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Israel Is Paying Millions to Train AI Chatbots How to Talk About Gaza. It's Working.
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Fusion42 · 29 July 2026 · Fusion42 review
The Israeli government has hired a firm run by Brad Parscale, Clock Tower X, for $46.5 million to create web content specifically designed to influence AI chatbots' responses regarding the conflict in Gaza. Experts and the firm itself confirm this "LLM poisoning" campaign is successfully manipulating the information provided by popular AI systems.
This Wire brief sits within Fusion42's coverage of AI & ML.
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State-sponsored data poisoning of large language models is no longer a theoretical risk. If your product relies on a public LLM for generating trusted information, its outputs are now being actively manipulated by government-funded campaigns.
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