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Hanover Institute for Public Policy website

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Incident 16592 Report
Purported Hanover Institute for Public Policy Reportedly Targeted Chatbot Responses in Israeli Government-Backed Influence Campaign

2026-08-14

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.

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Piro, Inc.

Incidents involved as Deployer
  • Incident 1659
    2 Reports

    Purported Hanover Institute for Public Policy Reportedly Targeted Chatbot Responses in Israeli Government-Backed Influence Campaign

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Israel Government Advertising Agency

Incidents involved as Deployer
  • Incident 1659
    2 Reports

    Purported Hanover Institute for Public Policy Reportedly Targeted Chatbot Responses in Israeli Government-Backed Influence Campaign

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Information manipulation actors in Israel

Incidents involved as Deployer
  • Incident 1659
    2 Reports

    Purported Hanover Institute for Public Policy Reportedly Targeted Chatbot Responses in Israeli Government-Backed Influence Campaign

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Information manipulation actors

Incidents involved as Deployer
  • Incident 1659
    2 Reports

    Purported Hanover Institute for Public Policy Reportedly Targeted Chatbot Responses in Israeli Government-Backed Influence Campaign

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Havas Media Germany GmbH

Incidents involved as Deployer
  • Incident 1659
    2 Reports

    Purported Hanover Institute for Public Policy Reportedly Targeted Chatbot Responses in Israeli Government-Backed Influence Campaign

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Hanover Institute for Public Policy

Incidents involved as Deployer
  • Incident 1659
    2 Reports

    Purported Hanover Institute for Public Policy Reportedly Targeted Chatbot Responses in Israeli Government-Backed Influence Campaign

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Government of Israel

Incidents involved as Deployer
  • Incident 1659
    2 Reports

    Purported Hanover Institute for Public Policy Reportedly Targeted Chatbot Responses in Israeli Government-Backed Influence Campaign

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Perplexity

Incidents involved as Developer
  • Incident 1659
    2 Reports

    Purported Hanover Institute for Public Policy Reportedly Targeted Chatbot Responses in Israeli Government-Backed Influence Campaign

Incidents implicated systems
  • Incident 1659
    2 Reports

    Purported Hanover Institute for Public Policy Reportedly Targeted Chatbot Responses in Israeli Government-Backed Influence Campaign

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OpenAI

Incidents involved as Developer
  • Incident 1659
    2 Reports

    Purported Hanover Institute for Public Policy Reportedly Targeted Chatbot Responses in Israeli Government-Backed Influence Campaign

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Large language model developers

Incidents involved as Developer
  • Incident 1659
    2 Reports

    Purported Hanover Institute for Public Policy Reportedly Targeted Chatbot Responses in Israeli Government-Backed Influence Campaign

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Chatbot developers

Incidents involved as Developer
  • Incident 1659
    2 Reports

    Purported Hanover Institute for Public Policy Reportedly Targeted Chatbot Responses in Israeli Government-Backed Influence Campaign

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Public discourse integrity

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 1659
    2 Reports

    Purported Hanover Institute for Public Policy Reportedly Targeted Chatbot Responses in Israeli Government-Backed Influence Campaign

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Perplexity users

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 1659
    2 Reports

    Purported Hanover Institute for Public Policy Reportedly Targeted Chatbot Responses in Israeli Government-Backed Influence Campaign

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General public of the United States

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 1659
    2 Reports

    Purported Hanover Institute for Public Policy Reportedly Targeted Chatbot Responses in Israeli Government-Backed Influence Campaign

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General public

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 1659
    2 Reports

    Purported Hanover Institute for Public Policy Reportedly Targeted Chatbot Responses in Israeli Government-Backed Influence Campaign

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Epistemic integrity

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 1659
    2 Reports

    Purported Hanover Institute for Public Policy Reportedly Targeted Chatbot Responses in Israeli Government-Backed Influence Campaign

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ChatGPT users

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 1659
    2 Reports

    Purported Hanover Institute for Public Policy Reportedly Targeted Chatbot Responses in Israeli Government-Backed Influence Campaign

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Chatbot users

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 1659
    2 Reports

    Purported Hanover Institute for Public Policy Reportedly Targeted Chatbot Responses in Israeli Government-Backed Influence Campaign

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Res generative engine optimization platform

Incidents implicated systems
  • Incident 1659
    2 Reports

    Purported Hanover Institute for Public Policy Reportedly Targeted Chatbot Responses in Israeli Government-Backed Influence Campaign

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Perplexity Answer Engine

Incidents implicated systems
  • Incident 1659
    2 Reports

    Purported Hanover Institute for Public Policy Reportedly Targeted Chatbot Responses in Israeli Government-Backed Influence Campaign

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Large language models

Incidents implicated systems
  • Incident 1659
    2 Reports

    Purported Hanover Institute for Public Policy Reportedly Targeted Chatbot Responses in Israeli Government-Backed Influence Campaign

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ChatGPT

Incidents implicated systems
  • Incident 1659
    2 Reports

    Purported Hanover Institute for Public Policy Reportedly Targeted Chatbot Responses in Israeli Government-Backed Influence Campaign

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Chatbots

Incidents implicated systems
  • Incident 1659
    2 Reports

    Purported Hanover Institute for Public Policy Reportedly Targeted Chatbot Responses in Israeli Government-Backed Influence Campaign

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