Jacobi Niv

Jacobi Niv (Born Yaniv Issac Yacobi) is an American Israeli-born entrepreneur who for several years was associated with American broadcaster Larry King until King severed the relationship due to Niv’s dishonesty.
Career
In 2004, Niv co-founded the Israeli magazine Koteret and recruited several prominent Israeli journalists such as Ofri Ilani to the periodical, which folded after several issues.
Niv and King co-founded LCI-Life Changing Internet LLC in California in 2012, which was to develop digital platforms and content. The venture was unsuccessful.<ref name="king"/>
In 2014, Niv announced the launch “Israel Silicon Valley Chambers of Commerce” in partnership with King and the Technion Israel Institute of Technology. However, the venture failed to be realized after preliminary discussions.<ref name="king"/>
In 2019, Niv was approached by Itai Rapoport, a former journalist who owns a company that produces promotional videos, about featuring King in "an online conference on U.S-China relations".<ref name"king"/> Niv gave King a list of scripted questions to read. These were later edited into a video of comments by Russian journalist Anastasia Dolgova on the topic of Guo Wengui, a Chinese dissident in New York City whom the Chinese government seeks to have deported and whom Dolgova alleged had committed a number of crimes. The video was edited to give the appearance of King and Dolgova having a live conversation however the questions and answers were recorded separately and King, reading a script, was unaware of her responses, which repeated the line of the Chinese government on the issue. Once King's own production company saw the completed video, they refused to post it online and asked that it not be released. Niv disregarded their objections and released the video independently on YouTube. King's family insisted that it be removed but once Niv took it down he found that it had been duplicated and gone viral on Twitter due to the efforts of what ProPublica alleges are Chinese government run social media accounts. As a result of the incident, King has severed his relationship with Niv, saying he believes Niv took advantage of their friendship.<ref name"king"/>

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