The Answer Was Already Paid For
A text arrives from “Friends for Peace,” a group that doesn’t exist. It’s one thread in Israel’s $730 million public diplomacy budget, which also bought 18 million views on videos calling Gaza’s documented famine a lie, and a $46.5-million contract to shape what AI chatbots tell you when you ask. Nancy Perin follows the money from a stranger’s text message to the training data behind your last search and traces a pattern that failed once before, now returning at a different scale.
