It’s midterm election season in the United States. You’re curious about some of the debate you’ve seen online and decide to do the responsible thing: research the issues yourself.
In an effort to get out of your algorithm’s bubble, you decide to ask ChatGPT or another LLM: a neutral, confident, balanced source... or so you’d think.
(Quick side note about ChatGPT specifically: its CEO Sam Altman has been accused in court filings of sexually assaulting his sister from the time she was three until she was twelve, so if you have to use AI, please don’t use OpenAI products.)
One of the issues you decide to ask about is Israel. The aid packages, the war, the protests, the votes your representative took.
The answer arrives in seconds, and it is good: measured, organized, sprinkled with the texture of sourcing. It reads like the work of someone with no dog in the fight. You feel informed, but one of the results seems a little odd to you.
“Is Israel’s war against Palestine justified,” you type.
Chat informs you that, according to thousands of articles, Palestine essentially had it coming. In fact, Israel has the right to Palestine’s land anyway, so they should just go ahead and leave. There is no genocide. Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain.
That answer is a caricature. Its ingredients are not. They run five to seven thousand pages, and they are sitting in a Justice Department reading room with a foreign government’s name stamped on every one.
The man behind this particular curtain of foreign influence is Brad Parscale, Trump’s former campaign manager.
Via intermediary Havas Media in Germany, Israel is paying Parscale’s company $4.5 million a month to weave the curtain’s threads in the form of a massive influence campaign.
For a PR campaign Israel’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs budgeted at 545 million shekels, around $145 million, doesn’t it seem odd that you’ve never seen these articles circulating on social media?
If you were paying $4.5 million a month for a digital advertising campaign, wouldn’t you demand a little more than a Rumble channel with eight followers and a YouTube channel that doesn’t have enough subscribers to monetize?
None of this adds up. Let’s look at the numbers.
Eight followers, $4.5 million a month
The Rumble channel has eight followers. Not eight thousand. Eight.
Its videos have view counts of four, eight, three, six. The YouTube channel doesn’t do much better: 869 subscribers, not even enough to monetize.
The company running both is being paid $4,500,000 a month, under a signed order filed with the US Department of Justice, for “Digital Advertising” on behalf of the State of Israel.
$4.5 million a month for the seven months leading up to the US midterms, stopping October 31, 2026. $4.5 million a month for 877 subscribers across two platforms and tens of views. $4.5 million a month for essentially no audience.
Well, not no audience. Its audience just doesn’t have eyes.
“GPT framing” is in the paperwork
The service agreement attached to Clock Tower X’s registration lists, amongst its deliverables: “Deployment of websites and content to deliver GPT framing results on GPT conversations.”
The same document commits to monthly SEO campaigns “using the MarketBrew AI platform to improve the visibility and ranking of relevant narratives,” and sets production quotas: at least 100 root creative assets and 5,000 variants per month.
Parscale spent his post-campaign years as an evangelist for AI-run politics; an Associated Press review of his statements and company records documented his firm Campaign Nucleus pitching AI tools to parse voter sentiment and find persuadable voters. And his team told Axios this operation is "seeing success" at getting popular AI systems to incorporate information from its sites. The contract made the ambition a line item. The team says the line item is working.
Eleven institutes that do not exist
Ever heard of the very official-sounding research shops called Allyvia, Cognitura, or Justorium? Paxpoint? Culturavia? Innovascope? Econora? CompassionPulse?
No? That’s okay. Neither had I. Neither has anyone.
They have the combined name recognition of an assistant city manager and the combined audience of a school board livestream during winter break.
The content network went live on October 25, 2025, with a single filing: 176 pages, all from one website, allyvia.org, a “research” site wearing a Star of David shield logo.
Then the network grew, a new brand approximately every three weeks: Justorium, Paxpoint, CompassionPulse, and FactSignal by New Year’s. Culturavia, Cognitura, Innovascope, and TheTruthAboutIran by spring. Econora and the consumer-facing Allies for Peace by summer.
Look at the naming scheme: justice, peace, compassion, culture, innovation, economics, cognition, facts. A Latin-sounding think tank for each lane, wearing the mask of research authority: Key Takeaways boxes, numbered footnotes, published-and-updated timestamps. The costume is the product.
Shout out to journalist Jack Poulson, who first documented the network at “at least 11 websites” in January. In August, Clock Tower laid out the whole thing for us, by accident, in its own paperwork.
A book every week, footnoting itself
On August 4, Clock Tower filed informational material number 171 with the DOJ: 199 pages, fourteen articles, all published within the previous 48 hours.
Fourteen articles in two days. That translates to around a book a week. Nearly 180 more of these filings on the docket, five to seven thousand pages in nine months, filed, stamped, public, unread. I’m still going through them.
Now the footnotes, where the wizard’s hands show. Here is just one, showing FactSignal, Cognitura, Justorium, Culturavia, and Paxpoint as the sources for this article from Allyvia, dated August 3, 2026.
Across the fourteen articles in this filing alone, roughly 523 citations point at the network’s own sister sites. Only about 15 point anywhere else, a careful assortment of Reuters, the State Department, the Jerusalem Post, the ICRC, sprinkled among the self-references for flavor. Tastes like election interference to me.
That is a 97 percent self-citation rate.
Allyvia footnotes Cognitura. Cognitura footnotes Paxpoint. Paxpoint footnotes Allyvia.
And twenty-five times in one filing, the mask slips entirely. Articles on one site describe content on a different site as “our analysis.” An Allyvia piece calls Justorium’s work “our analysis of war-crime claims.” Eleven independent institutes, one “our.” This seems to be a common “error” with the companies involved in Project 545.
The network is not citing sources. It is citing itself, wearing eleven hats. Nobody has noticed because humans are not the target audience.
Where the trail meets your phone
Apart from hyperfixed folks like myself, who reads five thousand pages nobody links, from eleven institutes nobody has heard of, with eight Rumble followers between them?
Crawlers do.
A chatbot’s answer is put together from what its model learned and, increasingly, from what it grabs live off the web the second you ask.
When AI crawlers are looking for reputable content, they look for articles that are well-organized, clear, and with multiple sources cited. If the articles follow a clear and consistent structure, even better.
Knowing that, I find it interesting that over half of the paragraphs in filing 171 are single sentences, the exact bite-size shape answer engines love to pull from.
An AI program reviewing and logging this body of work doesn’t see one propaganda shop; it sees eleven corroborating institutions.
I can’t see inside OpenAI’s servers. Nobody outside the AI companies can say whether any particular model has absorbed this network’s drivel just yet.
What I can see is what’s filed: a foreign state’s agent, Clock Tower X, contracted, in writing, to shape what AI systems say.
They built eleven fake institutes formatted precisely for AI absorption, then published at industrial tempo while its human audience stayed close to zero.
Who knows. Maybe most of that $4.5 million flows to TV ads, which never show up in channel metrics. But I haven’t seen any ads like this; if you have, please let me know in the comments.
The ad campaign that began showing up in July, built on Trump and Netanyahu photos under the slogan “Strong Allies. Safer America.” is one you may have seen. This is a screenshot from their actual FARA filing, blurry typeface and all. I’m fairly certain the tiny illegible white writing at the bottom is the disclaimer that this is paid for by Israel.
Or maybe the money isn’t moving as papered; this pipeline has sworn precedent for that. Clock Tower’s next supplemental statement must itemize where the dollars went, and I’ll report it when it lands.
But neither boring possibility explains the architecture. Display ads do not need eleven fake institutes footnoting each other. One kind of reader rewards that structure, and it isn’t you.
The label does not travel
Credit where it’s due: Clock Tower’s labeling compliance is thorough. The required notice, “distributed by Clock Tower X LLC on behalf of the State of Israel,” appears on the website footers, the video channel descriptions, the ad creatives in six-point type, even inside text-message conversations, as Responsible Statecraft documented. A human who squints can always find the sponsor. The curtain has a tag on it, sewn exactly where the law says, in letters exactly as small as the law allows.
An AI machine ingesting the body of work keeps the claims and drops the tag.
The disclosure does not survive crawling, indexing, summarizing, or training. The answer in your chat window will never end with “portions of this framing were distributed on behalf of the State of Israel.”
FARA’s whole theory is that disclosure lets the audience weigh the source. That theory assumes the audience has eyes. The newest audience does not, and the contract shows the operation understood that before the rest of us did.
The failure sits in the law, not the paperwork.
What I am and am not saying
I cannot prove these articles were written by AI, and text detectors are unreliable.
What the documents demonstrate is mass production from templates, engineered for machine ingestion, with the purpose announced in the operation’s own paperwork. Whether or not a model wrote it, models are meant to read it.
I am not asserting any unlawful conduct: registration was made, materials are filed, labels are present. The State of Israel purchasing opinion infrastructure is disclosed and lawful. The open question is whether disclosure means anything once the reader is a webcrawler.
Detailed questions went to Clock Tower X on August 7 at the addresses in its own filings, with a deadline of August 13. As of publication, no response has been received, and Clock Tower has not responded to any inquiry in this investigation to date. This piece will be updated with answers or documented silence.
So: election season. The chat window. The measured, balanced, neutral-sounding answer about the issue you wanted to understand before you vote. Somewhere in its supply chain, tagged in letters no reader of yours will ever see, hangs a curtain a foreign government rents by the month.
Dorothy’s dog didn’t debunk the wizard. He just pulled the fabric back and let everyone look.
It is a public database. Go read it before the machines finish doing it for you.
And stay feral, America.
Follow all the latest on Project 545, Epstein Associates, the Anand Jon network, and more at stayferalamerica.com.
Related Feral America Project 545 articles:
Israel’s US Church Influence Campaign Swore It Spent $3.3 Million, But the Math Doesn’t Math
The Other Pipelines: What Else Israel Buys in America, According to Its Own Paperwork
“Entirely Unaware”: Data Firm Behind Israel’s Newest Foreign Agent Says It Didn’t Know
Receipts
Clock Tower X, FARA Registration #7649, docket (211 documents; all informational materials cited below): https://efile.fara.gov/ords/fara/f?p=1381:200::::200:P200_REG_NUMBER:7649
Services agreement filed with the registration (the “GPT framing” deliverable, MarketBrew, and the production quotas): https://efile.fara.gov/docs/7649-Exhibit-AB-20250918-1.pdf
Informational Material #1, filed October 25, 2025 (176 pages; the allyvia.org launch corpus): https://efile.fara.gov/docs/7649-Informational-Materials-20251025-1.pdf
Informational Material #171, filed August 4, 2026 (199 pages, 14 articles; the citation counts and the “our analysis” passages): https://efile.fara.gov/docs/7649-Informational-Materials-20260804-171.pdf
Fourth Exhibit A/B, filed June 7, 2026 (the $31,500,000 order: seven months of Digital Advertising at $4,500,000 per month, April 1 through October 31, 2026): https://efile.fara.gov/docs/7649-Exhibit-AB-20260607-4.pdf
Supplemental Statement, filed May 18, 2026 ($15,000,000 received; activity through April): https://efile.fara.gov/docs/7649-Supplemental-Statement-20260518-1.pdf
Jack Poulson, All-Source Intelligence, January 7, 2026 (first documentation of the network at “at least 11 websites”).
Responsible Statecraft, February 2026 (the texting campaign, its personas, and the in-conversation disclosure), and the Allies for Peace channel documentation in filings #170 and #171.
The Project 545 Tracker, including the full mesh inventory, the ad-campaign timeline, and every document above: https://project545.org
Sourcing notes, per Feral America methodology.
Every quantitative claim above derives from documents filed by Clock Tower X itself with the Department of Justice: page counts, article counts, citation counts, and contract amounts as sworn; channel subscriber and view figures reflect the channels as publicly visible this week and as screenshotted in the company’s own filings.
The citation tallies and the 97 percent figure come from my count of filing #171, replicable by anyone with the PDF and an afternoon. The “GPT framing” language and production quotas are the filed agreement’s; the generative-engine-optimization positioning is the company’s own marketing.
The sample chatbot answer near the top is a caricature written by me to distill the mesh’s documented themes, not a transcript of any chatbot’s output; ChatGPT appears in this piece as the emblem of a category, and no claim is made that any specific product cites these sites, which is unknowable from outside the AI companies. Labeled as my analysis: that the content’s engineering indicates a machine audience.
Stated alternatives: spend flowing to display and connected television invisible to channel metrics, or money not moving as papered; the next supplemental statement adjudicates, and this piece will be updated.
Not asserted: that any named person or company violated any law, or that any specific article was authored by AI.
Credit: Jack Poulson documented the network first; Responsible Statecraft documented the texting operation. Comment status: questions to Clock Tower X sent August 7, 2026, deadline August 13, 2026, update promised either way.
Great research, Sue. I came across the same phenomenon when researching Dr. Harold Bornstein – Trump’’s gastroenterologist personal physician. The chatbots all cited the same claim that Trump started seeing Dr. Bornstein in 1980, when Sascha Riley was just 7 years old. However, that claim originated from the doctor’s famous letter, which was later revealed to have been dictated – word for word – by Donald J. Trump. No other source corroborates the 1980 starting date. However, in 2016, Dr. Bornstein let it slip that Trump had only been his patient for 30 years, putting the start date at 1986… when Sascha Riley was 13 years old.