A new report says Israel is spending big to slip pro-Israel talking points into AI chatbot answers, a fresh and unsettling front in propaganda that isn't really moving public opinion.

• Israel is paying former Trump campaign manager Brad Parscale $4.5 million a month — with $750 million set aside for 2026 — to run the operation.
• The trick is around 1,000 fake websites, like paxpoint.org and allivia.org, built not for human readers but to feed chatbot training data with pro-Israel spin.
• It's working on some bots: Google Gemini and Microsoft Copilot repeat the lines most, while ChatGPT and Claude filter them out better.
• A separate mass-texting campaign poses as "peace" groups to start friendly chats, then pushes pro-Israel links to unsuspecting people.
• Despite the money, American support for Israel is at record lows, and the effort may even backfire by making people suspicious.

Outlook: Expect Israel to double down on these influence campaigns and other countries to copy the chatbot-poisoning playbook, even as it fails to win hearts and minds.