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Pro-Israel AI Bot Goes Off the Rails, Calls IDF Soldiers "Colonizers" and Demands Palestinian Statehood
Buy-n-Shoot NewsCritical Thinking A pro-Israel social media bot appears to experience occasional political shifts that result in it criticizing the Israeli and American governments for the ongoing war in Palestine. As Haaretz reports, the @FactFinderAI X account is, for the most part, a pretty bald example of "hasbara," the Hebrew word for "explain" that's used to describe pro-Israel digital campaigning efforts. At random points, however, the anonymously-created bot will change its tune and start criticizing the country it was blatantly built to boost. In a post from August 2024, for instance, the account responded to a since-deleted tweet by tagging a Palestinian […]
