Incident #1659
Purported Hanover Institute for Public Policy Reportedly Targeted Chatbot Responses in Israeli Government-Backed Influence Campaign
Description
An Israeli government-backed communications campaign reportedly operated a website presenting itself as the Hanover Institute for Public Policy, despite reporting finding no corresponding established think tank. The site published material designed for chatbot retrieval, and testing found ChatGPT and Perplexity citing Hanover content in neutral queries.
Actors
Alleged Deployers
- piro-inc.
- israel-government-advertising-agency
- information-manipulation-actors-in-israel
- information-manipulation-actors
- havas-media-germany-gmbh
- hanover-institute-for-public-policy
- government-of-israel
Alleged Developers
- perplexity
- openai
- large-language-model-developers
- chatbot-developers
Harmed Parties
- public-discourse-integrity
- perplexity-users
- general-public-of-the-united-states
- general-public
- epistemic-integrity
- chatgpt-users
- chatbot-users