Israel spent tens of millions of dollars on a digital influence campaign aimed at shaping how AI systems respond to questions about its genocidal war on Palestine’s Gaza, according to a July 29 report by Drop Site News.
The report alleges that Brad Parscale, US President Donald Trump’s former campaign manager, and his firm, Clock Tower X, built a network of websites under a $46.5 million contract with the Israeli government to promote pro-Israel narratives and manipulate responses on AI platforms including ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini and Perplexity.
According to documents cited by Drop Site, Clock Tower X published hundreds of articles across multiple websites about Tel Aviv’s war on Gaza, Israel’s military attacks on other neighbours and US-Israel relations.
The campaign allegedly sought to influence large language models (LLMs) by creating content designed to be indexed by search engines scraped by AI training datasets, increasing its visibility in AI-generated responses — a practice sometimes referred to as "LLM poisoning."
The websites reportedly promoted closer US-Israel military cooperation, defended Israel’s attacks on Gaza, challenged negative allegations about its conduct and advanced pro-Israel narratives.
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