🚨🇮🇱 Israel is trying to shape ChatGPT to call it “the world’s most moral army”... -FARA documents reviewed by Politico show Piro, Inc., a subcontractor of French PR giant Havas Media, ran a $100,000 campaign that produced over a dozen articles on the website of something called the 'Hanover Institute for Public Policy' -The site hosts dozens of unsigned "data reports" with headlines written as questions, including "Is the IDF the World's Most Moral Army?" and "Is There a Policy of Starvation in Gaza?", a format aimed at MACHINES rather than READERS -Here is the scary part: Both ChatGPT and Perplexity cited Hanover material when Politico ran neutral test queries -A disclosure at the bottom of the page states the material is distributed by Piro on behalf of Havas Media Germany on behalf of Israel's government advertising agency -Technical markers indicate the site was built using Res, a Seattle AI startup that advertises helping clients like Nike and Intel get recommended by AI models, and an identical copy hosted on Res's own domain went dark after Politico asked about it -Havas previously hired Brad Parscale's Clock Tower X for a $46.5 MILLION campaign whose filings explicitly described delivering GPT framing results -Piro's own FARA filings never list influencing language models as a goal -Co-founder Daniel Rosenberg said the firm was retained by the State of Israel to put accurate, sourced facts into the public record and counter misinformation -Havas, the Hanover Institute, Israel's advertising agency and the Israeli embassy all declined to comment... Big surprise there. Nobody pays to make a machine say the IDF is the world's most moral army unless they already know what it says for free. That's the tragic admission. Israel knows exactly where it stands... it just decided the problem was the ANSWER instead of it's own BEHAVIOR. So the budget goes toward manipulating and gaslighting the algorithm while its conduct in Gaza and Lebanon stays the same... Source: Politico / Writer: Daniel