"AI" hasbara: Israel pours millions into influencing U.S. evangelicals in churches, ChatGPT
"AI" hasbara: Israel pours millions into influencing U.S. evangelicals in churches, ChatGPT
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Losing the Republican base, Israel pours millions to target evangelicals and churchgoers
The Israeli government has signed contracts worth millions of dollars in recent months to rehabilitate Israel's standing in American public opinion, both online and offline. Amid a sharp drop in support from the conservative right, Israel has hired firms to conduct not just "hasbara public diplomacy] campaigns" but also campaigns targeting millions of Christian churchgoers, bot networks to amplify pro-Israel messages online, and efforts to influence both search results and the responses given by popular AI services like ChatGPT.