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Lee Fang
Personal blog · leefang.com/ppoliticswriting
Lee Fang's personal blog at leefang.com covers politics and writing. Since 2023, 20 different Hacker News readers have linked it 26 times, most often “The Pro-Israel Information War”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-02-09, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (12) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN commenters link Lee Fang's Substack posts as related reporting on pro-Israel information networks, spyware, Big Tech hiring of H-1B workers, and media disputes such as the Taibbi-Hasan debate. The comments only cite or link them.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 12 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Investigations and observations about the public interest.
Most-linked posts?
- The Pro-Israel Information War5 people · 6 mentions · first linked 2023-12-14
- Private Spies Hired by FBI and Corporations Infiltrate Discord, Reddit, WhatsApp2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-05-24
- Big Tech Resumed Hiring Foreign Workers Just Weeks After Layoffs2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-05-16
- After Mass Layoffs, SV Renews Lobbying Biden to Lift Cap on Foreign Workers2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-06-12
What Hacker News says?
It obviously wasn't the top comment when I posted it. When I came into the discussion most were about not attributing it to the state in question despite no evidence either way, and downplaying it. And, the fact that my comment has come to the top means that it has seemingly resonated with a lot of users with similar experiences (~+70pts). If you do actually follow the topic very closely, or read one or two comments…
Comment linking /p/inside-the-pro-israel-information
on “EU parliament member hit by Israeli Candiru spyware”Submitted What Happened to Piracy? Copyright Enforcement Fades as AI Giants Rise as a story · 112 points
HN discussionThis piece might be relevant: https://www.leefang.com/p/inside-the-pro-israel-information
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on “EU parliament member hit by Israeli Candiru spyware”Submitted Big Tech Resumed Hiring Foreign Workers Just Weeks After Layoffs as a story · 60 points
HN discussionTwo other sets of powerful people in group chats doing bad things: - https://www.leefang.com/p/inside-the-pro-israel-information - https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2024/05/16/business-le...
Comment linking /p/inside-the-pro-israel-information
on “The group chats that changed America”Submitted Hacked Docs Reveal Israeli Plan to Evade U.S. Foreign Agent Law as a story · 16 points
HN discussionRelated: https://www.leefang.com/p/inside-the-pro-israel-information
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on “Wix employee sacked over criticism of Israel files unfair dismissal claim”Submitted The Pro-Israel Information War as a story · 11 points
HN discussionThis is a direct link to the article: https://www.leefang.com/p/big-tech-resumed-hiring-foreign-wo... The moneycontrol.com link is merely a summary of that.
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on “Google, Meta, Amazon hiring low-paid H1B workers after US layoffs”Submitted Moderna Is Spying on You as a story · 6 points
HN discussion> Israel paid an American lawyer for advice on how best to skirt some pesky American laws. Pesky American laws? You mean the law meant to prevent unknown foreign influence in our country? That’s what you describe as pesky? > By the low, low moral standards of American politics and corporations, it doesn't sound like Israel did anything particularly bad. And they even seem to have cared about being (just barely) on t…
Comment linking /p/leaked-israeli-docs-reveal-effort
on “Hacked Docs Reveal Israeli Plan to Evade U.S. Foreign Agent Law”Submitted Pentagon Report Predicts New Age of Covid Bioweapons and Brain Chip Warfare as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSince Hunter Biden is mentioned tangentially in the piece, this was published today by Lee Fang, another former Intercept contributor: https://www.leefang.com/p/emails-show-hunter-biden-hired-spe... Fang claims emails show Hunter Biden hired PR specialists to whitewash Wikipedia's coverage of him.
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on “Glenn Greenwald on Wikipedia's Neutrality”Submitted Emails Show Hunter Biden Hired Specialists to Quietly Airbrush Wikipedia as a story · 5 points
HN discussionThis is classic redirection tactics, exactly as Lee Fang exposed last week [1]. You talk about those wars, I'll support you. I'll talk about this one [1] https://www.leefang.com/p/inside-the-pro-israel-information
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on “I Can't Sleep”Submitted Why WikiLeaks Matters as a story · 4 points
HN discussionhttps://www.leefang.com/p/house-democrat-threatens-twitter > Taibbi has admitted mistaking CIS for CISA in a single tweet in one of his many threads, but his testimony to Congress was entirely different. Hasan deceptively conflated this quickly corrected tweet with Taibbi’s testimony. > But the evidence shows that Taibbi’s congressional remarks were correct. CIS and CISA collaborated with EIP on moderation requests,…
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on “YouTube Blocks Russell Brand from Making Money Through Its Platform”Submitted After Mass Layoffs, SV Renews Lobbying Biden to Lift Cap on Foreign Workers as a story · 4 points
HN discussionMehdi Hasan is proof that MSNBC can air someone who's as much of a shouty partisanship-addled blowhard as Fox's Sean Hannity. Investigative journalist Lee Fang goes deeper into Hasan's allegations about Taibbi – plus Hasan's history of plagiarism & viewpoint-flexible controversialism-for-pay at: https://www.leefang.com/p/mehdi-hasan-plagiarized-pro-spanki...
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on “First People Sickened by Covid-19 Were Chinese Scientists at Wuhan Institute”Submitted FBI Pressures on Social Media as a story · 4 points
HN discussionhttps://www.leefang.com/p/msnbcs-mehdi-hasan-gets-basic-fact... Maybe you're actually the one falling prey to false information, and harming others by spreading it. From the article: The Taibbi-Hasan debate speaks to the sorry state of affairs in the U.S. news media. Every journalist gets things wrong occasionally. Taibbi has conceded that he made an error in one of his tweets, though not in his congressional testim…
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on “First People Sickened by Covid-19 Were Chinese Scientists at Wuhan Institute”Submitted Escaping the Online Discourse to Burning Man, Then Escaping Burning Man as a story · 2 points
HN discussionThe American government, including the political, bureaucratic and the judicial sectors, seems quite eager to implement the Chinese system of mass surveillance and control of the population, and would do so immediately if given the chance. Incidentally, this warrantless camera surveillance of specific targets is fairly similar to the current practice of private companies engaging in surveillance of all kinds of onli…
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on “SCOTUS Declines to Hear Challenge to Warrantless Pole Camera Surveillance”Submitted NewsGuard's For-Profit Censorship Model Merges Government and Corporate Power as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Silicon Valley Renews Lobbying Biden to Lift Cap on Foreign Workers as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Private Spies Hired by FBI and Corporations Infiltrate Discord, Reddit, WhatsApp as a story · 1 points
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