The Megaphone desktop tool was a Windows "action alert" tool developed by Give Israel Your United Support (GIYUS) and distributed by World Union of Jewish Students, World Jewish Congress, The Jewish Agency for Israel, World Zionist Organization, StandWithUs, Hasbara fellowships, HonestReporting, and other pro-Israel public relations organizations. The tool was released in July during the 2006 Lebanon War. By June 2011, the tool was no longer available through the GIYUS website. An RSS newsfeed is available.[1][2][3][4][5][6][7]
The Megaphone Desktop Tool acted as a wrapper around an RSS feed from the GIYUS website. Originally, it gave the user the option of going to a particular site with a poll, and if the user chooses to go to the site, the software then casts a vote automatically, when this is technically feasible, but that feature had been discontinued.
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Giyus tries to save you the time and effort of locating the voting form inside the website, a seemingly simple task that may prove quite confusing at certain sites. Whenever we technically can we direct you straight to the voting action. If you have arrived at the poll results, it means that you were directed straight to the voting action and have already successfully voted. If for some reason you don't care to vote, you can always use the "No Thanks" link in the article alert popup.[8]
In later versions, the voting concept was removed entirely and the tool directed users to anti-Israel websites, giving users and option click a button labeled "act now!" which would direct the user to a poll or email address.
The software license provides for remote updates: "You understand and agree that Giyus.Org may provide updates, patches and/or new versions of the Software from time to time, including automatic updates that will be installed on your computer, with notice to You, as needed to continue to use the Services, and You hereby authorize such installations."[9]
According to The Jerusalem Post, Amir Gissin, head of the Public Affairs Department of the Foreign Ministry of Israel, has expressed support for the tool's use. "The Foreign Ministry itself is now pushing the idea, urging supporters of Israel everywhere to become cyberspace soldiers in the new battleground for Israel's image." it reports.[10]Computing website The Register has described use of the software as "highly organised mass manipulation of technologies which are supposed to be democratising" and claimed Megaphone is "effectively a high-tech exercise in ballot-stuffing"[11] The Register also reported that the BBC History magazine website "noticed an upsurge in voting on whether holocaust denial should be a criminal offence in Britain. But the closing date had already passed and the result had already been published, so the votes were invalid anyway." Stewart Purvis, former editor-in-chief of ITN, has noted that an independent panel reviewing the BBC's Israeli-Palestinian coverage received a large number of letters from North America which accused the BBC of being anti-Israeli. He states there was evidence of "pressure group involvement".[12]
Following the success of the Megaphone tool, the developers formed the company Collactive.[13] In 2007, Collactive released their "Web Assistant", a general-purpose commercial version of the Megaphone tool.[14]
The tool has received a wide range of reactions, from praise to criticism. Amir Gissin, head of the Public Affairs Department of the Israeli Foreign Ministry, praised the tool,[citation needed] noting its efficacy during the Adnan Hajj photographs controversy in obtaining an admission from the Reuters news agency that a photograph by Adnan Hajj had been improperly edited with photo editing software.[10] The tool has similarly been praised by a number of pro-Israel organizations[citation needed] for helping to fight what they perceive to be anti-Israel media bias. At the same time, it has been criticized by Independent Television News, and others for stuffing the ballot of online polls, generating excessive comments and 'spam' on internet message boards, and stifling online discussion and what is seen by some as a mass, participatory form of propaganda.[11]
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We are testing these capabilities with a select number of Megaphone publishers based in various global markets. When the streaming-powered tools are launched in general availability, they will be available globally.
If you have not been notified about your participation in our testing program but are interested in partnering with Megaphone to test these tools, please reach out to your Megaphone account representative to assess this opportunity.
Please reach out to your Megaphone representative to disable all streaming-based tools. Please note that once the tools have been disabled, video content will no longer be accessible on the platform and only the audio-only version of the episode will be available. In addition, your streaming-based stats will also no longer be available.
Spotify users will be able to click on a video episode and see the uploaded video content on Spotify. If the content is later backgrounded, the content will continue to play but will transition to audio-only.
Yes, but only the audio version. The audio version of the video episode uploaded will be distributed across other podcast players. For any video episode content that is uploaded and distributed to Spotify, we will extract the audio component and distribute to all other hosting platforms. This step is fully automated by Megaphone and you will not need to complete any other steps to distribute the episode to other listening platforms.
Yes. You can add ad locations to video content in the exact same way that you would insert ad locations with audio-only content. Once the content is done processing, you will be taken to a page to insert ad locations within an audio wave version of the content. Please note that we do not currently support the ability to see the video content as you insert your ad locations.
Yes. Similar to your audio-only content, you will be able to monetize your Spotify video content with both your own direct sales efforts and/or the Spotify Audience Network. Please note that you will not be able to specifically target video content in your campaigns unless you explicitly select the episodes or podcasts that you have identified as video episodes/podcasts.
Both video and audio content will be available on mobile, desktop, tablet, web, and connected devices. However, once streaming-enabled, ads in both audio and video content will only currently be inserted in mobile, desktop, tablet, and web devices. We are planning to introduce ads into connected devices in the future.
When you turn on our streaming-powered tools, all of your on-Spotify data will now be measured on a streaming-basis instead of a download-basis. This will mean that we will no longer be using RSS-based downloads as a basis for your on-Spotify data and analytics.
Megaphone publishers who have streaming-powered tools activated will now be able to attach a clickable display unit to their promos that are delivered on Spotify. This will show a visual ad unit while the promo ad plays, so that users can directly click through to the promoted podcast content.
When a user reaches an ad break while consuming a podcast on Spotify and receives your promo, they'll receive a companion image plus a footer with a clickable call to action that directs them to your promoted podcast page on Spotify. These remain on screen as long as the user continues to listen to your promo audio.
No. You will only be able to attach a clickable display unit to promos that promote shows within your network. At this time, clickable promos will only be delivered within other streaming-enabled podcasts in your network.
Thanks to Frankie who pointed me at Tom who had been pointed by Simon to the Megaphone software being used by GIYUS to direct people to online votes to register pro-Israeli opinions. I was immediately interested in it as I worked for about three years at the BBC on their online voting back-end systems. Whilst a lot of people have got rather hot under the collar about it, it doesn't seem to me to be as near to bringing about the end of online civilisation as we know it as some people have suggested.
In fact the whole GIYUS site is set up as one giant lobbying machine, directing people to messageboards with boilerplate ideas about what to write, and hijacking the 'send-to-a-friend' functionality of other sites to encourage users to lobby third parties like the UN.
The interactivity of the internet, and the ability for people to become more pro-actively engaged with politics, debate, and make politicians more accountable for their actions are generally seen as "a good thing" - unless, it seems, you happen to disagree with the opinions being propagated. Having said that, working next to the BBC's community teams, I well understand that a herd of organised trolls sweeping majestically across the internet plains puts a lot of strain on communities and community moderation systems.
Of course, one of the other fundamental problems here is people taking at face value opinion polls on web sites which can never be representative, and people misunderstand the significance placed in online polls by broadcasters. One such example is quoted on Another Green World, which poses the fear that manipulating online votes will in turn manipulate the broadcast news stream:
That might be the case for other broadcasters - but the BBC has extremely stringent guidelines about how web based polls can be referred to in programmes - and I would be extremely surprised to see any figures from an online poll read out in the news on such a contentious issue. The BBC guidelines on online votes state: 152ee80cbc
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