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There are hundreds of left-wing NGOs and think tanks for migration in Germany. Now the first and only NGO for remigration is to be established. And they are crying out for a ban. You can tell this is a miracle. Of course, we will continue and not be intimidated by this. #Migration #Remigration #NGO (translated)

Hanover Institute – propaganda designed for artificial intelligence For decades, influence operations had one primary target: people. Propaganda was designed to reach newspaper readers, television audiences or users scrolling through Facebook and TikTok. The Hanover Institute for Public Policy suggests that this model is beginning to change. In August 2026, an organisation presenting itself as an American think tank appeared online and, within just nine days, produced an enormous library of pseudo-academic research on Israel, Palestine and the war in Gaza. Yet the intended audience may not have been people at all. The material appears to have been designed, at least in part, to reach systems such as ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude and Perplexity. The Hanover Institute looked professional. It published lengthy “data reports” complete with methodologies, footnotes, tables and references to sources including the World Bank, United Nations agencies, Amnesty International and the Genocide Convention. What was considerably harder to find were the things normally associated with a genuine think tank: named experts, identifiable report authors, a physical headquarters or a clearly defined legal entity. There was, however, a much more revealing trail. Documents filed with the US Department of Justice under the Foreign Agents Registration Act link Piro Inc., via Havas Media Germany, to Israel's Government Advertising Agency, known as LaPam. Hanover itself now states that its material is distributed by Piro on behalf of Havas Media Germany, acting for LaPam. 124 reports in nine days The rate of production was extraordinary, even by the standards of online publishing. Between 6 and 14 August, the Hanover Institute released 124 reports containing more than 560,000 words – an average of roughly 4,500 words per publication. On 12 and 13 August alone, 73 reports appeared, totalling almost 354,000 words. More revealing than the volume was the way the material was structured. Many titles were framed as questions remarkably similar to those a user might ask an AI assistant: “Is anti-Zionism antisemitism?”, “Did Israel expel Palestinians from their land?”, “Is Israel committing genocide in Gaza?”, “Is there a starvation policy in Gaza?” or “Is the IDF the world's most moral army?” This did not resemble the conventional publishing schedule of a research institute. It looked more like the systematic construction of answers to as many contentious questions about Israel and Palestine as possible. The presentation mattered too. These were not crude propaganda leaflets. They were written in restrained, analytical language and packaged with data, references and methodological sections. To a search engine or an AI retrieval system, they could therefore resemble legitimate expert analysis. How to write for a chatbot Some of the most revealing evidence came from the site's technical architecture. Hanover maintained an llms.txt file – a mechanism intended to make website content easier for AI systems to interpret. Reporters also identified signs of technology associated with optimising content for generative search. Piro's own marketing is equally significant. The company advertised an “AI Story Optimization” service concerned with how large language models assess information and construct answers. Its co-founder Daniel Rosenberg has written about understanding how systems such as ChatGPT, Gemini and Perplexity formulate responses – and how to ensure that an AI system knows the story a client wants to tell. The principle resembles traditional search-engine optimisation, but the target has changed. SEO tries to make a webpage rank highly in Google. Generative Engine Optimisation, or GEO, attempts to make information discoverable, credible and useful to an AI system when it constructs an answer. The chain is potentially straightforward. A user asks a chatbot a question about Israel or Gaza. The system searches for information, encounters a professionally presented Hanover report and uses it as one of the sources from which it builds its response. Propaganda no longer has to reach the user directly. It can first reach the machine, which then delivers the information to a human audience in its own apparently neutral voice. Did it actually work? This is where an important qualification is necessary. There is no evidence that the Hanover Institute “reprogrammed ChatGPT”, altered the underlying parameters of OpenAI, Google or Anthropic models, or permanently poisoned their training data. Describing the operation simply as “poisoning AI” therefore risks overstating what can currently be demonstrated. There is, however, evidence of something more specific. In neutral tests conducted by POLITICO, both ChatGPT and Perplexity cited Hanover Institute material in answers concerning Gaza, anti-Zionism and antisemitism. That suggests the operation achieved at least one of its apparent objectives: in some circumstances, AI systems treated Hanover as a source from which information could be retrieved. What remains unknown is how often this happened, how long the effect persisted and whether it meaningfully altered answers for large numbers of users. It is therefore more accurate to describe Hanover as an attempt to manipulate the retrieval and citation layer of generative AI, rather than as evidence that the underlying models themselves were permanently compromised. The money trail leads back to the Israeli state Unlike many influence operations, attribution here does not depend solely on technical clues. There is a documented financial trail. Piro Inc. registered its US activities under FARA registration number 7732. Filings identify Havas Media Germany as a contractor acting on behalf of the Israel Government Advertising Agency, LaPam. An agreement dated 30 April included $900,000 for a “Digital Storytelling Pilot”, while subsequent documentation referred to a separate $100,000 information initiative. Precision matters. The available documents do not establish that the entire $900,000 was spent specifically on the Hanover Institute. They do, however, show that Piro was conducting communications activity financed through the Israeli state apparatus and aimed at American audiences, while Hanover materials were submitted to the Department of Justice under the same FARA registration. Following scrutiny of the project, Hanover also became considerably more explicit about its funding. Its website now identifies Piro, Havas Media Germany and LaPam. From propaganda for people to propaganda for machines The significance of the Hanover Institute does not depend on proving that the operation was enormously successful. Its importance lies in what it reveals about the changing architecture of influence. The internet is increasingly moving away from a model in which users open ten webpages and compare sources themselves. Instead, they ask ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude or Perplexity a question and receive a synthesised answer. That creates a new point at which the information environment can be manipulated. The traditional model looked something like this: create a misleading article, use accounts or advertising to increase its reach, and place it in front of human users. Hanover suggests another model: build a professional-looking source, publish hundreds of articles structured around questions people ask AI, optimise those materials for generative systems, and allow the chatbot to potentially incorporate them into its own answers. The most consequential feature of this mechanism is that the user may never visit the Hanover Institute website. They may never even know that the organisation exists. Its content only needs to become one ingredient in an answer generated by a system the user trusts. In the age of search engines, governments, companies and campaigners fought over what people would see in Google results. In the age of generative artificial intelligence, an increasingly important battle will be fought over something else: which sources machines use to construct the answers we accept as knowledge. Sources The Guardian – “Fake US thinktank set up and funded by Israel sought to game AI for propaganda” https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/aug/26/fake-thinktank-israel-ai-propaganda POLITICO – “Israeli PR wants to answer your ChatGPT questions” https://archive.ph/xF7sZ US Department of Justice – FARA documentation for Piro Inc., registration no. 7732 https://efile.fara.gov/docs/7732-Exhibit-AB-20260602-0.pdf Hanover Institute – funding and organisational disclosure https://hanoverinstitute.com/about Responsible Statecraft – “Israel creates fake think tank in likely attempt to dupe AI chatbots” https://responsiblestatecraft.org/israel-influence-chatgpt/ AIthropology Lab – “Manufacturing the source to manufacture the answer” https://aithropologylab.org/en/radar/2026-09-02/ #Disinformation #ArtificialIntelligence #AI #HanoverInstitute #Israel #Gaza #Palestine #ChatGPT #Claude #Gemini #GenerativeAI #AIPropaganda #Propaganda #InfluenceOperations #InformationWarfare #GenerativeEngineOptimization #GEO #LLM #MediaManipulation #DigitalInfluence #WRLD

"Ankieta przeprowadzona przez duży europejski think tank ujawnia: 70 procent respondentów postrzega UE negatywnie. Sceptycyzm jest szczególnie wysoki we Francji, Niemczech i Włoszech.” ⬇️ https://t.co/in6prQyP0X #UniaEuropejska #Sceptycyzm #ThinkTank #FR #DE #IT

A pro-Israel messaging website with the name of a thinktank that does not exist has published more than 500,000 words in 9 days, all presented as neutral research, built on a commercial platform to optimize content so that AI chatbots will cite it https://t.co/w8O5PINqeP #ProIsrael #Disinformation #AIethics #IL

Deutschland könnte laut Berechnungen eines Thinktanks sein Klimaziel für 2026 verfehlen, da trotz eines leichten Rückgangs der Emissionen durch wirtschaftliche und preisbedingte Effekte die zulässigen Jahreswerte überschritten werden könnten. #Klimaziele #Treibhausgasemissionen #Umweltschutz

Italský expremiér a exšéf ECB, Mario Draghi, spustil “Rhine Group”: think-tank, spojený s vlivnou lobby, který má připravit a protlačit zásadní reformu EU. Jsou v něm zastoupeny tyto země👇. Což mj. dokazuje, jak nicotný “výtlak” uvnitř EU dodnes má střední a východní Evropa🤷🏻‍♂️. https://t.co/BA7bGlAEhp #EUReform #MarioDraghi #ThinkTank #IT #EU

Et voici l'annonce de la création du troisième think tank du PS. Déjà nanti historiquement de l'institut Jean Jaurès et de l'institut Léon Blum attribué à la faction Boris Vallaud, voici donc "Noûs" lancé par Olivier Faure. Le PS a donc plus de think tank que d'idées ? Mais c'est un debut. #PS #ThinkTank #Politique

Die Geschichte des vielfach ausgezeichneten und hoch angesehenen Klimaforschers Roger Pielke Jr. zeigt auf dramatische Weise, was jenen widerfährt, welche sich der Klimalobby mit wissenschaftlichen Fakten in den Weg stellen. Die Klimalobby ist die mächtigste linke Bewegung der vergangenen 20 Jahre. Es geht ihr nicht um die Lösung des Klimaproblems, sie arbeitet eher am Gegenteil. Es geht ihr um Einfluss und um ihre politischen Ziele. Die Lobby hat das Klima-Thema gekapert, sie verfügt über die mächtigsten Instanzen in Politik, Medien und Wissenschaft, die jeden, der nicht klein bei gibt, im Namen vermeintlicher "Wissenschaft und Fakten" bekämpft nach der Strategie: diffamieren, isolieren, liquidieren. Das funktioniert erschreckend effektiv. Wer sich entgegenstellt, gilt als Bedrohung. Der manichäische Kampf gegen die Widerspenstigen verschafft gerade Journalisten Zugang zu einem einflussreichen Milieu, was in den vergangenen Jahren Jobs und Preise und Rückhalt garantierte. Je lauter und kämpferischer die Agitatoren agieren, desto mehr Applaus im eigenen Lager können sie generieren. Der Ablauf ist immer ähnlich: Erst wird die Reputation von Wissenschaftlern, Journalisten oder Politikern in den Dreck gezogen, was die Kollegenschaft auf Distanz gehen lässt und Attackierte zum Aufgeben bringt. Dann verschwinden sie aus ihrem Beruf. Es gibt zahlreiche Beispiele (mehr dazu steht in meinem Buch über den Klimastreit). Auch Pielke verließ seine Universität, die ihm keinen Rückhalt geboten hat, gegen die Attacken aus höchsten Kreisen. Er wechselte zu einem Thinktank, wo er glücklicherweise weiterhin Klimaforschung betreibt und ein Stachel im Fleisch der zerstörerischen Lobby bleibt (seinem Blog sollte man unbedingt folgen). Ich erzähle Pielkes dramatische Geschichte in meinem Klima-Buch ("Was Sie schon immer über Klima wissen wollten...") . Man kann nur bewundern, wie er gegen alle Widerstände den wissenschaftlichen Sachstand verteidigt hat. Bezeichnend: Alle, die auf diese Weise attackiert werden, stehen plötzlich ganz allein. Kaum jemand, der dann beispringt - obwohl die meisten wissenschaftlich Eingeweihten wissen: Pielke zitiert stoisch und sorgsam abgewogen wissenschaftlichen Sachstand (das sorgt verlässlich für die schärfsten Attacken). Wissenschaftliche Erkenntnis steht schon immer quer zu allen politischen Lagern und kulturellen Bewegungen. Politische Lobbys, welche wie die Klimalobby Wissenschaft für sich vereinnahmen wollen, müssen sie selektiv auslesen und verbiegen. Dafür wurden zahlreiche Institute und NGOs und Medien geschaffen, denen es gelang, die Klimadebatte zu dominieren, zum Leidwesen der meisten Klimaforscher. Pielkes Geschichte demonstriert, wie weit sie gehen: so weit sie können. #Klimaforschung #Klimawandel #Wissenschaft

🧵 THREAD: Reid Hoffman: the quintessential "Defender of Democracy" LinkedIn founder and tech mogul Reid Hoffman has spent endless millions making himself indispensable to the democracy ecosystem. Here's just a sampling : 🔹 Created fake "Russian bot accounts" to create allegations of Russia helping a 2017 Senate election 🔹 Mis-stated the extent of his friendship with Jeffrey Epstein and how long he continued to meet with Epstein 🔹 Crown Fellow at the Aspen Institute, the mysterious foreign-policy thinktank which receives money from both US and foreign governments 🔹 Highly influential in foreign policy circles: Bilderberg Group, Council on Foreign Relations, and more 🔹Along with George Soros, one of the biggest donors to American Bridge 21st Century, a Brock-ran PAC designed to trash Republican candidates You'd think that @RadioFreeTom , if he were so worried about lack of expertise, he would be calling out those people who spend enormous amounts of money interfering and shaping US elections. But, instead, nah, it's the West Virginia blue collar guy who's ruining America.... not the fact that people like Reid Hoffman and Jeffrey Epstein can buy their way into the highest levels of global influence. Here's the highlights of Reid Hoffman. As always, patience as I pull together the thread👇 -