Tehilla Shwartz Altshuler

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May 5, 2025, 4:30 PM

My cyber attacker was disarmingly ‘human’

Message exchange between Tehilla Shwartz Altshuler and a spear-phishing cyber attacker. (screenshots montage by The Times of Israel)

As a cybersecurity policy expert, I should know how to recognize a spear-phishing scam. The personal touch caught me off guard

Apr 21, 2025, 4:45 PM

Jews are the canary in the AI coalmine

AI is accelerating the wave of antisemitism sweeping across social media. (AI background via iStock, montage by The Times of Israel)

Artificial intel systems can erase the Holocaust from historical narratives, rewrite key historical events, and generate hateful images of Jews

May 6, 2024, 2:46 PM

Digital antisemitism: The largest propaganda machine since the Holocaust

An untitled cartoon published by a Bahrain news outlet on November 27 depicts Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu driving through Gaza in a blood-soaked tank while pulling the Statue of Liberty and US President Joe Biden behind him. (The Anti-Defamation League, via The Times of Israel)

Social media is spreading unprecedented Jew-hatred, and that's before AI starts using algorithms to discriminate against Jews

Nov 28, 2023, 2:24 PM

On Israel’s warm welcome for Elon Musk

CEO of X (formerly known as Twitter) Elon Musk, arrives to meet with National Unity leader Benny Gantz in the Knesset in Jerusalem, on November 27, 2023. (Chaim GoldbergFlash90)

Our leaders rolled out the red carpet for the man whose platform sends ‘Hitler was right’ tweets to Israeli users

Nov 9, 2023, 2:02 PM

Israel’s disastrous love affair with military tech

Soldiers are seen monitoring surveillance cameras at a command center at the IDF’s Re’im camp in southern Israel, November 5, 2023. (Israel Defense Forces)

Reliance on shiny new surveillance toys put humans in the back seat and left gaping security holes for Hamas to exploit

Nov 14, 2022, 4:12 PM

The real revolution is information chaos

In a TikTok campaign spot, Benjamin Netanyahu warns warns Likud supporters their party will end up in the opposition, October 30, 2022.

Who needs journalism? From the king of TV ratings, Netanyahu has discredited news outlets and become a politician who knows what will go viral on social networks

Jan 21, 2022, 11:50 AM

The NSO scandal should be an earthquake for the Israel Police

Police surveillance illustration by Avi Katz

They hacked into the very souls of Israeli citizens illegally, without public oversight, and, most troubling of all, claim it was approved by the Attorney General

Oct 13, 2021, 11:22 PM

Facebook is toxic in Hebrew too — Israelis must be protected

It's up to lawmakers to enact privacy protection, outlaw predatory marketing and hold social media providers in Israel accountable for the harm they do

Aug 3, 2020, 4:02 PM

Data is the name of the game

The appearance of the CEOs of the world's largest technology companies -- Google, Apple, Amazon and Facebook -- before the US Congress -- House Judiciary Committee's antitrust subcommittee, was without doubt the best show in town. After all, who...

Nov 24, 2019, 3:32 PM

We need to talk about cameras right now

(iStock)

They are everywhere, argued the PM after pushing to install them in polling stations. He's right, and that's exactly the problem

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About Me

Dr. Tehilla Shwartz Altshuler is a Senior Fellow at the Israel Democracy Institute and an expert in law and technology