Israel's Diaspora Affairs Ministry financed and planned an influence operation to target US lawmakers and the general US public, according to a New York Times report on Wednesday.According to the report, the operation included the circulation of pro-Israel content via social media using ChatGPT and three false English news sites, among others.

An Italian court on Wednesday found American Amanda Knox guilty of slander and issued a three-year sentence over accusations she made in relation to the murder of her British flatmate in Perugia in 2007.Knox had been sentenced to three years for wrongly accusing Congolese bar owner Patrick Lumumba of the killing of Meredith Kercher in an earlier case. Knox had spent four years in jail for the killing but that conviction was annulled in 2015.The sentence will have no practical impact as it is covered by the time Knox has spent in jail.