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A Tragic Hanukkah In Sydney...
It has never been cheaper to spread hate and chaos and no price is too high to buy influence and hate
Howard Lindzon
December 14, 2025
Good morning…
I woke to a text from my friend Raja about the terrorist attack launched on Jewish people celebrating Hanukkah on a Bondi beach in Sydney, Australia.
I opened up Twitter to try and piece some of what happened together.
If you click through this tweet below, you can watch an interview at the scene from Mr. Ostrovsky who was grazed by a bullet to the head.
A brave Australian (Muslim) showed no hesitation in disarming one of the terrorists…
Over here in ‘paid for by Qatar’ American media promoted on Twitter is Fukker Tarlson - American Cancer - spreading falsehoods and hate every day (when not selling nicotine pouches). He runs under cover of Twitter, Qatar and grifters like Chamath who have them on their pods and stages calling him an ‘American Treasure’. Carlson and Chamath are despicable.
Meanwhile, nobody should be ‘shocked’ by what happened in Sydney. Here is Sydney on October 9, 2023 with demonstrations calling for the ‘gassing of Jews’. Interesting because these same people likely deny the Holocaust.
Australia’s tolerance of this hate, along with poor policies led to yesterday…
Australia has known who their leader Anthony Albanese is from a young age…a miserable anti-semite.
This rabbi paid the ultimate price…
As I assume markets are rigged, I assume every leader has been bought and paid for.
I wish I could be less cynical about it.
As further proof of the problems at hand…have a read below about how cheap it is to melt people’s brains. Share it and explain to your kids that most of what they are reading in their social feeds is misinformation…
For the first time, the Cambridge Online Trust and Safety Index (COTSI) allows the global community to monitor real-time market data for the “online manipulation economy”: the SIM farms that mass-produce fake accounts for scammers and social bots.
These markets openly sell SMS message verifications for fake profiles across hundreds of sites, providing a service for “inauthentic activity” ranging from vanity metrics boosts and rage-bait accounts to coordinated influence campaigns.
A new analysis using twelve months of COTSI data, published in the journal Science, shows that verifying fake accounts for use in the US and UK is almost as cheap as in Russia, while Japan and Australia have high prices due to SIM costs and photo ID rules.
The average price of SMS verification for an online platform during the year-long study period running to July 2025 was $4.93 in Japan and $3.24 in Australia, yet just a fraction of that in the US ($0.26), UK ($0.10) and Russia ($0.08).*
The research also reveals that prices for fake accounts on Telegram and WhatsApp appear to spike in countries about to have national elections, suggesting a surge in demand due to “influence operations”.
The COTSI team, based in Cambridge’s Social Decision-Making Lab, includes experts in misinformation and cryptocurrency. They argue that SIM card regulation could help “disincentivise” online manipulation, and say their tool can be used to test policy interventions the world over.
The team suggest that platforms should add labels showing an account’s country of origin for transparency, as recently done on X, but also point out such measures can be circumvented – a service provided by many vendors in the study.
We are in an era where there is no price too high that Qatar or any of the US and or Jewish enemies can afford to purchase. We are also in an era where it has never been cheaper to spread misinformation and hate.
This is a hellish combination.
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