Al Jazeera reported that Benjamin Netanyahu and rival political camps were tied days before the vote, as competing sides used bots, deepfakes and data in their online campaigning. The report did not identify an exact election date in the supplied material.
La Repubblica reported, citing Tel Aviv University, that 13 percent of content published by politicians and parties during the campaign was created with AI. It also reported that 70 percent of the identified AI-generated content came from Netanyahu’s Likud party. Those figures are attributed to the university through La Repubblica and are not independently verified in the supplied material.
The reports establish the use of these online campaign tactics but do not establish whether the activity was illegal or unauthorized. They also do not specify the full identity of Netanyahu’s rivals or the precise methods used by each political camp.