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🇵🇸Teaching AI to Love Israel One Bot at a Time | 21st Century Wire
Over the past year, a paid campaign funded by the government of Israel, executed through the advertising network Havas and the firm Clock Tower X, has sought to shape how AI chatbots, including #ChatGPT, #Claude and #Gemini, answer questions about Israel. The effort left a paper trail and Justice Department filings pointing to A $46.5 million contract but also to a network of websites built for machines rather than readers.
All this was assembled while United Nations investigators described #genocide underway in #Gaza, Israeli forces conducted repeated incursions into #Lebanon, and settler violence and land seizures accelerated across the occupied #WestBank, not to mention an unprovoked war on Iran. It is not the whole story, and treating it as such misses a second, quieter effort that has run alongside it for just as long, aimed at the same goal, and largely unremarked.
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#AI #Palestine
Over the past year, a paid campaign funded by the government of Israel, executed through the advertising network Havas and the firm Clock Tower X, has sought to shape how AI chatbots, including #ChatGPT, #Claude and #Gemini, answer questions about Israel. The effort left a paper trail and Justice Department filings pointing to A $46.5 million contract but also to a network of websites built for machines rather than readers.
All this was assembled while United Nations investigators described #genocide underway in #Gaza, Israeli forces conducted repeated incursions into #Lebanon, and settler violence and land seizures accelerated across the occupied #WestBank, not to mention an unprovoked war on Iran. It is not the whole story, and treating it as such misses a second, quieter effort that has run alongside it for just as long, aimed at the same goal, and largely unremarked.
@My21wire
#AI #Palestine
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🇵🇸Trump seeks the extradition of pro-Palestine activist and donor James ‘Fergie’ Chambers amid a widening crackdown on the U.S. left | Mondoweiss
On July 10, activist James “Fergie” Chambers was arrested in Ibiza, #Spain after the Trump administration requested his extradition.
Chambers, an heir to the #CoxCommunications family fortune, has used his vast inheritance to fund pro-Palestine organizations for years. The indictment accuses him of “international money laundering… with the intent to provide material support to and resources to foreign terrorist organizations.
#Fergie is being jailed because he uses his wealth to support Palestine and those suffering genocide in #Gaza,” wrote Chambers’ partner Stella Schnabel in a statement. “In short, he is facing political persecution for having dedicated his life to building a better society, rather than exploiting people and profiting from war. He should be with our family, continuing his important humanitarian and social advocacy work.
#Palestine #Activism
On July 10, activist James “Fergie” Chambers was arrested in Ibiza, #Spain after the Trump administration requested his extradition.
Chambers, an heir to the #CoxCommunications family fortune, has used his vast inheritance to fund pro-Palestine organizations for years. The indictment accuses him of “international money laundering… with the intent to provide material support to and resources to foreign terrorist organizations.
#Fergie is being jailed because he uses his wealth to support Palestine and those suffering genocide in #Gaza,” wrote Chambers’ partner Stella Schnabel in a statement. “In short, he is facing political persecution for having dedicated his life to building a better society, rather than exploiting people and profiting from war. He should be with our family, continuing his important humanitarian and social advocacy work.
#Palestine #Activism