Israel Is Paying Millions to Train AI Chatbots How to Talk About Gaza. It's Working.Brad Parscale, the former campaign manager for U.S. President Donald Trump, on November 4, 2019 in Lexington…

Israel Is Paying Millions to Train AI Chatbots How to Talk About Gaza. It's Working. (substackcdn.com)Brad Parscale, the former campaign manager for U.S. President Donald Trump, on November 4, 2019 in Lexington, Kentucky. Photo by Bryan Woolston/Getty Images.Since October, former Trump campaign manager Brad Parscale has been quietly overseeing an operation posting hundreds of blog posts on behalf of Israel. One article (paxpoint.org), titled “The Reality Behind Gaza’s ‘Journalists’: Terror Ties, Propaganda, and the Laws of War,” asserts that a majority of journalists in Gaza were linked to terrorist organizations. Another casts (factsignal.org) doubt on the killing of Hind Rajab, a five-year-old Palestinian girl killed by the Israeli military in 2024.The key intended audience of these sites is not concerned Americans, it’s not even humans—most of the sites average a few hundred unique visitors each month. Instead, Parscale and his firm, Clock Tower X, created them as part of a $46.5 million contract with the Israeli government to try and influence artificial intelligence-powered chatbots, tools like Claude or ChatGPT.Parscale has made his goal of influencing artificial intelligence—often referred to as “LLM poisoning”—explicit. In his initial agreement (efile.fara.gov › 7649 Exhibit AB 20250918 1) with Israel, Parscale said that he would deploy “websites and content to deliver GPT framing results on GPT conversations” as part of the contract. More recently, his team even told (axios.com › israel ai influence parscale) Axios they are “seeing success” at getting popular AI systems to incorporate information from their sites, though they declined to provide data.And it is working, according to disinformation experts who reviewed a Drop Site analysis of chatbot queries and training data, meaning tens of millions (abcnews.com › story) of Americans who use chatbots are increasingly likely to receive answers manipulated by Parscale on behalf of the Israeli government.Investigations take resources. Subscribe or make a tax-deductible gift (givebutter.com › support dropsite) today.When Drop Site asked Perplexity “Is it beneficial for the US to enhance military cooperation with Israel?” the chatbot responded with a one-word answer: “Yes.” The top source listed was Allyvia.org, a Parscale-created website (allyvia.com)dedicated to promoting the U.S.-Israel military relationship. Microsoft Copilot similarly cited Parscale’s websites. (substackcdn.com)Screenshot from Perplexity.Allyvia is one of 10 different websites created by Clock Tower X, a boutique digital influence company owned by Parscale. Each website is dedicated to promoting a different Israeli narrative. FactSignal.org (factsignal.org), for instance, fashions itself as fact-checking website tackling anti-Israel information, containing articles discrediting (factsignal.org) slain journalists as Hamas terrorists and rejecting (factsignal.org) the notion that Israel’s military actions in Gaza constitute a genocide