Episode Details

A high-stakes look at how political influence operations are targeting the very systems that answer our questions. In this condensed version of Breaking Points, hosts Krystal Ball and Saagar Enjeti speak with Nick Cleveland Stout of the Quincy Institute about claims that Israel is funding a large-scale campaign to shape chatbot outputs through AI training data and LLM poisoning. The full episode is turned into a fast, focused summary so you can get the key ideas in minutes instead of the full-length discussion. Learn how Brad Parscale’s role, Common Crawl indexing, and propaganda-style websites may be influencing models like Perplexity, Google Gemini, Microsoft Copilot, ChatGPT, and Claude. The conversation also explores Hasbara, misinformation, media literacy, and why this tactic could reshape global geopolitics and digital persuasion. Listen now to get the key ideas in minutes.