A pro-Israel influence operation is quietly gaming AI chatbots to spit out favorable answers, which is bad for anyone who trusts AI for straight facts.

• Israel is paying former Trump campaign adviser Brad Parscale to build fake "news" sites that trick chatbots into repeating pro-Israel talking points.
• The sites are built to look authoritative — bullet points, sources, tidy summaries — so tools like Perplexity cite them as real sources.
• Ask Perplexity if the US should boost military ties with Israel and it answers "yes," citing one of these planted sites.
• Every site carries fine print admitting it's distributed on behalf of the state of Israel, and the people behind it registered as foreign agents.
• Russia and others run the same playbook, and Congress is doing little to regulate AI while chasing donations from Nvidia and OpenAI.

Outlook: With no AI rules coming and cheap open models spreading, expect more governments and groups to flood chatbots with planted content.