[8] He previously worked as social media director for Shurat HaDin, an Israeli NGO that provides legal services to victims of terrorist attacks.

[18] According to Haaretz, Netanyahu uses social media "for the benefit of spreading lies, defamation and slander against those who are perceived in his eyes as enemies of the camp headed by his father".

[20] In March 2019, he was asked to leave his work at the Israel Law Center, an NGO that provides legal services to terror victims, after criticizing President Reuven Rivlin for his efforts on behalf of Arab-Israeli coexistence.

[9] In May 2019, Netanyahu expressed support for right-wing nationalist figures Viktor Orbán, Matteo Salvini, Nigel Farage and Geert Wilders in the 2019 European Parliament election.

[31] In September 2019, Netanyahu accused former Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, who was assassinated in 1995, of having "murdered Holocaust survivors on the Altalena".

[32][33][34] He has compared Roni Alsheikh, the Israel Police chief who played a role in the Netanyahu corruption investigations, to the fictional mobster Tony Soprano.

[35] In May 2020, the far-right politician and Alternative for Germany (AfD) member Joachim Kuhs used a quote from Netanyahu in his campaign graphics.

[43] On 7 July 2019, he won a libel suit against Israeli Labor Party activist Abie Binyamin for claiming that Netanyahu was hiding millions in offshore accounts.

[44] In November 2019, Netanyahu was sued for slander after sharing a Facebook post claiming that former Walla news site editor Avi Alkalay was a plant for the Wexner Foundation.

[49] In January 2025, an appeal of a lawsuit previously filed by Yair Netanyahu against former Knesset member Stav Shaffir for publicly calling him "a liar, an evil man, a racist and a sexual-abuser" was rejected by the court, and Netanyahu was forced to compensate Shafir for her legal fees, in addition to compensation after losing the initial court case.