Israel’s efforts to influence the vote for the Eurovision Song Contest were broader and started years earlier than previously known, a New York Times investigation found. Here is the inside story of the controversy that almost broke Eurovision. https://t.co/ob4U9eWM0c
Before the #TurquoiseCarpet the host said up to 30.000 spectators, and the altered preview image looked like this to the left.
But reality was definitely nothing close to 30.000 spectators, and the image to the right.
Eurovision is dying.
🚨 BREAKING:
The NYT has released an investigation into Israel's activity at #Eurovision.
They describe "a well-organized campaign" by Israel's government "that embraced Eurovision as a soft power tool - and say the EBU "was ill-equipped to respond."
https://t.co/HqNxNSCoox