Article URL: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/aug/26/fake-thinktank-israel-ai-propaganda Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49447600 Points: 19 # Comments: 0
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 re…