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Journalist Says 4,000 Fake AI News Websites Created to Game Google Algorithms

GREATER VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA, JUL 10 – Over 4,000 AI-generated fake news websites exploit Google Discover to boost ad revenue and manipulate search rankings, threatening real publishers' financial sustainability, says journalist Jean-Marc Manach.

Summary by Press Gazette
More than 4,000 fake news websites powered by generative AI have been set up to game Google Discover and search, according to award-winning French journalist Jean-Marc Manach. The sites are largely in French, but there are already at least 100 in English, and this could be the “tip of the iceberg” Manach told Press Gazette. The creators of the fake news sites, which spew AI-written articles plagiarised from other sites or which are simply made u…

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thegoodnewsroom.org broke the news in on Thursday, July 10, 2025.
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