- Voting cap halved for 2026, encouraging fans to spread support across more entries
- Professional juries return to Semi-Finals with expanded, more diverse panels including young jurors aged 18–25
- Enhanced technical safeguards to detect and block coordinated or fraudulent voting activity
- disproportionate promotion campaigns, particularly those of affiliated third parties, such as governments (cough Israel cough) are now prohibited
Well, gee.
Reducing the number of votes per phone number or credit card to 10 from 20? I guess we’ll just have to generate twice as many through the SaaS we use to vote.
I didn’t see the sponsors for this year, but I assume Moroccan oil is still the main one. So, of course they’ll do everything to favor Israel.
No need to jump to conspiracy theories, the truth is bad enough.
There is no evidence that actively fraudulent votes where submitted for Israel in the last two years. All their votes where cast by real people, eligible to vote, without them having received any direct compensation. The scenario implied by you did not happen.
What did happen last year was a massive advertising campaign by the Israeli government, activating people sympathetic to Israels cause but did not watch the show. All of this was highly unethical on so many levels but did not violate the rules as they where then.
As for Morrocan Oil, there again is no evidence, that they as sponsor had any influence on the politics of participation at the contest.
Why must everything on the internet immediately be the worst version of the thing ever? Israel uses the contest to sportswash their numerous and various war crimes. Morrocan oil is accused of operating factories in illegally occupied territory (though last time I checked, I couldn’t find any proof of that claim. If someone can provide it, I would be genuinely interested). Isn’t that enough to disqualify the country?