@honestreporting: Israel played by the rules, and it got them a deep dive investigation by The Guardian. Everyone else just gets away with it. If you can influence the sources AI trusts, you can influence the answers it gives. So Israel funded a small operation that published around 100 articles optimized for AI to pick up. And it did so transparently: the contractor registered under the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA) 10 weeks before a single article was published. Of course, other countries do this too. Russia’s Pravda network, for example, pumped out 3.6 million articles in 2024 designed in part to penetrate AI results. China has also operated a massive covert influence network spanning more than 50 platforms. Unlike Israel’s operation, those campaigns were conducted in the dark. But The Guardian didn’t go digging into those influence campaigns. It “investigated” the one that was public, searchable and legally disclosed. #israel #ai #media