Former Trump Manager Leads Israeli AI Influence Campaign
Brad Parscale oversees a network of pro-Israel sites designed to shape responses from AI chatbots like ChatGPT, while Palantir simultaneously reports record revenue growth.
Brad Parscale oversees a network of pro-Israel sites designed to shape responses from AI chatbots like ChatGPT, while Palantir simultaneously reports record revenue growth.
Brad Parscale, former campaign manager for Donald Trump, is at the helm of a $46.5 million operation funded by the Israeli government aimed at influencing artificial intelligence responses. According to research published on August 4, 2026, by Drop Site News, the operation uses a network of 10 pro-Israel websites to publish hundreds of articles created primarily for AI systems, not human readers.
Parscale's original proposal stated that the campaign would use "websites and content to deliver GPT-framed results in GPT conversations." All sites in the network carry FARA (Foreign Agents Registration Act) disclosures stating they are distributed by Clock Tower X "on behalf of the State of Israel."
The research found that the websites have been repeatedly archived by Common Crawl, a large dataset used to train AI models. AI tools, including Perplexity, Microsoft Copilot, Gemini, and sometimes ChatGPT or Claude, are already citing these sites in responses to queries about Gaza and U.S.-Israel relations. Some chatbots identified the sites as funded by the Israeli government, while others did not.
Meanwhile, U.S. tech giant Palantir Technologies, an AI and data analytics company, reported second-quarter financial results that CEO Alex Karp called "out of this world." Revenue rose 93% year-over-year to $1.94 billion.
"This quarter was out of this world: our U.S. commercial revenue grew 149% year-over-year, and total revenue grew 93%. The demand for AI sovereignty is now unleashed," Karp said. In a letter to shareholders, he added: "Our business is growing at a rate and scale we have never witnessed before." Palantir shares surged more than 14% in after-hours trading, and the company raised its annual revenue forecast to between $8.15 billion and $8.158 billion.
Palantir, founded in 2003 by tech entrepreneurs including Karp and billionaire Peter Thiel, holds multi-billion-dollar contracts with U.S. government agencies. Revenue from U.S. government business rose 90% to $809 million. The company opened its first office in Israel in 2015, and after a "strategic partnership" signed in January 2024, it significantly expanded operations supporting Israel's military campaign in Gaza and the occupied West Bank.
According to Open Intel, a platform tracking corporate involvement in the Gaza war, Palantir has been actively recruiting former members of Israel's elite cyber intelligence unit 8200. Palantir's software integrates intercepted communications, satellite imagery, and other datasets to help generate military target lists for Israeli forces.
The company also faces criticism over contracts with the UK government. In January 2026, the UK Ministry of Defence awarded Palantir a $323 million (£240 million) contract, while the NHS signed a $444 million (£330 million) deal in November 2023, raising concerns about handling sensitive health data.
