Full title: Israel Is Paying Millions to Train AI Chatbots How to Talk About Gaza | Former Trump campaign manager Brad Parscale is overseeing an operation posting hundreds of blog posts on behalf of Israel, with the goal of infiltrating artificial intelligence.

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, 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 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 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 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 of Americans who use chatbots are increasingly likely to receive answers manipulated by Parscale on behalf of the Israeli government.

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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 dedicated to promoting the U.S.-Israel military relationship. Microsoft Copilot similarly cited Parscale’s websites.

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, 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 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.

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 dedicated to promoting the U.S.-Israel military relationship. Microsoft Copilot similarly cited Parscale’s websites.

All of Parscale’s websites contain a statement at the bottom which states “this material is distributed by Clock Tower X LLC on behalf of the State of Israel.” This statement is a mandatory disclosure requirement under the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA). Despite this, when Drop Site asked prominent chatbots about the latest news from Paxpoint.org, Perplexity and Copilot did not flag that the site was created as part of an Israeli influence operation. Claude, ChatGPT, and Gemini did flag the caveat.

It only takes about “250 malicious documents to produce a ‘backdoor’ vulnerability in a large language model—regardless of model size of training data volume,” according to an October Anthropic study.

Former Trump campaign manager Brad Parscale is overseeing an operation posting hundreds of blog posts on behalf of Israel, with the goal of infiltrating artificial intelligence.

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.

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While this is a drop in the bucket of Common Crawl data, *emerging research suggests a very low number of documents can successfully manipulate AI chatbots, no matter the data volume.

I shared this article specifically for the above mechanism described as it is a newish vector of disinformation/misinformation.

*https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC12881903/

Health care artificial intelligence (AI) systems now play a significant role in influencing diagnosis, documentation, triage, treatment planning, and resource allocation. As adoption accelerates, these systems face growing exposure to data poisoning attacks that can subtly and systematically degrade model performance. Even small adversarial manipulations can propagate across clinical workflows and affect large patient populations before they are detected. Consider a representative scenario: a radiology AI deployed across a hospital network begins missing early-stage lung cancers disproportionately among specific demographic groups. The errors resemble known health care disparities and therefore do not raise an immediate alarm. Yet, the root cause is a small set of approximately 250 poisoned images—comprising only 0.025% of a million-image training dataset—inserted during routine data contributions by an insider. Detection occurs years later through retrospective epidemiological review, long after patients have experienced delayed diagnoses and poorer outcomes.

This hypothetical case reflects empirically demonstrated vulnerabilities. Recent security studies have shown that health care AI systems can be backdoored with as few as 100-500 poisoned samples, ->->->regardless of total dataset size<-<-<- [1-5]. Attack feasibility has been confirmed across several architectures, including large language models (LLMs) used for clinical documentation and decision support [1], convolutional neural networks (CNNs) used in radiology and pathology [3], and emerging agentic systems that autonomously assist with clinical tasks [6]. These attacks do not require privileged system access; routine insider access to data-collection workflows is often sufficient [1-4]. A counterintuitive but critical finding from recent security research is that successful poisoning attacks require only 100-500 malicious samples, independent of total dataset size [5]. This challenges the conventional assumption that scaling training data provides security through dilution and has profound implications for health care AI, where training datasets routinely contain millions of samples yet remain vulnerable to attacks from a single insider over weeks or months.

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The original was posted on /r/technology by /u/Jojuj on 2026-07-28 17:38:55+00:00.