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An Israeli-Funded Fake Think Tank Published 124 Reports in Nine Days, Almost Every Headline Phrased as a Question
The Guardian reported on August 26 that the Hanover Institute for Public Policy, which has no legal existence in any jurisdiction and lists no address, staff or authors, published 124 academic-styled reports totalling over half a million words between August 6 and 14 on genocide allegations, war crimes and starvation in Gaza. US firm Piro Inc registered the material under FARA on behalf of the Israeli government and has received $900,000 for the work. The tell that this targets retrieval rather than readers: nearly every one of the 124 headlines is written as a question a user would type into a chatbot.
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