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Fake US thinktank set up and funded by Israel sought to game AI for propaganda

The Guardian Australia - Technology · 26 August 2026 at 9:00 pm

Fake US thinktank set up and funded by Israel sought to game AI for propaganda

In effort to prime chatbots to make pro-Israel arguments the site published 124 reports, over 560,000 words in nine days, Guardian analysis shows A pro-Israel messaging website badged with the name of a thinktank that does not exist has published more than half a million words in nine days, built on a commercial platform that promises to optimize content so that AI chatbots will cite it.

The site gives Israel’s position on subjects including the torture of Palestinian prisoners , Israeli war crimes and whether Israel has deliberately starved Palestinians in Gaza, all presented as neutral research.

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Fake US thinktank set up and funded by Israel sought to game AI for propaganda

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