The Israeli government paid a media firm $900,000 to publish more than 100 fake think tank articles in 12 days — every one engineered to manipulate how ChatGPT, Gemini, and Perplexity respond to questions about the Israel-Palestine conflict. The firm behind it, Piro Inc., calls the technique “AI Story Optimization.” Researchers call it LLM poisoning. Whatever the label, the operation worked, and any developer running an AI product over real-world data should read the playbook carefully. The Operation The Hanover Institute for Public Policy launched August 6, 2026. It looks like a legitimate American think tank: professional layout, generic institutional […]
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