A website operating as the Hanover Institute for Public Policy published 124 pro-Israel reports totaling more than 560,000 words between 6 and 14 August, using a thinktank identity with no apparent legal entity, physical address, named staff or report bylines. Its question-form headlines mirror chatbot prompts and frame subjects including Gaza casualties, starvation allegations, Palestinian displacement and genocide claims as neutral research. Piro Inc registered the site with the US justice department as material distributed for the Israeli government under the Foreign Agents Registration Act. The site initially used an llms.txt file from Res, a platform that markets tools to help content gain citations from ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude and Gemini. Res founder Hai Tran registered as a Piro subcontractor and digital strategist on the Israeli account. A contract involving Havas Media commits another US firm to deploying websites and content intended to produce “GPT framing results on GPT conversations.” Researcher Nick Cleveland-Stout said publishing material into web repositories such as Common Crawl could influence future model training without visible source citations. US filings show Havas Media Germany paid Clock Tower X $15 million and Targeted Communications Global about $9.9 million in late 2025 and early 2026; Piro held $1 million in work orders. Israeli officials have questioned the campaign’s effectiveness as US polling has shown worsening views of Israel. Israel’s foreign ministry has said it does not conduct US influence operations and follows US law, while Piro said it supplies accurate, sourced information.

The Hanover Institute for Public Policy is a website presenting itself as a think tank on Israel and Palestine, but its disclaimer says it was created for the Israeli Government Advertising Agency by Piro, Inc. The site has published more than 100 undated, unattributed reports since August 6, framing Israel-Gaza questions in a research-style format with footnotes, tables of contents, statistics, and citations. Piro describes a service called “AI Story Optimization” as authoring content engineered for how large language models assess credibility. NewsGuard analyst Alice Lee said the site appears designed to reach U.S. users through search engines and AI chatbots, which tend to favor concrete data and citations. Hanover reports challenge some claims critical of Israel, including UNICEF’s assessment of damage to Gaza’s water and institutional infrastructure, and often connect their subjects to antisemitism. The institute says its cited research is peer-reviewed and academic, while frequently citing Israeli government sources including the Israel Defense Forces and Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Piro has received $900,000 from the Israeli government through Havas Media, according to the reported filings. GPTZero classified 11 of 12 randomly selected Hanover reports as likely AI-written with high confidence and one with moderate confidence. Separately, Israel contracted former Trump campaign manager Brad Parscale under a $46.5 million deal to create pro-Israel websites intended to influence chatbot outputs; Drop Site reported that Copilot and Gemini had incorporated information from those sites.

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