{
  "id": 16272285,
  "title": "As Israeli election nears, campaign turns ugly",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/24/as-israeli-election-nears-campaign-turns-ugly",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-10-24T03:30:24.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Al-Monitor",
    "slug": "al-monitor",
    "url": "https://www.al-monitor.com/originals/2026/10/israeli-election-nears-campaign-turns-ugly"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
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  "summary": "Days ahead of close-fought Israeli elections, campaigns have gone into overdrive with poor-taste jibes and inflammatory attacks against candidates, sometimes crossing red lines. Fuelled in part by a boom in AI-generated images flooding social media, candidates and activists are seeking to portray their opponents as weak, untrustworthy or damaging for the country as they play on stereotypes and…",
  "key_points": [],
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  "coverage": {
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  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}