A newly uncovered website posing as a legitimate thinktank has flooded the internet with over half a million words of pro-Israel content in just nine days, using a platform designed to boost its visibility in AI chatbot responses. The site frames Israel’s stance on controversial issues—including allegations of prisoner torture and war crimes—as objective analysis, despite lacking any credible affiliation with a real research institution. Investigations reveal the operation’s explicit focus on shaping AI-generated discussions to favor Israel’s perspective, raising concerns over misinformation in automated information systems. The rapid output suggests a coordinated effort to influence digital discourse on the conflict.
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. Continue reading...
