say state news and decision from asian about the campaign are surging on social media reporter frederica baggio joins me now with this story for the week of this seems to be an increasingly powerful weapon in politics no matter where you were what is the exact extent of the problem in israel well michael observers have been warning of an exponential increase in the circulation of fulsome from ation ever since the beginning of the political campaigning of the election campaigning in january and one recent example just from last week when an israeli social media watchdog known as the big butts project they published a report saying they found evidence of and ongoing this information campaign against particularly against its own yahoo his main opponent benny gantz and we're talking about one hundred thirty thousand tweets that were coming from about five hundred ten yahoo twitter accounts and these accounts were spreading false rumors exactly about guns and things like claiming for example that he is mentally ill claiming that he has an affair even making claims about sexual misconduct all of whic