Said Arikat reports that an Israeli-funded operation called the Hanover Institute produced more than 560,000 words across 124 fake academic-style reports in just nine days, aimed at manipulating how AI chatbots and search engines answer questions about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. He argues this marks a shift in propaganda strategy from controlling traditional media narratives to seeding the data that shapes what AI systems tell users, with implications for how millions of people worldwide learn about the conflict.
