Hyderabad, July 29 -- The next time you ask an AI chatbot about the war in Gaza, the answer you get may have been quietly shaped by an Israeli government-funded operation, and there is no actual way of knowing.

An investigation by Drop Site News has found that Brad Parscale, the former campaign manager for US President Donald Trump, has since October 2025 been running a covert operation on behalf of Israel aimed at influencing what artificial intelligence (AI) tools such as ChatGPT, Google Gemini and Microsoft Copilot tell users about Israel and Gaza.

The contract is worth USD 46.5 million in total and currently runs at USD 4.5 million a month. It has tripled from the USD 1.5 million a month Parscale first signed for.

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