50000000$ ISRAEL FUNDS A COMPAIGN TO INFLUENCE AI ANSWERS

Israel has poured tens of millions of dollars into a new front in the battle over narratives, enlisting Brad Parscale, the former digital director of Donald Trump’s campaign, to build a network of websites and content designed to expand the reach of the Israeli narrative within the information ecosystem accessed by AI tools.

The material addresses sensitive aspects of the Gaza war, including genocide, starvation, casualty figures, the Nakba, and Hind Rajab, before being published in structured formats optimized for search and archiving. Pages from the network have made their way into Common Crawl, a vast web archive whose data is used to build AI training datasets.

The battle therefore goes beyond an ad or post aimed at persuading today’s users. It is also an attempt to influence the sources AI systems may retrieve when asked about Gaza and Israel—and, ultimately, the narrative that could reach millions of users and future generations.