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Brad Parscale's ClockTowerX accused of AI poisoning and propaganda campaign

ClockTowerX, an organization led by Brad Parscale, is allegedly engaging in a coordinated effort to manipulate search engines and AI chatbots. This campaign reportedly involves infiltrating common crawl data with propaganda, particularly concerning Israel, since October 2025. The stated goal of this operation is to improve the organization's international public image. AI

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Brad Parscale's ClockTowerX accused of AI poisoning and propaganda campaign

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  1. Mastodon — mastodon.social TIER_1 English(EN) · [email protected] ·

    # ClockTowerX run by # BradParscale is poisoning search engines, automated web crawlers & # AI chatbots, & infiltrating common crawl w/ # propaganda by # Israel

    # ClockTowerX run by # BradParscale is poisoning search engines, automated web crawlers & # AI chatbots, & infiltrating common crawl w/ # propaganda by # Israel since Oct 2025 to fix its degrading international public image. http:// paxpoint.org/ https:// allyvia.org/ https:// fa…