The media propaganda system is preparing for the fight of its life - the 2026 elections. It is coming at it completely differently than its people imagined three years ago • They failed to overthrow a government and bring an early election, and are now busy creating demoralization and 'influence operations' - and the polls have become a key propaganda tool • Faced with the 'mind engineering' press of the media and pollsters, Shlomo Filber chooses to stick to professional models and accurate, truthful data
That's it, I'm back in last place in my professional standing. Again, one against all - and this time in the polls.
Yesterday, in preparation for the final stretch of the elections, the media's "re-education" was completed. Those who had not yet aligned themselves on that channel were tossed out and replaced, and on the other channel they apparently internalized the message.
Now this All reviewers And I. That way it's easier for them to go personally, not professionally, and not for the first time.
For months now I've been getting up every morning, analyzing the data myself. Hours I've spent plowing through dozens of recent Excels, hundreds of Excels from recent years. I've run hundreds of thousands of lines of code. I pay a fortune to Claude, Gemini, Grok and Chet Gifiti - they all constantly check where I might be wrong and miscalculating the surveys. They constantly compare with the others, and up until this moment they haven't found a flaw. When they do - I'll report.
In fact, I've been working with exactly the same models for six years now, constantly improving them. The data I get is consistent and logical.
I didn't make an unusual and dramatic move that had never happened before, the others made it two and a half years ago. I try to give explanations, the others much less so.
This is not the first time, in the previous elections I also told my close associates a month before: "I wake up every morning feeling like two million pairs of eyes are stuck on my back." But I insisted on going on the air week after week and saying that the right would win in '62.
On the night of the samples, everyone straightened up. I actually had a moment of slight knee-jerk reaction...
Even at the end of 2016, with the fiber optic project as Director General of the Ministry of Communications, I finally found myself alone. Facing finance officials, MKs, lobbyists, attorneys, economists, and the media. That was enough for the attorneys to determine that I had "deviated from the norm" - "everyone says otherwise" - and to interrogate me.
Until Yoaz Hendel and Liran Avissar arrived and implemented exactly the same policy that was professional and correct, and today they are running with this achievement for the Knesset.
Even at the end of the 2015 election campaign - I was the last optimist who believed that we were winning. I saw the data flowing in all the time, the others were bowing under the same media pressure of defeat, loss, and "everyone says we're losing.".
When everyone around me had already internalized defeat, I saw the numbers of victory, presented them to the right people, and continued working.
On election night, they appeared on the screens for everyone - 30 seats for Likud.
There have been quite a few other such incidents in my life.
In the battle to stop Barak in the Yesha Council in 1999, and even when I got off the bus at the military academy for paratrooper training as a lone 'orderly' in 1981. Alone against everyone with determination, professionalism, and maintaining independence in thinking and positions.
Today, the predatory media propaganda system is preparing for the fight of its life - the 2026 elections. It is approaching it completely differently than what its people imagined three years ago.
They failed to overthrow a government and bring elections forward, they failed to "convince" the people that they need to think differently. And now they are busy creating demoralization and 'influence operations' - and unfortunately the polls have become their main propaganda tool. And in a psychological 'projection' show they are trying to blame me for it.
Too bad, it won't happen.
You tarred and feathered me for a decade until a court ruled that there were no "benefits" and "no bribes" and everything was professional. You didn't break me a decade ago, you won't break me now.
I'm done arguing. The explanations are all on my social media, for those who really want to understand.
From now until the elections, I will only publish data: professional, backed by technological research work of the highest level.
We met for a "charges" discussion the next day.
