 23 points
HN discussionthere's a lot of z!onists on hacker news if you want to see why their tribe was kicked out of nations over 200 times, just read the talmud it states clearly multiple times: non-tribe people are cattle (below and worth much less than the tribe people in every way), to be enslaved once their messiah returns. its quite disgusting. once you read excerpts from the talmud, you see the (J) ...ewws in a different light and…
Comment linking /p/inside-the-pro-israel-information
on “Paul Graham's Twitter account targeted by IDF”Submitted The dirty tricks of reputation management: from PI to sabotaging Google Search as a story · 14 points
HN discussionA great write-up related to that: https://jackpoulson.substack.com/p/inside-the-pro-israel-inf...
Comment linking /p/inside-the-pro-israel-information
on “Paul Graham's Twitter account targeted by IDF”Submitted Israel expanded propaganda contract with Trump's former campaign manager as a story · 7 points
HN discussionShe definitely will win. https://www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employment/unemploymen... Can't dismiss people for: Religious or political opinions https://jackpoulson.substack.com/p/inside-the-pro-israel-inf... There's literally screenshots of WhatsApp messages from Wix’s General Manager for Israel, Batsheve Moshe saying "being taken care of" https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_pr...
Comment linking /p/inside-the-pro-israel-information
on “Wix employee sacked over criticism of Israel files unfair dismissal claim”Submitted British gov funded a plan for international censorship of critiques of NATO as a story · 6 points
HN discussionI've heard this story so many times, and I really want to know if anyone is actually using this technique to actually make decisions, or is it just basically the "hello world" of satellite data analysis (along with identifying aeroplanes)? The company that famously touted they were doing it, Orbital Insights [1], almost went bankrupt, and were sold for cents on the dollar [2] I'm in the EO industry, and it's a use c…
Comment linking /p/exclusive-google-backed-intelligence
on “Calculating Oil Storage Tank Occupancy with Help of Satellite Imagery”Submitted AI drone warfare contract 'Project Maven' silently erased from public record as a story · 5 points
HN discussionFor the record, this is in regards to someone named "Maury Blackman" and the ur-article is here: https://jackpoulson.substack.com/p/the-covert-gig-work-surve...
Comment linking /p/the-covert-gig-work-surveillance
on “Censorship Whac-A-Mole: Google search exploited to scrub article on SF tech exec”Submitted Private intelligence brought the Treasury Secy into contact with Epstein's web as a story · 4 points
HN discussionI think that's the one: https://jackpoulson.substack.com/p/lockheed-is-now-tracking-...
Comment linking /p/lockheed-is-now-tracking-phones-and
on “SpaceX Prepares to Comply with 'Lawful Intercepts' for Cellular Starlink System”Submitted AI robotics company hired two separate firms to suppress independent reporting as a story · 3 points
HN discussionRelevant: https://jackpoulson.substack.com/p/premise-data-confirms-sec...
Comment linking /p/premise-data-confirms-secret-military
on “Introducing DoorDash Tasks”Submitted Figure AI threatens lawsuit to suppress reporting as a story · 3 points
HN discussionInteresting. Seems similar to what Premise Data tried to do, and maybe would have succeeded had it not been for their slimeball CEO cratering their reputation https://jackpoulson.substack.com/p/the-covert-gig-work-surve...
Comment linking /p/the-covert-gig-work-surveillance
on “Introducing DoorDash Tasks”Submitted SEC acquiring AI agents to monitor phone locations, social media, credit headers as a story · 2 points
HN discussionForget The Grayzone , the story was first broken by: Dr. Jack Poulson ... completed his PhD in Computational and Applied Mathematics at UT Austin in 2012 before serving as an Assistant Professor of Computational Science and Engineering at Georgia Tech then as an Assistant Professor of Mathematics as Stanford University. After two years as a Research Scientist in Google’s AI division working on recommendation systems…
Comment linking /p/david-ellis-benny-gantz-anti-bds-black-cube
on a deleted threadSubmitted Google suspends ad account of Influencer used to recruit Iranians for Mossad as a story · 2 points
HN discussionaa.com.tr - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anadolu_Agency "is a state-run[1][2] news agency headquartered in Ankara, Turkey.[3]" The original source might be better? https://jackpoulson.substack.com/p/inside-the-pro-israel-inf...
Comment linking /p/inside-the-pro-israel-information
on a deleted threadSubmitted Head of CIA OSINT emphasizes centrality of Twitter and Telegram surveillance as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Tech companies are becoming increasingly responsive to wiretap demands as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted When Counterculture and Empire Merge as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Premise Data confirms secret intelligence contracts in court filing (2023) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted 'The Apps Are Not What They Seem' as a story · 1 points
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