Re:Fake US thinktank set up and funded by Israel sought to g...
by elcritch on Wednesday August 26, 2026 @10:50AM
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> It seems very impressive when you open it. That appears to be the point: the Israeli government's position presented as neutral, academic policy research purpose built for search LLMs to scrape and serve up in an AI overview as fact.
Given how much gaming of LLMs is undoubtedly already occurring it's more surprising how transparent and limited this is really.
The $10 million in funding is also seemingly a drop in the bucket to the billions anti-Israel and pro-Islamist governments like Qatar appear to be spending to influence actual academics wholesale [1,2]. No need to setup fake think tanks when you can just pay for Muslim Brotherhood to spread into western academia [3] (as far as pro-Israeli think tanks go at least ISGAP has actual meetings of scholars).
1: https://www.wsj.com/opinion/does-qatar-fund-antisemitism-at-... 2: https://www.npr.org/2026/02/12/nx-s1-5711359/us-colleges-5-b... 3: https://isgap.org/follow-the-money/
It seems very impressive when you open it. That appears to be the point: the Israeli government's position presented as neutral, academic policy research purpose built for search LLMs to scrape and serve up in an AI overview as fact.