🟠 NEW (via Ynet):

Israel has earmarked over half a billion shekels ($145 million) in its 2025 budget to weaponize social media and ChatGPT in its largest U.S. propaganda push since it began carrying out a genocide in Gaza, according to newly filed FARA documents.

Israel’s Foreign Ministry hired U.S. firm Clock Tower—run by Trump’s ex-campaign manager Brad Parscale—to shape online discourse, including attempts to engineer how AI systems like ChatGPT, Grok, and Gemini respond to queries about Israel.

The campaign—called Project 545—aims for 50 million monthly impressions, with 80% of its content aimed at Gen Z on TikTok, Instagram, and YouTube. A parallel program, Project Esther, is bankrolling U.S. influencers: contracts allow payments of up to $900,000, with a monthly budget reaching $250,000.

The plan begins with 5–6 influencers required to post 25–30 times per month, later expanding into larger networks with American agencies and Israeli content creators. Influencers can earn anywhere from tens of thousands to hundreds of thousands of dollars.

Netanyahu, who personally met with influencers in New York earlier this month, called social media Israel’s “eighth front” and declared: “The most important weapon today is social media.”

https://x.com/DropSiteNews/status/1975212554927362408

Aaron Mate: The opening scene to a great horror movie: 🍿

Here's the letter Bari Weiss sent just now to all CBS News employees.

"Bari Weiss is not merely a journalist or an advocate; she is an enabler of human rights abuses, and her words contribute to the ongoing subjugation and dehumanization of an entire people. Rafaat in Gaza blamed Bari Weiss and her likes in a tweet if he gets killed by Israel bombs because maniacal Israeli soldiers act upon those lies."

https://x.com/aaronjmate/status/1975191931878863203