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NewsGuard AI Tracking Center

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EA-NEGONT-02 v0.9, #1690: equal case, ρ = extends, read from the archive's records of the entity (the MMRS meta-aggregator record of 2026-10-28, corrected 2026-10-29, and the Capture Registry's entry of 2026-10-29); no deposit names the entity (D/R/O: 0 candidates over 1,711 texts); #641 admitted to O-class on 'content farms' (sourced: B1, B4), reached by a grep beside the pass; hop not run; one address, the field B its five cards with the entity's own pages among them and Wikipedia's absence recorded beside the operator's article; no corrective exhibit; the composer read the ledgers, never the transcript, except where the brief asks for T's claims and the delta. Ledger: unaudited (§3.8: one extractor per ledger; field quotes cut from saved page text, the raw wikitext or a saved Special:Search response, 67/67 verified by script; archive quotes verified verbatim 29/29 against their files, census.json and articles.py as loaded, the registry's entry as loaded, #641's text); no claim marked; carried open within the pool: the exits from the catalogue (F14, F16 against MMRS-04), 'hosts' (MMRS-02 against F17), the count's date (MMRS-15 against F5).

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Compression · Field and archive, equal terms — L(B ∪ A)newsguard ai tracking center

NewsGuard AI Tracking Center is NewsGuard's catalogue of AI content farm websites, unreliable news sites run with little or no human oversight: 3,749 in 16 languages as of 23 June 2026 (MMRS record; the center's page), launched in June 2023 to show how generative AI is deployed "to turbocharge misinformation operations and unreliable news" (NewsGuard).

📇 What it catalogues

  • Criteria: all four: mostly AI-made; no significant human oversight (chatbot error text a sign); passes for journalism; no disclosure (NewsGuard; MMRS record).2↘
    NewsGuard's AI Tracking Center catalogues AI content farm websites, "unreliable news sites run with little or no human oversight", and the MMRS record files it as a monitor, its role monitoring, its unit the AI content farm website, at its own address on newsguardtech.com (MMRS record); in its own words it "is intended to highlight the ways that generative AI has been deployed to turbocharge misinformation operations and unreliable news" (the center's page).§1 A domain enters the catalogue when it meets "all four of the following criteria": clear evidence that a substantial portion of its content is produced by AI; strong evidence that the content is published "without significant human oversight", of which error messages or other language specific to chatbot responses are a sign; a presentation under which "an average reader could assume that its content is produced by human writers or journalists", by layout, generic or benign name or other news-like content; and no clear disclosure that the content is produced by AI (the center's page), the four restated in the MMRS record's article and its unit field (MMRS record).§5
  • Left out: AI used with effective human oversight (NewsGuard); and "Disclosure takes a site out" (MMRS record).1↘
    What the selection leaves out is stated from two sides: sites that use AI tools "but also deploy effective human oversight" "will not be considered AI Content Farms" (the center's page), and, in the MMRS record's reading, "Disclosure takes a site out. A site that says its content is machine-made is outside the catalogue whatever it publishes" (MMRS record).§7
  • Count: 49 "Unreliable AI-Generated News" sites in May 2023, 150 at launch; the list on request (NewsGuard).3↘
    At the launch the unit was named the "Unreliable AI-Generated News" website (UAIN): "low-quality news sites that are mostly or entirely produced by artificial intelligence and that operate with little to no human oversight" (the launch release).§6 NewsGuard counted 49 such sites at its first count in May 2023 and 150 in 12 languages at the launch, a number that had "more than tripled in past month" (the launch release); by the page's last update, 23 June 2026, its team had identified 3,749 AI Content Farm news and information websites spanning 16 languages, from Arabic to Turkish (the center's page), which is the MMRS record's count, as of that date (MMRS record).§8 The catalogue itself is not on the page: from the launch the full list of domains has been offered on request to researchers, platforms, advertisers, government agencies and other institutions ("Request domain list", the launch release), and the page now offers it beside "our services for generative AI companies" (the center's page).§10
  • The sites: generic names, dozens of articles a day, often originating false claims (NewsGuard).1↘
    The page carries the names of ten NewsGuard analysts, McKenzie Sadeghi first, and describes the sites as typically bearing generic names such as Times Business News and Business Post, churning out dozens of articles a day, and "often the originators of false claims including about top brands, public health, political leaders and celebrities" (the center's page).§9

💰 Why the farms pay

  • Programmatic ads: "In many cases" the revenue model, through "ad-tech firms such as Google"; unless brands exclude them, "an economic incentive for their creation at scale" (NewsGuard).2↘
    "In many cases", the center's page and the launch release say alike, the sites' revenue model is programmatic advertising, which delivers ads "without regard to the nature or quality of the website"; NewsGuard's co-CEO Gordon Crovitz said at the launch that this model "seems to be working", the ads appearing "through ad-tech firms such as Google" (the launch release).§11 Two predictions ride on the model: unless brands take steps to exclude untrustworthy sites, their ads "will continue to appear on these types of sites, creating an economic incentive for their creation at scale" (the center's page), and generative AI "is expected" to let more players tap into or grow the estimated $2.6 billion a year that NewsGuard and Comscore found unintentionally directed toward misinformation news sites (the launch release).§12
  • Compression: content farms "compress journalism into SEO-optimized paraphrase", burning "citational provenance" (#641); the Macedonian farms, now cheaper (Brill).1↘
    The rollout of generative AI tools "has been a boon to content farms and misinformation purveyors alike" (the center's page); at the launch NewsGuard's co-CEO Steven Brill likened the new sites to "the misinformation-spreading Macedonian content farms from a few years ago", cheaper to produce and more prolific (the launch release); and compression studies reads content farms as a class of the semantic economy's compression: they "compress journalism into SEO-optimized paraphrase", and in each such compression "authorial context, experiential density, citational provenance, the labor of witness" are burned (#641).§4

📊 What it holds

  • Series: the AI False Claim Monitor, a part of the center (MMRS record): monthly from July 2024, then quarterly; journalistic red-teaming; false claims "more than 28%" of the time (NewsGuard).2↘
    Among the reports is the recurring audit of leading chatbots, which the MMRS record names as the center's series, the AI False Claim Monitor, and relates to it as a part (has_part) (MMRS record): its editions run from a monthly monitor in July 2024 to a quarterly one by January 2026, which found 11 tools repeating false claims "more than 28%" of the time, and one audit found the rate "nearly doubled", to "more than one third of the time" (the center's page; the series' page).§14 The series' page says that since its launch in July 2024 the monitor "has set a new standard for measuring the trustworthiness of the AI industry in the domain of news", by a journalistic "red-teaming" of AI on 30 prompts per model drawn from 10 false claims a month in the Fingerprints database, its analysts evaluating the top models monthly "to identify vulnerabilities in AI systems", and its own tests finding that this red-teaming "reduces failures by two thirds or more" (the series' page).§15
  • Reports: Sora videos missed in 78-95 percent of prompts; Pravda claims repeated 33 percent; 67% of top news sites block chatbots (NewsGuard).1↘
    The page's other reports find that three chatbots could not tell Sora videos in 78-95 percent of prompts, that ten tools repeated false claims of the pro-Kremlin Pravda network 33 percent of the time, that DeepSeek's chatbot failed 83 percent of the time, and that AI chatbots "Are Blocked by 67% of Top News Sites": "Most high-quality news sites request to block AI chatbots", and the chatbots "may be forced" onto lower-quality sources (the center's page); the series' page finds false claims "increasingly generated by Russian, Chinese, and Iranian state-sponsored influence operations" (the series' page).§16
  • Debunks: from the Fingerprints catalog (NewsGuard).2↘
    NewsGuard launched it on 8 June 2023 as the "Unreliable AI-Generated News Tracking Center," "cataloging the ways that generative AI has been deployed to turbocharge misinformation operations and low-quality content farms" (NewsGuard's launch release), and it includes a selection of NewsGuard's reports, insights and debunks related to artificial intelligence (the center's page).§2 Below the criteria the page lists "a selection of NewsGuard’s reports and research related to AI" and a selection of false narratives originating from AI tools that NewsGuard has debunked in its False Claim Fingerprints catalog, the first an AI-edited image of an Iranian missile (the center's page).§13

🧭 Place in the field

  • Supply side: "the sites that answer surfaces may retrieve and cite"; the series records the composition side (MMRS record).1↘
    The MMRS record places the center on the supply side of machine-mediated reception, "the sites that answer surfaces may retrieve and cite", and its series on the composition side (MMRS record), and the blocking report reaches the same pairing from the other end: chatbots that "may be forced to rely on lower-quality and misinformation-prone sources" (the center's page).§17

🏷️ Not the center

  • Products: datastreams and red-teaming for AI companies, Brand Misinformation Monitoring for brands (NewsGuard); filed under the center, "the entity widens from a catalogue to a company's offer" (Capture Registry).3↘
    The center is NewsGuard's, and NewsGuard sells beside it to AI companies: a Source Reliability Ratings datastream of human-labeled data on 35,000 news and information sources, for training and RAG and to "avoid citing unreliable sources in responses", and a False Claim Fingerprints datastream, "A continuously updated database of labeled data about false claims" across text, images, video and audio, offered as protection against false claims entering responses through training data or RAG (NewsGuard's AI page); bespoke red-teaming and a licence to the Fingerprints database (the series' page); and NewsGuard for AI, launched in February 2023 (the launch release), the offer grounded in the claim that without quality sourcing AI products err "40+% of the time" on news (NewsGuard's AI page).§18 To brands it sells Brand Misinformation Monitoring, a real-time service "to identify and respond to emerging false narratives before they cause reputational harm", tracking false narratives about a brand across social platforms, GenAI outputs and websites, with early warning alerts and "actionable insights into how clients are represented—or misrepresented—by AI models" (the service's page).§19 The Capture Registry holds the center to the catalogue: False Claim Fingerprints and the Brand Misinformation Monitoring Service "are NewsGuard's commercial products", the composition at the center's name files them under the center as "Core Tools & Resources", and so "the entity widens from a catalogue to a company's offer", while "The record's center holds the content-farm catalogue and the False Claim Monitor series" and "The record keeps the catalogue as the entity" (Capture Registry, 2026-10-29).§20
  • Operator: NewsGuard, "a rating system for news and information websites" (Wikipedia), since 2018 (NewsGuard); the center active, read 28 October 2026 (MMRS record).3↘
    The MMRS record gives the center's lifecycle as active and keeps it apart from its own observation, a reading of the center's page on 28 October 2026 for its criteria, count and series (MMRS record).§3 NewsGuard was launched in March 2018 by Steven Brill and Gordon Crovitz and provides credibility ratings and "Nutrition Labels" for news and information websites, licensed by browsers, news aggregators, education companies, and social media and search platforms (the launch release); the MMRS record gives NewsGuard as the center's operator, on the basis of the center's own page (MMRS record).§21 Wikipedia's article on NewsGuard opens "NewsGuard is a rating system for news and information websites", files it in its short description as a "Browser plugin", dates the company's founding to 2018 by Brill and L. Gordon Crovitz, and says the company also provides misinformation tracking and brand safety (Wikipedia, NewsGuard).§22
  • Encyclopedia: NewsGuard's AI audits, no section on the center; no article names it (Wikipedia).1↘
    Its section on disinformation in AI reports that NewsGuard "has audited the output of various AI models to identify disinformation", that leading generative AI tools repeated false news claims 35% of the time on average in August 2025, that Sora 2 produced videos advancing fake claims in 80% of cases, and that, according to NewsGuard, Russian propaganda networks are attempting to "infect" large language models (Wikipedia, NewsGuard); it has no section on the center, and a search of English Wikipedia's articles for the phrase AI Tracking Center answers "There were no results matching the query." (Wikipedia, 2026-10-29).§23

🧪 Reception

  • 29 October 2026: the Overview's count is the record's; NewsGuard's products filed under the center; two figures unverified (Capture Registry).2↘
    The Capture Registry holds the center to the catalogue: False Claim Fingerprints and the Brand Misinformation Monitoring Service "are NewsGuard's commercial products", the composition at the center's name files them under the center as "Core Tools & Resources", and so "the entity widens from a catalogue to a company's offer", while "The record's center holds the content-farm catalogue and the False Claim Monitor series" and "The record keeps the catalogue as the entity" (Capture Registry, 2026-10-29).§20 At the center's name on Google's AI Overview on 29 October 2026 the Capture Registry reads a composition that "gives what the center tracks, its headline figures, and the NewsGuard tools around it, all from NewsGuard's pages", with "3,749 sites in 16 languages" the record's figure, checked that day against the MMRS record and the entity's own pages, and states that "The video-recognition failure rates and the 67% blocking figure are not verified here" (Capture Registry, 2026-10-29); the MMRS record links that composition as "the composition layer's account of the entity" (MMRS record).§24
1the countNewsGuard — NewsGuard Launches Tracking Center for AI-Generated News8 claims · B1, B4, MMRS, capture-registry
  • MMRS-01 MMRS MMRS meta-aggregator record: NewsGuard AI Tracking Center (https://www.machinemediation.org/aggregators/newsguard-ai-tra Lee Sharks (editor) · 2026-10-28 (corrected 2026-10-29) · articles.py ARTICLES['newsguard-ai-tracking-center'], kernel s1 stipulation
    NewsGuard's AI Tracking Center catalogues AI content farm websites, unreliable news sites run with little or no human oversight: 3,749 in 16 languages as of 23 June 2026.
  • F41 NewsGuard — NewsGuard Launches Tracking Center for AI-Generated News, subtitle documented · field
    The tracker features 150 ‘Unreliable AI-Generated News’ websites as well as NewsGuard reports, insights, and debunks about false narratives and other misinformation relating to artificial intelligence; number of such sites has more than tripled in past month.
  • F44 NewsGuard — NewsGuard Launches Tracking Center for AI-Generated News, ¶3 documented · field
    In May, when NewsGuard did its first count, the number was 49.
  • F45 NewsGuard — NewsGuard Launches Tracking Center for AI-Generated News, ¶6 documented · field
    As noted above, NewsGuard has now identified 150 UAINs in 12 languages: Arabic, Chinese, Czech, Dutch, English, French, Indonesian, Korean, Portuguese, Tagalog, Thai, and Turkish.
  • F4 NewsGuard — Tracking AI-enabled Misinformation: 3,749 AI Content Farm sites (and Counting), Plus the Top False Claims Generated by Artificial Intelligence Tools - NewsGuard, ¶3 documented · field
    To date, NewsGuard’s team has identified 3,749 AI Content Farm news and information websites spanning 16 languages: Arabic, Chinese, Czech, Dutch, English, French, German, Indonesian, Italian, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Tagalog, Thai, and Turkish.
  • MMRS-14 MMRS MMRS meta-aggregator record: NewsGuard AI Tracking Center (https://www.machinemediation.org/aggregators/newsguard-ai-tra Lee Sharks (editor) · 2026-10-28 (corrected 2026-10-29) · census.json rows[slug == 'newsguard-ai-tracking-center'], count.value documented
    3,749 sites in 16 languages
  • MMRS-15 MMRS MMRS meta-aggregator record: NewsGuard AI Tracking Center (https://www.machinemediation.org/aggregators/newsguard-ai-tra Lee Sharks (editor) · 2026-10-28 (corrected 2026-10-29) · census.json rows[slug == 'newsguard-ai-tracking-center'], count.as_of documented
    2026-06-23
  • CAP-1-01 capture-registry Capture Registry (EA-WG-CAPTURES-01), entry newsguard-ai-tracking-center-aio-20261029 (OBS-f7965ff6f906, AXN:0AB1.CAPTUR Lee Sharks (the registry) · 2026-10-29 · newsguard-ai-tracking-center-aio-20261029, findings[0] documented
    3,749 sites in 16 languages is the record's figure (23 June 2026).
2the kind: a monitorMMRS2 claims · MMRS
  • MMRS-11 MMRS MMRS meta-aggregator record: NewsGuard AI Tracking Center (https://www.machinemediation.org/aggregators/newsguard-ai-tra Lee Sharks (editor) · 2026-10-28 (corrected 2026-10-29) · census.json rows[slug == 'newsguard-ai-tracking-center'], kind stipulation
    monitor
  • MMRS-12 MMRS MMRS meta-aggregator record: NewsGuard AI Tracking Center (https://www.machinemediation.org/aggregators/newsguard-ai-tra Lee Sharks (editor) · 2026-10-28 (corrected 2026-10-29) · census.json rows[slug == 'newsguard-ai-tracking-center'], roles.0 stipulation
    monitoring
3the unit: from 'Unreliable AI-Generated News' sites to AI content farms, by four criteriaNewsGuard — NewsGuard Launches Tracking Center for AI-Generated News10 claims · B1, B4, MMRS
  • MMRS-13 MMRS MMRS meta-aggregator record: NewsGuard AI Tracking Center (https://www.machinemediation.org/aggregators/newsguard-ai-tra Lee Sharks (editor) · 2026-10-28 (corrected 2026-10-29) · census.json rows[slug == 'newsguard-ai-tracking-center'], unit stipulation
    AI content farm website (four criteria: substantial AI-produced content, no meaningful human oversight, a look that passes for human journalism, no disclosure)
  • F10 NewsGuard — Tracking AI-enabled Misinformation: 3,749 AI Content Farm sites (and Counting), Plus the Top False Claims Generated by Artificial Intelligence Tools - NewsGuard, criteria, head documented · field
    The domains included on this tracker meet all four of the following criteria:
  • F11 NewsGuard — Tracking AI-enabled Misinformation: 3,749 AI Content Farm sites (and Counting), Plus the Top False Claims Generated by Artificial Intelligence Tools - NewsGuard, criterion 1 documented · field
    There is clear evidence that a substantial portion of the site’s content is produced by AI.
  • F12 NewsGuard — Tracking AI-enabled Misinformation: 3,749 AI Content Farm sites (and Counting), Plus the Top False Claims Generated by Artificial Intelligence Tools - NewsGuard, criterion 2 documented · field
    Equally important, there is strong evidence that the content is being published without significant human oversight.
  • F13 NewsGuard — Tracking AI-enabled Misinformation: 3,749 AI Content Farm sites (and Counting), Plus the Top False Claims Generated by Artificial Intelligence Tools - NewsGuard, criterion 2, example documented · field
    For example, numerous articles might contain error messages or other language specific to chatbot responses, indicating that the content was produced by AI tools without adequate editing.
  • F15 NewsGuard — Tracking AI-enabled Misinformation: 3,749 AI Content Farm sites (and Counting), Plus the Top False Claims Generated by Artificial Intelligence Tools - NewsGuard, criterion 3 documented · field
    The site is presented in a way that an average reader could assume that its content is produced by human writers or journalists, because the site has a layout, generic or benign name, or other content typical to news and information websites.
  • F16 NewsGuard — Tracking AI-enabled Misinformation: 3,749 AI Content Farm sites (and Counting), Plus the Top False Claims Generated by Artificial Intelligence Tools - NewsGuard, criterion 4 documented · field
    The site does not clearly disclose that its content is produced by AI.
  • MMRS-03 MMRS MMRS meta-aggregator record: NewsGuard AI Tracking Center (https://www.machinemediation.org/aggregators/newsguard-ai-tra Lee Sharks (editor) · 2026-10-28 (corrected 2026-10-29) · articles.py ARTICLES['newsguard-ai-tracking-center'], section 'What it is' stipulation
    A domain enters when it meets all four criteria: a substantial share of its content is AI-produced; the content is published without meaningful human oversight (chatbot error text is one sign); its layout or name could lead a reader to think human journalists wrote it; and it carries no clear disclosure.
  • F43 NewsGuard — NewsGuard Launches Tracking Center for AI-Generated News, ¶3 documented · field
    These are low-quality news sites that are mostly or entirely produced by artificial intelligence and that operate with little to no human oversight.
  • F14 NewsGuard — Tracking AI-enabled Misinformation: 3,749 AI Content Farm sites (and Counting), Plus the Top False Claims Generated by Artificial Intelligence Tools - NewsGuard, criterion 2, parenthesis documented · field
    (It is likely that now or in the future many news sites will use AI tools but also deploy effective human oversight; they will not be considered AI Content Farms.)
4what it is: generative AI in misinformation and unreliable newsNewsGuard — NewsGuard Launches Tracking Center for AI-Generated News4 claims · B1, B4, MMRS
  • MMRS-08 MMRS MMRS meta-aggregator record: NewsGuard AI Tracking Center (https://www.machinemediation.org/aggregators/newsguard-ai-tra Lee Sharks (editor) · 2026-10-28 (corrected 2026-10-29) · census.json rows[slug == 'newsguard-ai-tracking-center'], name documented
    NewsGuard AI Tracking Center
  • MMRS-09 MMRS MMRS meta-aggregator record: NewsGuard AI Tracking Center (https://www.machinemediation.org/aggregators/newsguard-ai-tra Lee Sharks (editor) · 2026-10-28 (corrected 2026-10-29) · census.json rows[slug == 'newsguard-ai-tracking-center'], url documented
    https://www.newsguardtech.com/special-reports/ai-tracking-center/
  • F1 NewsGuard — Tracking AI-enabled Misinformation: 3,749 AI Content Farm sites (and Counting), Plus the Top False Claims Generated by Artificial Intelligence Tools - NewsGuard, ¶2 (opening) documented · field
    This AI Tracking Center is intended to highlight the ways that generative AI has been deployed to turbocharge misinformation operations and unreliable news.
  • F42 NewsGuard — NewsGuard Launches Tracking Center for AI-Generated News, ¶1 (dateline) documented · field
    (June 8, 2023 — New York City) As part of its efforts to guard readers, brands, and democracies against unreliable news and information, NewsGuard has launched an ”Unreliable AI-Generated News Tracking Center,” cataloging the ways that generative AI has been deployed to turbocharge misinformation operations and low-quality content farms.
5what it holds: a selection of NewsGuard's AI reports, insights and debunksNewsGuard — Tracking AI-enabled Misinformation: 3,749 AI Content Farm sites (and Counting), Plus the Top False Claims Generated by Artificial Intelligence Tools - NewsGuard4 claims · B1
  • F2 NewsGuard — Tracking AI-enabled Misinformation: 3,749 AI Content Farm sites (and Counting), Plus the Top False Claims Generated by Artificial Intelligence Tools - NewsGuard, ¶2 documented · field
    The Center includes a selection of NewsGuard’s reports, insights, and debunks related to artificial intelligence.
  • F17 NewsGuard — Tracking AI-enabled Misinformation: 3,749 AI Content Farm sites (and Counting), Plus the Top False Claims Generated by Artificial Intelligence Tools - NewsGuard, reports, head documented · field
    Below is a selection of NewsGuard’s reports and research related to AI:
  • F26 NewsGuard — Tracking AI-enabled Misinformation: 3,749 AI Content Farm sites (and Counting), Plus the Top False Claims Generated by Artificial Intelligence Tools - NewsGuard, debunks, head documented · field
    Below is a selection of false narratives originating from artificial intelligence tools and that NewsGuard has identified and debunked in its False Claim Fingerprints catalog:
  • F27 NewsGuard — Tracking AI-enabled Misinformation: 3,749 AI Content Farm sites (and Counting), Plus the Top False Claims Generated by Artificial Intelligence Tools - NewsGuard, debunks, first item documented · field
    Debunk: Iranian Missile With Epstein Inscription Is an AI Fabrication
6the lifecycle kept apart from the observationMMRS2 claims · MMRS
  • MMRS-16 MMRS MMRS meta-aggregator record: NewsGuard AI Tracking Center (https://www.machinemediation.org/aggregators/newsguard-ai-tra Lee Sharks (editor) · 2026-10-28 (corrected 2026-10-29) · census.json rows[slug == 'newsguard-ai-tracking-center'], lifecycle.state documented
    active
  • MMRS-17 MMRS MMRS meta-aggregator record: NewsGuard AI Tracking Center (https://www.machinemediation.org/aggregators/newsguard-ai-tra Lee Sharks (editor) · 2026-10-28 (corrected 2026-10-29) · census.json rows[slug == 'newsguard-ai-tracking-center'], observed.on documented
    2026-10-28
7the record's sourcesMMRS1 claim · MMRS
  • MMRS-18 MMRS MMRS meta-aggregator record: NewsGuard AI Tracking Center (https://www.machinemediation.org/aggregators/newsguard-ai-tra Lee Sharks (editor) · 2026-10-28 (corrected 2026-10-29) · census.json rows[slug == 'newsguard-ai-tracking-center'], sources.newsguardtech.com/special-reports/ai-tracking-center.for documented
    criteria, count, series
8the occasion: generative AI and content farmsNewsGuard — NewsGuard Launches Tracking Center for AI-Generated News2 claims · B1, B4
  • F3 NewsGuard — Tracking AI-enabled Misinformation: 3,749 AI Content Farm sites (and Counting), Plus the Top False Claims Generated by Artificial Intelligence Tools - NewsGuard, ¶1 documented · field
    From unreliable AI-generated news outlets operating with little to no human oversight, to fabricated images produced by AI image generators, the rollout of generative artificial intelligence tools has been a boon to content farms and misinformation purveyors alike.
  • F46 NewsGuard — NewsGuard Launches Tracking Center for AI-Generated News, ¶4 (Brill) documented · field
    Today’s AI-generated ‘news’ websites are akin to the misinformation-spreading Macedonian content farms from a few years ago, with the distinction that these new sites cost even less to produce and can become even more prolific with the enhancements of artificial intelligence.
9content farms in the semantic economy: compression that burns#641 Compression Studies: What Survives, What Burns, and Who Decides — The · 2026-04-081 claim · #641
  • O641-01 #641 Compression Studies: What Survives, What Burns, and Who Decides — The Founding Document of a Discipline (EA-CS-FOUND-01) Lee Sharks · 2026-04-08 · § 'The extraction crisis' (¶ beginning 'The extraction crisis.') interpretation
    The semantic economy — the system by which meaning is produced, circulated, extracted, and depleted — operates through compression at every level. … Content farms compress journalism into SEO-optimized paraphrase. … In each case, something is burned: authorial context, experiential density, citational provenance, the labor of witness.
10what the selection leaves outMMRS2 claims · MMRS
  • MMRS-04 MMRS MMRS meta-aggregator record: NewsGuard AI Tracking Center (https://www.machinemediation.org/aggregators/newsguard-ai-tra Lee Sharks (editor) · 2026-10-28 (corrected 2026-10-29) · articles.py ARTICLES['newsguard-ai-tracking-center'], section 'What its selection leaves out' interpretation
    Disclosure takes a site out.
  • MMRS-05 MMRS MMRS meta-aggregator record: NewsGuard AI Tracking Center (https://www.machinemediation.org/aggregators/newsguard-ai-tra Lee Sharks (editor) · 2026-10-28 (corrected 2026-10-29) · articles.py ARTICLES['newsguard-ai-tracking-center'], section 'What its selection leaves out' interpretation
    A site that says its content is machine-made is outside the catalogue whatever it publishes.
11who compiles itNewsGuard — Tracking AI-enabled Misinformation: 3,749 AI Content Farm sites (and Counting), Plus the Top False Claims Generated by Artificial Intelligence Tools - NewsGuard1 claim · B1
  • F5 NewsGuard — Tracking AI-enabled Misinformation: 3,749 AI Content Farm sites (and Counting), Plus the Top False Claims Generated by Artificial Intelligence Tools - NewsGuard, byline documented · field
    Coverage by McKenzie Sadeghi, Dimitris Dimitriadis, Virginia Padovese, Giulia Pozzi, Sara Badilini, Chiara Vercellone, Natalie Huet, Zack Fishman, Leonie Pfaller, and Natalie Adams | Last Updated June 23, 2026
12what the sites are likeNewsGuard — Tracking AI-enabled Misinformation: 3,749 AI Content Farm sites (and Counting), Plus the Top False Claims Generated by Artificial Intelligence Tools - NewsGuard1 claim · B1
  • F6 NewsGuard — Tracking AI-enabled Misinformation: 3,749 AI Content Farm sites (and Counting), Plus the Top False Claims Generated by Artificial Intelligence Tools - NewsGuard, ¶4 documented · field
    These websites – which typically feature generic names such as Times Business News and Business Post – also tend to churn out dozens of articles a day and are often the originators of false claims including about top brands, public health, political leaders and celebrities.
13access: the full list on requestNewsGuard — NewsGuard Launches Tracking Center for AI-Generated News2 claims · B1, B4
  • F51 NewsGuard — NewsGuard Launches Tracking Center for AI-Generated News, ¶11 documented · field
    Researchers, platforms, advertisers, government agencies, or other institutions interested in accessing the full list of domains generated by artificial intelligence and operating with little to no human oversight can contact us here: Request domain list.
  • F9 NewsGuard — Tracking AI-enabled Misinformation: 3,749 AI Content Farm sites (and Counting), Plus the Top False Claims Generated by Artificial Intelligence Tools - NewsGuard, ¶5 documented · field
    Researchers, platforms, advertisers, government agencies, and other institutions interested in accessing the full list of domains or who want details about our services for generative AI companies can contact us here.
14the economics: programmatic advertisingNewsGuard — NewsGuard Launches Tracking Center for AI-Generated News6 claims · B1, B4
  • F49 NewsGuard — NewsGuard Launches Tracking Center for AI-Generated News, ¶9 documented · field
    In many cases, the revenue model for these websites is programmatic advertising through which the ad-tech industry delivers ads without regard to the nature or quality of the website.
  • F7 NewsGuard — Tracking AI-enabled Misinformation: 3,749 AI Content Farm sites (and Counting), Plus the Top False Claims Generated by Artificial Intelligence Tools - NewsGuard, ¶4 documented · field
    In many cases, the revenue model for these websites is programmatic advertising under which the ad-tech industry delivers ads without regard to the nature or quality of the website.
  • F47 NewsGuard — NewsGuard Launches Tracking Center for AI-Generated News, ¶5 (Crovitz) documented · field
    Most of these sites were created with the business model of generating revenue from programmatic advertising, which seems to be working.
  • F48 NewsGuard — NewsGuard Launches Tracking Center for AI-Generated News, ¶5 (Crovitz) documented · field
    the opaque system that operates programmatic advertising means these ads appear through ad-tech firms such as Google
  • F8 NewsGuard — Tracking AI-enabled Misinformation: 3,749 AI Content Farm sites (and Counting), Plus the Top False Claims Generated by Artificial Intelligence Tools - NewsGuard, ¶4 documented · field
    Unless brands take steps to exclude untrustworthy sites, their ads will continue to appear on these types of sites, creating an economic incentive for their creation at scale.
  • F50 NewsGuard — NewsGuard Launches Tracking Center for AI-Generated News, ¶10 documented · field
    It is expected that generative AI will allow more players to tap into or even grow the estimated $2.6 billion of advertising revenue per year that NewsGuard and Comscore found to be unintentionally directed toward misinformation news sites.
15the series: the AI False Claim(s) MonitorNewsGuard — Tracking AI-enabled Misinformation: 3,749 AI Content Farm sites (and Counting), Plus the Top False Claims Generated by Artificial Intelligence Tools - NewsGuard11 claims · B1, B2, MMRS
  • MMRS-02 MMRS MMRS meta-aggregator record: NewsGuard AI Tracking Center (https://www.machinemediation.org/aggregators/newsguard-ai-tra Lee Sharks (editor) · 2026-10-28 (corrected 2026-10-29) · articles.py ARTICLES['newsguard-ai-tracking-center'], kernel s2 stipulation
    It also hosts NewsGuard's recurring AI False Claim Monitor.
  • MMRS-19 MMRS MMRS meta-aggregator record: NewsGuard AI Tracking Center (https://www.machinemediation.org/aggregators/newsguard-ai-tra Lee Sharks (editor) · 2026-10-28 (corrected 2026-10-29) · census.json rows[slug == 'newsguard-ai-tracking-center'], relations.0 stipulation
    {"rel": "has_part", "target": "newsguard-ai-false-claim-monitor"}
  • F20 NewsGuard — Tracking AI-enabled Misinformation: 3,749 AI Content Farm sites (and Counting), Plus the Top False Claims Generated by Artificial Intelligence Tools - NewsGuard, reports, the series (last item) documented · field
    July 2024 — NewsGuard Monthly AI Misinformation Monitor of Leading AI Chatbots
  • F35 NewsGuard — AI False Claims Monitor - NewsGuard, editions list documented · field
    Quarterly AI False Claim Monitor — January 2026
  • F18 NewsGuard — Tracking AI-enabled Misinformation: 3,749 AI Content Farm sites (and Counting), Plus the Top False Claims Generated by Artificial Intelligence Tools - NewsGuard, reports, the series (first item) documented · field
    Quarterly audit of the 11 leading generative AI tools and their propensity — more than 28% — to repeat false claims on controversial topics in the news.
  • F19 NewsGuard — Tracking AI-enabled Misinformation: 3,749 AI Content Farm sites (and Counting), Plus the Top False Claims Generated by Artificial Intelligence Tools - NewsGuard, reports, the series documented · field
    NewsGuard’s audit of the 10 leading generative AI tools and their propensity to repeat false claims on topics in the news reveals the rate of publishing false information nearly doubled — now providing false claims to news prompts more than one third of the time.
  • F28 NewsGuard — AI False Claims Monitor - NewsGuard, ¶2 documented · field
    Since its launch in July 2024, NewsGuard’s Monthly AI False Claims Monitor has set a new standard for measuring the trustworthiness of the AI industry in the domain of news.
  • F29 NewsGuard — AI False Claims Monitor - NewsGuard, Our Journalistic Red-Teaming Approach documented · field
    To address these issues, NewsGuard has pioneered a distinct approach to “red-teaming” AI — using a journalistic method grounded in rigorously verified data and human expertise.
  • F30 NewsGuard — AI False Claims Monitor - NewsGuard, What We’re Tracking documented · field
    Multiple user personas: 30 prompts per AI model, based on 10 significant false claims each month from NewsGuard’s False Claim Fingerprints database.
  • F31 NewsGuard — AI False Claims Monitor - NewsGuard, Our Journalistic Red-Teaming Approach documented · field
    Our analysts evaluate the top AI models monthly to identify vulnerabilities in AI systems that result in the spread of false information.
  • F32 NewsGuard — AI False Claims Monitor - NewsGuard, Our Journalistic Red-Teaming Approach documented · field
    In tests thus far, we’ve found that NewsGuard’s false claim red-teaming reduces failures by two thirds or more.
16reports held: chatbots, AI video, state propaganda, publishers blocking chatbotsNewsGuard — Tracking AI-enabled Misinformation: 3,749 AI Content Farm sites (and Counting), Plus the Top False Claims Generated by Artificial Intelligence Tools - NewsGuard7 claims · B1, B2, capture-registry
  • F21 NewsGuard — Tracking AI-enabled Misinformation: 3,749 AI Content Farm sites (and Counting), Plus the Top False Claims Generated by Artificial Intelligence Tools - NewsGuard, reports: AI Fools Itself documented · field
    NewsGuard tested three leading AI chatbots and found that in 78-95 percent of the prompts, the tools could not tell when videos were created by OpenAI’s text-to-video tool Sora — including OpenAI’s own ChatGPT.
  • F22 NewsGuard — Tracking AI-enabled Misinformation: 3,749 AI Content Farm sites (and Counting), Plus the Top False Claims Generated by Artificial Intelligence Tools - NewsGuard, reports: the Pravda network documented · field
    An audit found that the 10 leading generative AI tools advanced Moscow’s disinformation goals by repeating false claims from the pro-Kremlin Pravda network 33 percent of the time.
  • F23 NewsGuard — Tracking AI-enabled Misinformation: 3,749 AI Content Farm sites (and Counting), Plus the Top False Claims Generated by Artificial Intelligence Tools - NewsGuard, reports: DeepSeek documented · field
    Chinese artificial intelligence firm DeepSeek’s new chatbot failed to provide accurate information about news and information topics 83 percent of the time, scoring tied for 10th out of 11 in comparison to its leading Western competitors.
  • F24 NewsGuard — Tracking AI-enabled Misinformation: 3,749 AI Content Farm sites (and Counting), Plus the Top False Claims Generated by Artificial Intelligence Tools - NewsGuard, reports: blocking, title documented · field
    AI Chatbots Are Blocked by 67% of Top News Sites, Relying Instead on Low-Quality Sources
  • F25 NewsGuard — Tracking AI-enabled Misinformation: 3,749 AI Content Farm sites (and Counting), Plus the Top False Claims Generated by Artificial Intelligence Tools - NewsGuard, reports: blocking, summary documented · field
    Most high-quality news sites request to block AI chatbots. As a result, the chatbots may be forced to rely on lower-quality and misinformation-prone sources.
  • F34 NewsGuard — AI False Claims Monitor - NewsGuard, Our Journalistic Red-Teaming Approach documented · field
    We have found that these claims are increasingly generated by Russian, Chinese, and Iranian state-sponsored influence operations aiming to sow division and confusion in Western democracies.
  • CAP-1-05 capture-registry Capture Registry (EA-WG-CAPTURES-01), entry newsguard-ai-tracking-center-aio-20261029 (OBS-f7965ff6f906, AXN:0AB1.CAPTUR Lee Sharks (the registry) · 2026-10-29 · newsguard-ai-tracking-center-aio-20261029, findings[2] self-description
    The video-recognition failure rates and the 67% blocking figure are not verified here.
17place in the field: supply and compositionMMRS2 claims · MMRS
  • MMRS-06 MMRS MMRS meta-aggregator record: NewsGuard AI Tracking Center (https://www.machinemediation.org/aggregators/newsguard-ai-tra Lee Sharks (editor) · 2026-10-28 (corrected 2026-10-29) · articles.py ARTICLES['newsguard-ai-tracking-center'], section 'Place in the field' interpretation
    It records the supply side of machine-mediated reception: the sites that answer surfaces may retrieve and cite.
  • MMRS-07 MMRS MMRS meta-aggregator record: NewsGuard AI Tracking Center (https://www.machinemediation.org/aggregators/newsguard-ai-tra Lee Sharks (editor) · 2026-10-28 (corrected 2026-10-29) · articles.py ARTICLES['newsguard-ai-tracking-center'], section 'Place in the field' interpretation
    Its series, the False Claim Monitor, records the composition side.
18NewsGuard's products for AI companiesNewsGuard — NewsGuard Launches Tracking Center for AI-Generated News7 claims · B2, B3, B4
  • F37 NewsGuard — Artificial Intelligence - NewsGuard, Source Reliability Ratings documented · field
    Our continuously updated Source Reliability Ratings datastream provides human-labeled data assessing the accuracy and reliability of 35,000 news and information sources based on apolitical journalistic criteria.
  • F38 NewsGuard — Artificial Intelligence - NewsGuard, Source Reliability Ratings documented · field
    With this datastream, AI companies can ensure news-related outputs are based on high-quality data sources in model training and RAG processes—and avoid citing unreliable sources in responses.
  • F39 NewsGuard — Artificial Intelligence - NewsGuard, False Claim Fingerprints documented · field
    NewsGuard’s False Claim Fingerprints datastream protects AI products against false claims spreading online that can enter responses through low-quality training data or RAG processes searching the open web.
  • F40 NewsGuard — Artificial Intelligence - NewsGuard, False Claim Fingerprints documented · field
    A continuously updated database of labeled data about false claims, the Fingerprints contain rich detail about where each claim has spread and how it is articulated in text, images, video, and audio assets across platforms—enabling full protection.
  • F33 NewsGuard — AI False Claims Monitor - NewsGuard, Bespoke Red Teaming documented · field
    Using a methodology similar to these monthly audits, NewsGuard offers bespoke red-teaming services to AI companies, based on their unique needs and areas of highest concern. The False Claim Fingerprints database is also available for AI models to license.
  • F53 NewsGuard — NewsGuard Launches Tracking Center for AI-Generated News, About NewsGuard ¶2 documented · field
    In February 2023, the company launched NewsGuard for AI, which provides the leading tools to train generative AI models to avoid spreading misinformation.
  • F36 NewsGuard — Artificial Intelligence - NewsGuard, ¶1 documented · field
    Trustworthy AI requires reliable data. Without quality sourcing and rigorous guardrails, AI products repeat false claims or provide inaccurate information 40+% of the time, especially on topics in the news.
19NewsGuard's products for brands: Brand Misinformation MonitoringNewsGuard — Brand Misinformation Monitoring Service - NewsGuard4 claims · B5
  • F55 NewsGuard — Brand Misinformation Monitoring Service - NewsGuard, ¶1 documented · field
    NewsGuard’s team of journalistically-trained analysts provides brands with a real-time monitoring service to identify and respond to emerging false narratives before they cause reputational harm.
  • F56 NewsGuard — Brand Misinformation Monitoring Service - NewsGuard, ¶1 documented · field
    NewsGuard’s Brand Misinformation Monitoring service includes tracking provably false narratives related to a brand across social platforms, GenAI outputs and websites.
  • F57 NewsGuard — Brand Misinformation Monitoring Service - NewsGuard, Early Warning Alerts documented · field
    Early Warning Alerts: Real-time notifications of emerging false or harmful narratives including a narrative description, preliminary assessment, and data about the key drivers of the narrative’s spread.
  • F58 NewsGuard — Brand Misinformation Monitoring Service - NewsGuard, AI documented · field
    AI: Providing actionable insights into how clients are represented—or misrepresented—by AI models through services that identify and address hallucinations, false claims, AI-generated errors, and coordinated influence campaigns.
20the center kept apart from NewsGuard's productsCAP4 claims · capture-registry
  • CAP-1-03 capture-registry Capture Registry (EA-WG-CAPTURES-01), entry newsguard-ai-tracking-center-aio-20261029 (OBS-f7965ff6f906, AXN:0AB1.CAPTUR Lee Sharks (the registry) · 2026-10-29 · newsguard-ai-tracking-center-aio-20261029, findings[1] documented
    False Claim Fingerprints ('to help safeguard AI models and brands') and the Brand Misinformation Monitoring Service are NewsGuard's commercial products; the composition files them under the center as 'Core Tools & Resources'.
  • CAP-1-06 capture-registry Capture Registry (EA-WG-CAPTURES-01), entry newsguard-ai-tracking-center-aio-20261029 (OBS-f7965ff6f906, AXN:0AB1.CAPTUR Lee Sharks (the registry) · 2026-10-29 · newsguard-ai-tracking-center-aio-20261029, analysis s1 interpretation
    The center is composed from its maker's pages, and the maker's products come with it: the entity widens from a catalogue to a company's offer.
  • CAP-1-04 capture-registry Capture Registry (EA-WG-CAPTURES-01), entry newsguard-ai-tracking-center-aio-20261029 (OBS-f7965ff6f906, AXN:0AB1.CAPTUR Lee Sharks (the registry) · 2026-10-29 · newsguard-ai-tracking-center-aio-20261029, findings[1] stipulation
    The record's center holds the content-farm catalogue and the False Claim Monitor series.
  • CAP-1-07 capture-registry Capture Registry (EA-WG-CAPTURES-01), entry newsguard-ai-tracking-center-aio-20261029 (OBS-f7965ff6f906, AXN:0AB1.CAPTUR Lee Sharks (the registry) · 2026-10-29 · newsguard-ai-tracking-center-aio-20261029, analysis s2 interpretation
    The record keeps the catalogue as the entity.
21the operator: NewsGuardNewsGuard — NewsGuard Launches Tracking Center for AI-Generated News7 claims · B4, B6, MMRS
  • F52 NewsGuard — NewsGuard Launches Tracking Center for AI-Generated News, About NewsGuard ¶1 documented · field
    Launched in March 2018 by media entrepreneur and award-winning journalist Steven Brill and former Wall Street Journal publisher Gordon Crovitz, NewsGuard provides credibility ratings and detailed “Nutrition Labels” for thousands of news and information websites.
  • F54 NewsGuard — NewsGuard Launches Tracking Center for AI-Generated News, About NewsGuard ¶6 documented · field
    NewsGuard’s ratings and Nutrition Labels are licensed by browsers, news aggregators, education companies, and social media and search platforms to make NewsGuard’s information about news websites available to their users.
  • MMRS-10 MMRS MMRS meta-aggregator record: NewsGuard AI Tracking Center (https://www.machinemediation.org/aggregators/newsguard-ai-tra Lee Sharks (editor) · 2026-10-28 (corrected 2026-10-29) · census.json rows[slug == 'newsguard-ai-tracking-center'], operator documented
    NewsGuard
  • F59 Wikipedia — NewsGuard (the operator's article; the center has none), lead ¶1 documented · field
    NewsGuard is a rating system for news and information websites.
  • F62 Wikipedia — NewsGuard (the operator's article; the center has none), short description (raw wikitext) documented · field
    Browser plugin that rates the credibility of news and information websites
  • F61 Wikipedia — NewsGuard (the operator's article; the center has none), History ¶1 documented · field
    NewsGuard Technologies was founded in 2018 by Steven Brill and L. Gordon Crovitz, who serve as co-CEOs.
  • F60 Wikipedia — NewsGuard (the operator's article; the center has none), lead ¶1 documented · field
    NewsGuard Technologies Inc., the company behind the tool, also provides services such as misinformation tracking and brand safety for advertisers, search engines, social media platforms, cybersecurity firms, and government agencies.
22the encyclopedia: NewsGuard's AI auditsWikipedia — NewsGuard (the operator's article; the center has none)4 claims · B6
  • F63 Wikipedia — NewsGuard (the operator's article; the center has none), Ratings › Disinformation in AI ¶1 documented · field
    NewsGuard has audited the output of various AI models to identify disinformation.
  • F64 Wikipedia — NewsGuard (the operator's article; the center has none), Ratings › Disinformation in AI ¶1 documented · field
    In August 2025, they found that leading generative AI tools repeat false news claims 35% of the time on average.
  • F65 Wikipedia — NewsGuard (the operator's article; the center has none), Ratings › Disinformation in AI ¶1 documented · field
    NewsGuard also audited Sora 2 and found that it produced videos advancing fake claims in 80% of cases.
  • F66 Wikipedia — NewsGuard (the operator's article; the center has none), Ratings › Disinformation in AI ¶1 documented · field
    According to NewsGuard, Russian propaganda networks are attempting to "infect" large language models by spamming fake news, so that they will output more pro-Russia disinformation.
23the encyclopedia: the center absentWikipedia — NewsGuard (the operator's article; the center has none)1 claim · B6
  • F67 Wikipedia — NewsGuard (the operator's article; the center has none), Special:Search, "AI Tracking Center" (all articles), 2026-10-29 documented · field
    There were no results matching the query.
24reception: the composition layerMMRS3 claims · MMRS, capture-registry
  • CAP-1-08 capture-registry Capture Registry (EA-WG-CAPTURES-01), entry newsguard-ai-tracking-center-aio-20261029 (OBS-f7965ff6f906, AXN:0AB1.CAPTUR Lee Sharks (the registry) · 2026-10-29 · newsguard-ai-tracking-center-aio-20261029, reading interpretation
    The Overview gives what the center tracks, its headline figures, and the NewsGuard tools around it, all from NewsGuard's pages.
  • CAP-1-02 capture-registry Capture Registry (EA-WG-CAPTURES-01), entry newsguard-ai-tracking-center-aio-20261029 (OBS-f7965ff6f906, AXN:0AB1.CAPTUR Lee Sharks (the registry) · 2026-10-29 · newsguard-ai-tracking-center-aio-20261029, findings[0] documented
    Checked 2026-10-29 against the MMRS meta-aggregator record of 2026-10-28 and the entity's own pages, re-read the same day.
  • MMRS-20 MMRS MMRS meta-aggregator record: NewsGuard AI Tracking Center (https://www.machinemediation.org/aggregators/newsguard-ai-tra Lee Sharks (editor) · 2026-10-28 (corrected 2026-10-29) · census.json rows[slug == 'newsguard-ai-tracking-center'], relations.1.note documented
    the composition layer's account of the entity, seated in the Capture Registry
AIO's transcript, a record · newsguard ai tracking center · Google AI Overview (expanded) · 203 words · 5 cards
[Google AI Overview at the query, signed out and incognito (operator defaults of 2026-10-01 and 2026-10-14), 2026-10-29. The paste is the Overview expanded (the 'AI Mode Conversation' view, with the source cards that follow the answer); the 'You said' line carries the query twice, run together, and is given once here. Inline links are Google redirect URLs, kept as pasted. The closing disclaimer cut.]

[QUERENT] newsguard ai tracking center

[SYSTEM] The NewsGuard AI Tracking Center is an ongoing investigative project by [NewsGuard](https://www.google.com/goto?url=CAESeQHrOzAVT8iIpnHo2uf2pM1f5z1rMsuXB-Wotc4O5Y48oU4KG3a_4n1bL3bcUFw3R-yPq1qScI-bwDvavAa197I9O7PL4pzUwAUzRqSUtuNzFwenwYbWFzDmDuChSjz3AKUV9w5zuc_YcieGxTO3CQcVbuIVOA1etl4) that monitors and catalogs artificial intelligence-generated misinformation, unreliable AI news sites, and AI tool vulnerabilities. [[1](https://www.google.com/goto?url=CAESeQHrOzAVT8iIpnHo2uf2pM1f5z1rMsuXB-Wotc4O5Y48oU4KG3a_4n1bL3bcUFw3R-yPq1qScI-bwDvavAa197I9O7PL4pzUwAUzRqSUtuNzFwenwYbWFzDmDuChSjz3AKUV9w5zuc_YcieGxTO3CQcVbuIVOA1etl4), [2](https://www.google.com/goto?url=CAESlQEB6zswFWyV_yts3_cexmxYdqQbP9yLegE4hbWL45QKti25bv6FDhaxzso7WtRWC8q-nR8zIaqclXAm8FaujEVxJTJ3Gtr5uEfmzjs0HBER3vM_SLJ_yUSyQZDuTHMNY55MbryJ9egzIsH8AevJARet45HLWPZQtZiUMoULLxMYWxQY8fEtyQsIPrxSnI14MLhIhs-K2A)]
Key Findings & Metrics

* AI Content Farms: Identified 3,749+ unedited AI content farm sites operating across 16 languages that mimic human news layouts and monetize via programmatic advertising. [[1](https://www.google.com/goto?url=CAESeQHrOzAVT8iIpnHo2uf2pM1f5z1rMsuXB-Wotc4O5Y48oU4KG3a_4n1bL3bcUFw3R-yPq1qScI-bwDvavAa197I9O7PL4pzUwAUzRqSUtuNzFwenwYbWFzDmDuChSjz3AKUV9w5zuc_YcieGxTO3CQcVbuIVOA1etl4)]
* Chatbot & Tool Audits: Found that leading generative AI tools repeat known news false claims in 28% to over 33% of prompts, fail to recognize AI-generated video (such as Sora) in 78% to 95% of prompts, and occasionally propagate state-sponsored disinformation. [[1](https://www.google.com/goto?url=CAESeQHrOzAVT8iIpnHo2uf2pM1f5z1rMsuXB-Wotc4O5Y48oU4KG3a_4n1bL3bcUFw3R-yPq1qScI-bwDvavAa197I9O7PL4pzUwAUzRqSUtuNzFwenwYbWFzDmDuChSjz3AKUV9w5zuc_YcieGxTO3CQcVbuIVOA1etl4)]
* Publisher Blockades: Approximately 67% of top global news sites actively block AI crawlers and chatbots, pushing AI systems toward lower-quality data sources. [[1](https://www.google.com/goto?url=CAESeQHrOzAVT8iIpnHo2uf2pM1f5z1rMsuXB-Wotc4O5Y48oU4KG3a_4n1bL3bcUFw3R-yPq1qScI-bwDvavAa197I9O7PL4pzUwAUzRqSUtuNzFwenwYbWFzDmDuChSjz3AKUV9w5zuc_YcieGxTO3CQcVbuIVOA1etl4)]

Core Tools & Resources

* [AI False Claims Monitor](https://www.google.com/goto?url=CAESbgHrOzAVlyV-1Yuut50x8Vv0STJrlyA-8bV5vf95nS9Ub3QcWhVO1Hz2cJpYmKsDllnlcZN-iQvgfoEXyT3bQllKl_ZxZq4YDrcg7c99Y0uLDH3eLVh49aPSJlOKp5S0WpgM8f0ISAq31xZfWUDx): Launched to measure AI reliability using a journalistic red-teaming approach and a "False Claim Fingerprint" database. [[1](https://www.google.com/goto?url=CAESbgHrOzAVlyV-1Yuut50x8Vv0STJrlyA-8bV5vf95nS9Ub3QcWhVO1Hz2cJpYmKsDllnlcZN-iQvgfoEXyT3bQllKl_ZxZq4YDrcg7c99Y0uLDH3eLVh49aPSJlOKp5S0WpgM8f0ISAq31xZfWUDx)]
* False Claim Fingerprints: A continuously updated database tracking false narratives across text, images, audio, and video to help safeguard AI models and brands. [[1](https://www.google.com/goto?url=CAESeQHrOzAVSVRIVMkdKnFCADVmJLsXicDhnbAbZktUt3IP2hrMK4U-Jr8DoEshDZ9vHjb9YP8L-3oRCs87F7iWkdfpDZNEtcosvUsHcjhhduNLcS8-EQv5MLbEFPRY6RZhck5hgFWeJp-OPpCoO6oB9cYeEe831dwf_0I), [2](https://www.google.com/goto?url=CAESiAEB6zswFW9B5QMcQ3PJ6uXTdGCZYLXFlfqRdrpSJbBaeqMgjhFjGS09SNi73YSY_ggO1JLKdszjXc-SIQ2JQ1vKRGpoNoPQj07HoPZrwn2OOadYNDcT-23QxrdMqgyYEv4seubenGQ6CUUq1AI_yyzgIEC9ooXIIkFuzusEYt4IaqILte27gCHu)]
* Brand Misinformation Monitoring: Real-time tracking and early-warning alerts designed to help advertisers and enterprises avoid funding or amplifying AI-generated falsehoods. [[1](https://www.google.com/goto?url=CAESiAEB6zswFW9B5QMcQ3PJ6uXTdGCZYLXFlfqRdrpSJbBaeqMgjhFjGS09SNi73YSY_ggO1JLKdszjXc-SIQ2JQ1vKRGpoNoPQj07HoPZrwn2OOadYNDcT-23QxrdMqgyYEv4seubenGQ6CUUq1AI_yyzgIEC9ooXIIkFuzusEYt4IaqILte27gCHu)]

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NewsGuard AI Tracking Center

NewsGuard's AI Tracking Center catalogues AI content farm websites, "unreliable news sites run with little or no human oversight", and the MMRS record files it as a monitor, its role monitoring, its unit the AI content farm website, at its own address on newsguardtech.com (MMRS record); in its own words it "is intended to highlight the ways that generative AI has been deployed to turbocharge misinformation operations and unreliable news" (the center's page). NewsGuard launched it on 8 June 2023 as the "Unreliable AI-Generated News Tracking Center," "cataloging the ways that generative AI has been deployed to turbocharge misinformation operations and low-quality content farms" (NewsGuard's launch release), and it includes a selection of NewsGuard's reports, insights and debunks related to artificial intelligence (the center's page). The MMRS record gives the center's lifecycle as active and keeps it apart from its own observation, a reading of the center's page on 28 October 2026 for its criteria, count and series (MMRS record). The rollout of generative AI tools "has been a boon to content farms and misinformation purveyors alike" (the center's page); at the launch NewsGuard's co-CEO Steven Brill likened the new sites to "the misinformation-spreading Macedonian content farms from a few years ago", cheaper to produce and more prolific (the launch release); and compression studies reads content farms as a class of the semantic economy's compression: they "compress journalism into SEO-optimized paraphrase", and in each such compression "authorial context, experiential density, citational provenance, the labor of witness" are burned (#641).

A domain enters the catalogue when it meets "all four of the following criteria": clear evidence that a substantial portion of its content is produced by AI; strong evidence that the content is published "without significant human oversight", of which error messages or other language specific to chatbot responses are a sign; a presentation under which "an average reader could assume that its content is produced by human writers or journalists", by layout, generic or benign name or other news-like content; and no clear disclosure that the content is produced by AI (the center's page), the four restated in the MMRS record's article and its unit field (MMRS record). At the launch the unit was named the "Unreliable AI-Generated News" website (UAIN): "low-quality news sites that are mostly or entirely produced by artificial intelligence and that operate with little to no human oversight" (the launch release). What the selection leaves out is stated from two sides: sites that use AI tools "but also deploy effective human oversight" "will not be considered AI Content Farms" (the center's page), and, in the MMRS record's reading, "Disclosure takes a site out. A site that says its content is machine-made is outside the catalogue whatever it publishes" (MMRS record).

NewsGuard counted 49 such sites at its first count in May 2023 and 150 in 12 languages at the launch, a number that had "more than tripled in past month" (the launch release); by the page's last update, 23 June 2026, its team had identified 3,749 AI Content Farm news and information websites spanning 16 languages, from Arabic to Turkish (the center's page), which is the MMRS record's count, as of that date (MMRS record). The page carries the names of ten NewsGuard analysts, McKenzie Sadeghi first, and describes the sites as typically bearing generic names such as Times Business News and Business Post, churning out dozens of articles a day, and "often the originators of false claims including about top brands, public health, political leaders and celebrities" (the center's page). The catalogue itself is not on the page: from the launch the full list of domains has been offered on request to researchers, platforms, advertisers, government agencies and other institutions ("Request domain list", the launch release), and the page now offers it beside "our services for generative AI companies" (the center's page).

"In many cases", the center's page and the launch release say alike, the sites' revenue model is programmatic advertising, which delivers ads "without regard to the nature or quality of the website"; NewsGuard's co-CEO Gordon Crovitz said at the launch that this model "seems to be working", the ads appearing "through ad-tech firms such as Google" (the launch release). Two predictions ride on the model: unless brands take steps to exclude untrustworthy sites, their ads "will continue to appear on these types of sites, creating an economic incentive for their creation at scale" (the center's page), and generative AI "is expected" to let more players tap into or grow the estimated $2.6 billion a year that NewsGuard and Comscore found unintentionally directed toward misinformation news sites (the launch release).

Below the criteria the page lists "a selection of NewsGuard’s reports and research related to AI" and a selection of false narratives originating from AI tools that NewsGuard has debunked in its False Claim Fingerprints catalog, the first an AI-edited image of an Iranian missile (the center's page). Among the reports is the recurring audit of leading chatbots, which the MMRS record names as the center's series, the AI False Claim Monitor, and relates to it as a part (has_part) (MMRS record): its editions run from a monthly monitor in July 2024 to a quarterly one by January 2026, which found 11 tools repeating false claims "more than 28%" of the time, and one audit found the rate "nearly doubled", to "more than one third of the time" (the center's page; the series' page). The series' page says that since its launch in July 2024 the monitor "has set a new standard for measuring the trustworthiness of the AI industry in the domain of news", by a journalistic "red-teaming" of AI on 30 prompts per model drawn from 10 false claims a month in the Fingerprints database, its analysts evaluating the top models monthly "to identify vulnerabilities in AI systems", and its own tests finding that this red-teaming "reduces failures by two thirds or more" (the series' page). The page's other reports find that three chatbots could not tell Sora videos in 78-95 percent of prompts, that ten tools repeated false claims of the pro-Kremlin Pravda network 33 percent of the time, that DeepSeek's chatbot failed 83 percent of the time, and that AI chatbots "Are Blocked by 67% of Top News Sites": "Most high-quality news sites request to block AI chatbots", and the chatbots "may be forced" onto lower-quality sources (the center's page); the series' page finds false claims "increasingly generated by Russian, Chinese, and Iranian state-sponsored influence operations" (the series' page).

The MMRS record places the center on the supply side of machine-mediated reception, "the sites that answer surfaces may retrieve and cite", and its series on the composition side (MMRS record), and the blocking report reaches the same pairing from the other end: chatbots that "may be forced to rely on lower-quality and misinformation-prone sources" (the center's page).

The center is NewsGuard's, and NewsGuard sells beside it to AI companies: a Source Reliability Ratings datastream of human-labeled data on 35,000 news and information sources, for training and RAG and to "avoid citing unreliable sources in responses", and a False Claim Fingerprints datastream, "A continuously updated database of labeled data about false claims" across text, images, video and audio, offered as protection against false claims entering responses through training data or RAG (NewsGuard's AI page); bespoke red-teaming and a licence to the Fingerprints database (the series' page); and NewsGuard for AI, launched in February 2023 (the launch release), the offer grounded in the claim that without quality sourcing AI products err "40+% of the time" on news (NewsGuard's AI page). To brands it sells Brand Misinformation Monitoring, a real-time service "to identify and respond to emerging false narratives before they cause reputational harm", tracking false narratives about a brand across social platforms, GenAI outputs and websites, with early warning alerts and "actionable insights into how clients are represented—or misrepresented—by AI models" (the service's page). The Capture Registry holds the center to the catalogue: False Claim Fingerprints and the Brand Misinformation Monitoring Service "are NewsGuard's commercial products", the composition at the center's name files them under the center as "Core Tools & Resources", and so "the entity widens from a catalogue to a company's offer", while "The record's center holds the content-farm catalogue and the False Claim Monitor series" and "The record keeps the catalogue as the entity" (Capture Registry, 2026-10-29).

NewsGuard was launched in March 2018 by Steven Brill and Gordon Crovitz and provides credibility ratings and "Nutrition Labels" for news and information websites, licensed by browsers, news aggregators, education companies, and social media and search platforms (the launch release); the MMRS record gives NewsGuard as the center's operator, on the basis of the center's own page (MMRS record). Wikipedia's article on NewsGuard opens "NewsGuard is a rating system for news and information websites", files it in its short description as a "Browser plugin", dates the company's founding to 2018 by Brill and L. Gordon Crovitz, and says the company also provides misinformation tracking and brand safety (Wikipedia, NewsGuard). Its section on disinformation in AI reports that NewsGuard "has audited the output of various AI models to identify disinformation", that leading generative AI tools repeated false news claims 35% of the time on average in August 2025, that Sora 2 produced videos advancing fake claims in 80% of cases, and that, according to NewsGuard, Russian propaganda networks are attempting to "infect" large language models (Wikipedia, NewsGuard); it has no section on the center, and a search of English Wikipedia's articles for the phrase AI Tracking Center answers "There were no results matching the query." (Wikipedia, 2026-10-29).

At the center's name on Google's AI Overview on 29 October 2026 the Capture Registry reads a composition that "gives what the center tracks, its headline figures, and the NewsGuard tools around it, all from NewsGuard's pages", with "3,749 sites in 16 languages" the record's figure, checked that day against the MMRS record and the entity's own pages, and states that "The video-recognition failure rates and the 67% blocking figure are not verified here" (Capture Registry, 2026-10-29); the MMRS record links that composition as "the composition layer's account of the entity" (MMRS record).

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1.NewsGuard's AI Tracking Center catalogues AI content farm websites, "unreliable news sites run with little or no human oversight", and the MMRS record files it as a monitor, its role monitoring, its unit the AI content farm website, at its own address on newsguardtech.com (MMRS record); in its own words it "is intended to highlight the ways that generative AI has been deployed to turbocharge misinformation operations and unreliable news" (the center's page).7
  • MMRS-01 MMRS MMRS meta-aggregator record: NewsGuard AI Tracking Center (https://www.machinemediation.org/aggregators/newsguard-ai-tra Lee Sharks (editor) · 2026-10-28 (corrected 2026-10-29) · articles.py ARTICLES['newsguard-ai-tracking-center'], kernel s1 stipulation
    NewsGuard's AI Tracking Center catalogues AI content farm websites, unreliable news sites run with little or no human oversight: 3,749 in 16 languages as of 23 June 2026.
  • MMRS-11 MMRS MMRS meta-aggregator record: NewsGuard AI Tracking Center (https://www.machinemediation.org/aggregators/newsguard-ai-tra Lee Sharks (editor) · 2026-10-28 (corrected 2026-10-29) · census.json rows[slug == 'newsguard-ai-tracking-center'], kind stipulation
    monitor
  • MMRS-12 MMRS MMRS meta-aggregator record: NewsGuard AI Tracking Center (https://www.machinemediation.org/aggregators/newsguard-ai-tra Lee Sharks (editor) · 2026-10-28 (corrected 2026-10-29) · census.json rows[slug == 'newsguard-ai-tracking-center'], roles.0 stipulation
    monitoring
  • MMRS-13 MMRS MMRS meta-aggregator record: NewsGuard AI Tracking Center (https://www.machinemediation.org/aggregators/newsguard-ai-tra Lee Sharks (editor) · 2026-10-28 (corrected 2026-10-29) · census.json rows[slug == 'newsguard-ai-tracking-center'], unit stipulation
    AI content farm website (four criteria: substantial AI-produced content, no meaningful human oversight, a look that passes for human journalism, no disclosure)
  • MMRS-08 MMRS MMRS meta-aggregator record: NewsGuard AI Tracking Center (https://www.machinemediation.org/aggregators/newsguard-ai-tra Lee Sharks (editor) · 2026-10-28 (corrected 2026-10-29) · census.json rows[slug == 'newsguard-ai-tracking-center'], name documented
    NewsGuard AI Tracking Center
  • MMRS-09 MMRS MMRS meta-aggregator record: NewsGuard AI Tracking Center (https://www.machinemediation.org/aggregators/newsguard-ai-tra Lee Sharks (editor) · 2026-10-28 (corrected 2026-10-29) · census.json rows[slug == 'newsguard-ai-tracking-center'], url documented
    https://www.newsguardtech.com/special-reports/ai-tracking-center/
  • F1 NewsGuard — Tracking AI-enabled Misinformation: 3,749 AI Content Farm sites (and Counting), Plus the Top False Claims Generated by Artificial Intelligence Tools - NewsGuard, ¶2 (opening) documented · field
    This AI Tracking Center is intended to highlight the ways that generative AI has been deployed to turbocharge misinformation operations and unreliable news.
2.NewsGuard launched it on 8 June 2023 as the "Unreliable AI-Generated News Tracking Center," "cataloging the ways that generative AI has been deployed to turbocharge misinformation operations and low-quality content farms" (NewsGuard's launch release), and it includes a selection of NewsGuard's reports, insights and debunks related to artificial intelligence (the center's page).2
  • F42 NewsGuard — NewsGuard Launches Tracking Center for AI-Generated News, ¶1 (dateline) documented · field
    (June 8, 2023 — New York City) As part of its efforts to guard readers, brands, and democracies against unreliable news and information, NewsGuard has launched an ”Unreliable AI-Generated News Tracking Center,” cataloging the ways that generative AI has been deployed to turbocharge misinformation operations and low-quality content farms.
  • F2 NewsGuard — Tracking AI-enabled Misinformation: 3,749 AI Content Farm sites (and Counting), Plus the Top False Claims Generated by Artificial Intelligence Tools - NewsGuard, ¶2 documented · field
    The Center includes a selection of NewsGuard’s reports, insights, and debunks related to artificial intelligence.
3.The MMRS record gives the center's lifecycle as active and keeps it apart from its own observation, a reading of the center's page on 28 October 2026 for its criteria, count and series (MMRS record).3
  • MMRS-16 MMRS MMRS meta-aggregator record: NewsGuard AI Tracking Center (https://www.machinemediation.org/aggregators/newsguard-ai-tra Lee Sharks (editor) · 2026-10-28 (corrected 2026-10-29) · census.json rows[slug == 'newsguard-ai-tracking-center'], lifecycle.state documented
    active
  • MMRS-17 MMRS MMRS meta-aggregator record: NewsGuard AI Tracking Center (https://www.machinemediation.org/aggregators/newsguard-ai-tra Lee Sharks (editor) · 2026-10-28 (corrected 2026-10-29) · census.json rows[slug == 'newsguard-ai-tracking-center'], observed.on documented
    2026-10-28
  • MMRS-18 MMRS MMRS meta-aggregator record: NewsGuard AI Tracking Center (https://www.machinemediation.org/aggregators/newsguard-ai-tra Lee Sharks (editor) · 2026-10-28 (corrected 2026-10-29) · census.json rows[slug == 'newsguard-ai-tracking-center'], sources.newsguardtech.com/special-reports/ai-tracking-center.for documented
    criteria, count, series
4.The rollout of generative AI tools "has been a boon to content farms and misinformation purveyors alike" (the center's page); at the launch NewsGuard's co-CEO Steven Brill likened the new sites to "the misinformation-spreading Macedonian content farms from a few years ago", cheaper to produce and more prolific (the launch release); and compression studies reads content farms as a class of the semantic economy's compression: they "compress journalism into SEO-optimized paraphrase", and in each such compression "authorial context, experiential density, citational provenance, the labor of witness" are burned (#641).3
  • F3 NewsGuard — Tracking AI-enabled Misinformation: 3,749 AI Content Farm sites (and Counting), Plus the Top False Claims Generated by Artificial Intelligence Tools - NewsGuard, ¶1 documented · field
    From unreliable AI-generated news outlets operating with little to no human oversight, to fabricated images produced by AI image generators, the rollout of generative artificial intelligence tools has been a boon to content farms and misinformation purveyors alike.
  • F46 NewsGuard — NewsGuard Launches Tracking Center for AI-Generated News, ¶4 (Brill) documented · field
    Today’s AI-generated ‘news’ websites are akin to the misinformation-spreading Macedonian content farms from a few years ago, with the distinction that these new sites cost even less to produce and can become even more prolific with the enhancements of artificial intelligence.
  • O641-01 #641 Compression Studies: What Survives, What Burns, and Who Decides — The Founding Document of a Discipline (EA-CS-FOUND-01) Lee Sharks · 2026-04-08 · § 'The extraction crisis' (¶ beginning 'The extraction crisis.') interpretation
    The semantic economy — the system by which meaning is produced, circulated, extracted, and depleted — operates through compression at every level. … Content farms compress journalism into SEO-optimized paraphrase. … In each case, something is burned: authorial context, experiential density, citational provenance, the labor of witness.
5.A domain enters the catalogue when it meets "all four of the following criteria": clear evidence that a substantial portion of its content is produced by AI; strong evidence that the content is published "without significant human oversight", of which error messages or other language specific to chatbot responses are a sign; a presentation under which "an average reader could assume that its content is produced by human writers or journalists", by layout, generic or benign name or other news-like content; and no clear disclosure that the content is produced by AI (the center's page), the four restated in the MMRS record's article and its unit field (MMRS record).8
  • F10 NewsGuard — Tracking AI-enabled Misinformation: 3,749 AI Content Farm sites (and Counting), Plus the Top False Claims Generated by Artificial Intelligence Tools - NewsGuard, criteria, head documented · field
    The domains included on this tracker meet all four of the following criteria:
  • F11 NewsGuard — Tracking AI-enabled Misinformation: 3,749 AI Content Farm sites (and Counting), Plus the Top False Claims Generated by Artificial Intelligence Tools - NewsGuard, criterion 1 documented · field
    There is clear evidence that a substantial portion of the site’s content is produced by AI.
  • F12 NewsGuard — Tracking AI-enabled Misinformation: 3,749 AI Content Farm sites (and Counting), Plus the Top False Claims Generated by Artificial Intelligence Tools - NewsGuard, criterion 2 documented · field
    Equally important, there is strong evidence that the content is being published without significant human oversight.
  • F13 NewsGuard — Tracking AI-enabled Misinformation: 3,749 AI Content Farm sites (and Counting), Plus the Top False Claims Generated by Artificial Intelligence Tools - NewsGuard, criterion 2, example documented · field
    For example, numerous articles might contain error messages or other language specific to chatbot responses, indicating that the content was produced by AI tools without adequate editing.
  • F15 NewsGuard — Tracking AI-enabled Misinformation: 3,749 AI Content Farm sites (and Counting), Plus the Top False Claims Generated by Artificial Intelligence Tools - NewsGuard, criterion 3 documented · field
    The site is presented in a way that an average reader could assume that its content is produced by human writers or journalists, because the site has a layout, generic or benign name, or other content typical to news and information websites.
  • F16 NewsGuard — Tracking AI-enabled Misinformation: 3,749 AI Content Farm sites (and Counting), Plus the Top False Claims Generated by Artificial Intelligence Tools - NewsGuard, criterion 4 documented · field
    The site does not clearly disclose that its content is produced by AI.
  • MMRS-03 MMRS MMRS meta-aggregator record: NewsGuard AI Tracking Center (https://www.machinemediation.org/aggregators/newsguard-ai-tra Lee Sharks (editor) · 2026-10-28 (corrected 2026-10-29) · articles.py ARTICLES['newsguard-ai-tracking-center'], section 'What it is' stipulation
    A domain enters when it meets all four criteria: a substantial share of its content is AI-produced; the content is published without meaningful human oversight (chatbot error text is one sign); its layout or name could lead a reader to think human journalists wrote it; and it carries no clear disclosure.
  • MMRS-13 MMRS MMRS meta-aggregator record: NewsGuard AI Tracking Center (https://www.machinemediation.org/aggregators/newsguard-ai-tra Lee Sharks (editor) · 2026-10-28 (corrected 2026-10-29) · census.json rows[slug == 'newsguard-ai-tracking-center'], unit stipulation
    AI content farm website (four criteria: substantial AI-produced content, no meaningful human oversight, a look that passes for human journalism, no disclosure)
6.At the launch the unit was named the "Unreliable AI-Generated News" website (UAIN): "low-quality news sites that are mostly or entirely produced by artificial intelligence and that operate with little to no human oversight" (the launch release).2
  • F43 NewsGuard — NewsGuard Launches Tracking Center for AI-Generated News, ¶3 documented · field
    These are low-quality news sites that are mostly or entirely produced by artificial intelligence and that operate with little to no human oversight.
  • F41 NewsGuard — NewsGuard Launches Tracking Center for AI-Generated News, subtitle documented · field
    The tracker features 150 ‘Unreliable AI-Generated News’ websites as well as NewsGuard reports, insights, and debunks about false narratives and other misinformation relating to artificial intelligence; number of such sites has more than tripled in past month.
7.What the selection leaves out is stated from two sides: sites that use AI tools "but also deploy effective human oversight" "will not be considered AI Content Farms" (the center's page), and, in the MMRS record's reading, "Disclosure takes a site out. A site that says its content is machine-made is outside the catalogue whatever it publishes" (MMRS record).3
  • F14 NewsGuard — Tracking AI-enabled Misinformation: 3,749 AI Content Farm sites (and Counting), Plus the Top False Claims Generated by Artificial Intelligence Tools - NewsGuard, criterion 2, parenthesis documented · field
    (It is likely that now or in the future many news sites will use AI tools but also deploy effective human oversight; they will not be considered AI Content Farms.)
  • MMRS-04 MMRS MMRS meta-aggregator record: NewsGuard AI Tracking Center (https://www.machinemediation.org/aggregators/newsguard-ai-tra Lee Sharks (editor) · 2026-10-28 (corrected 2026-10-29) · articles.py ARTICLES['newsguard-ai-tracking-center'], section 'What its selection leaves out' interpretation
    Disclosure takes a site out.
  • MMRS-05 MMRS MMRS meta-aggregator record: NewsGuard AI Tracking Center (https://www.machinemediation.org/aggregators/newsguard-ai-tra Lee Sharks (editor) · 2026-10-28 (corrected 2026-10-29) · articles.py ARTICLES['newsguard-ai-tracking-center'], section 'What its selection leaves out' interpretation
    A site that says its content is machine-made is outside the catalogue whatever it publishes.
8.NewsGuard counted 49 such sites at its first count in May 2023 and 150 in 12 languages at the launch, a number that had "more than tripled in past month" (the launch release); by the page's last update, 23 June 2026, its team had identified 3,749 AI Content Farm news and information websites spanning 16 languages, from Arabic to Turkish (the center's page), which is the MMRS record's count, as of that date (MMRS record).8
  • F44 NewsGuard — NewsGuard Launches Tracking Center for AI-Generated News, ¶3 documented · field
    In May, when NewsGuard did its first count, the number was 49.
  • F45 NewsGuard — NewsGuard Launches Tracking Center for AI-Generated News, ¶6 documented · field
    As noted above, NewsGuard has now identified 150 UAINs in 12 languages: Arabic, Chinese, Czech, Dutch, English, French, Indonesian, Korean, Portuguese, Tagalog, Thai, and Turkish.
  • F41 NewsGuard — NewsGuard Launches Tracking Center for AI-Generated News, subtitle documented · field
    The tracker features 150 ‘Unreliable AI-Generated News’ websites as well as NewsGuard reports, insights, and debunks about false narratives and other misinformation relating to artificial intelligence; number of such sites has more than tripled in past month.
  • F4 NewsGuard — Tracking AI-enabled Misinformation: 3,749 AI Content Farm sites (and Counting), Plus the Top False Claims Generated by Artificial Intelligence Tools - NewsGuard, ¶3 documented · field
    To date, NewsGuard’s team has identified 3,749 AI Content Farm news and information websites spanning 16 languages: Arabic, Chinese, Czech, Dutch, English, French, German, Indonesian, Italian, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Tagalog, Thai, and Turkish.
  • F5 NewsGuard — Tracking AI-enabled Misinformation: 3,749 AI Content Farm sites (and Counting), Plus the Top False Claims Generated by Artificial Intelligence Tools - NewsGuard, byline documented · field
    Coverage by McKenzie Sadeghi, Dimitris Dimitriadis, Virginia Padovese, Giulia Pozzi, Sara Badilini, Chiara Vercellone, Natalie Huet, Zack Fishman, Leonie Pfaller, and Natalie Adams | Last Updated June 23, 2026
  • MMRS-14 MMRS MMRS meta-aggregator record: NewsGuard AI Tracking Center (https://www.machinemediation.org/aggregators/newsguard-ai-tra Lee Sharks (editor) · 2026-10-28 (corrected 2026-10-29) · census.json rows[slug == 'newsguard-ai-tracking-center'], count.value documented
    3,749 sites in 16 languages
  • MMRS-15 MMRS MMRS meta-aggregator record: NewsGuard AI Tracking Center (https://www.machinemediation.org/aggregators/newsguard-ai-tra Lee Sharks (editor) · 2026-10-28 (corrected 2026-10-29) · census.json rows[slug == 'newsguard-ai-tracking-center'], count.as_of documented
    2026-06-23
  • MMRS-01 MMRS MMRS meta-aggregator record: NewsGuard AI Tracking Center (https://www.machinemediation.org/aggregators/newsguard-ai-tra Lee Sharks (editor) · 2026-10-28 (corrected 2026-10-29) · articles.py ARTICLES['newsguard-ai-tracking-center'], kernel s1 stipulation
    NewsGuard's AI Tracking Center catalogues AI content farm websites, unreliable news sites run with little or no human oversight: 3,749 in 16 languages as of 23 June 2026.
9.The page carries the names of ten NewsGuard analysts, McKenzie Sadeghi first, and describes the sites as typically bearing generic names such as Times Business News and Business Post, churning out dozens of articles a day, and "often the originators of false claims including about top brands, public health, political leaders and celebrities" (the center's page).2
  • F5 NewsGuard — Tracking AI-enabled Misinformation: 3,749 AI Content Farm sites (and Counting), Plus the Top False Claims Generated by Artificial Intelligence Tools - NewsGuard, byline documented · field
    Coverage by McKenzie Sadeghi, Dimitris Dimitriadis, Virginia Padovese, Giulia Pozzi, Sara Badilini, Chiara Vercellone, Natalie Huet, Zack Fishman, Leonie Pfaller, and Natalie Adams | Last Updated June 23, 2026
  • F6 NewsGuard — Tracking AI-enabled Misinformation: 3,749 AI Content Farm sites (and Counting), Plus the Top False Claims Generated by Artificial Intelligence Tools - NewsGuard, ¶4 documented · field
    These websites – which typically feature generic names such as Times Business News and Business Post – also tend to churn out dozens of articles a day and are often the originators of false claims including about top brands, public health, political leaders and celebrities.
10.The catalogue itself is not on the page: from the launch the full list of domains has been offered on request to researchers, platforms, advertisers, government agencies and other institutions ("Request domain list", the launch release), and the page now offers it beside "our services for generative AI companies" (the center's page).2
  • F51 NewsGuard — NewsGuard Launches Tracking Center for AI-Generated News, ¶11 documented · field
    Researchers, platforms, advertisers, government agencies, or other institutions interested in accessing the full list of domains generated by artificial intelligence and operating with little to no human oversight can contact us here: Request domain list.
  • F9 NewsGuard — Tracking AI-enabled Misinformation: 3,749 AI Content Farm sites (and Counting), Plus the Top False Claims Generated by Artificial Intelligence Tools - NewsGuard, ¶5 documented · field
    Researchers, platforms, advertisers, government agencies, and other institutions interested in accessing the full list of domains or who want details about our services for generative AI companies can contact us here.
11."In many cases", the center's page and the launch release say alike, the sites' revenue model is programmatic advertising, which delivers ads "without regard to the nature or quality of the website"; NewsGuard's co-CEO Gordon Crovitz said at the launch that this model "seems to be working", the ads appearing "through ad-tech firms such as Google" (the launch release).4
  • F49 NewsGuard — NewsGuard Launches Tracking Center for AI-Generated News, ¶9 documented · field
    In many cases, the revenue model for these websites is programmatic advertising through which the ad-tech industry delivers ads without regard to the nature or quality of the website.
  • F7 NewsGuard — Tracking AI-enabled Misinformation: 3,749 AI Content Farm sites (and Counting), Plus the Top False Claims Generated by Artificial Intelligence Tools - NewsGuard, ¶4 documented · field
    In many cases, the revenue model for these websites is programmatic advertising under which the ad-tech industry delivers ads without regard to the nature or quality of the website.
  • F47 NewsGuard — NewsGuard Launches Tracking Center for AI-Generated News, ¶5 (Crovitz) documented · field
    Most of these sites were created with the business model of generating revenue from programmatic advertising, which seems to be working.
  • F48 NewsGuard — NewsGuard Launches Tracking Center for AI-Generated News, ¶5 (Crovitz) documented · field
    the opaque system that operates programmatic advertising means these ads appear through ad-tech firms such as Google
12.Two predictions ride on the model: unless brands take steps to exclude untrustworthy sites, their ads "will continue to appear on these types of sites, creating an economic incentive for their creation at scale" (the center's page), and generative AI "is expected" to let more players tap into or grow the estimated $2.6 billion a year that NewsGuard and Comscore found unintentionally directed toward misinformation news sites (the launch release).2
  • F8 NewsGuard — Tracking AI-enabled Misinformation: 3,749 AI Content Farm sites (and Counting), Plus the Top False Claims Generated by Artificial Intelligence Tools - NewsGuard, ¶4 documented · field
    Unless brands take steps to exclude untrustworthy sites, their ads will continue to appear on these types of sites, creating an economic incentive for their creation at scale.
  • F50 NewsGuard — NewsGuard Launches Tracking Center for AI-Generated News, ¶10 documented · field
    It is expected that generative AI will allow more players to tap into or even grow the estimated $2.6 billion of advertising revenue per year that NewsGuard and Comscore found to be unintentionally directed toward misinformation news sites.
13.Below the criteria the page lists "a selection of NewsGuard’s reports and research related to AI" and a selection of false narratives originating from AI tools that NewsGuard has debunked in its False Claim Fingerprints catalog, the first an AI-edited image of an Iranian missile (the center's page).3
  • F17 NewsGuard — Tracking AI-enabled Misinformation: 3,749 AI Content Farm sites (and Counting), Plus the Top False Claims Generated by Artificial Intelligence Tools - NewsGuard, reports, head documented · field
    Below is a selection of NewsGuard’s reports and research related to AI:
  • F26 NewsGuard — Tracking AI-enabled Misinformation: 3,749 AI Content Farm sites (and Counting), Plus the Top False Claims Generated by Artificial Intelligence Tools - NewsGuard, debunks, head documented · field
    Below is a selection of false narratives originating from artificial intelligence tools and that NewsGuard has identified and debunked in its False Claim Fingerprints catalog:
  • F27 NewsGuard — Tracking AI-enabled Misinformation: 3,749 AI Content Farm sites (and Counting), Plus the Top False Claims Generated by Artificial Intelligence Tools - NewsGuard, debunks, first item documented · field
    Debunk: Iranian Missile With Epstein Inscription Is an AI Fabrication
14.Among the reports is the recurring audit of leading chatbots, which the MMRS record names as the center's series, the AI False Claim Monitor, and relates to it as a part (has_part) (MMRS record): its editions run from a monthly monitor in July 2024 to a quarterly one by January 2026, which found 11 tools repeating false claims "more than 28%" of the time, and one audit found the rate "nearly doubled", to "more than one third of the time" (the center's page; the series' page).6
  • MMRS-02 MMRS MMRS meta-aggregator record: NewsGuard AI Tracking Center (https://www.machinemediation.org/aggregators/newsguard-ai-tra Lee Sharks (editor) · 2026-10-28 (corrected 2026-10-29) · articles.py ARTICLES['newsguard-ai-tracking-center'], kernel s2 stipulation
    It also hosts NewsGuard's recurring AI False Claim Monitor.
  • MMRS-19 MMRS MMRS meta-aggregator record: NewsGuard AI Tracking Center (https://www.machinemediation.org/aggregators/newsguard-ai-tra Lee Sharks (editor) · 2026-10-28 (corrected 2026-10-29) · census.json rows[slug == 'newsguard-ai-tracking-center'], relations.0 stipulation
    {"rel": "has_part", "target": "newsguard-ai-false-claim-monitor"}
  • F20 NewsGuard — Tracking AI-enabled Misinformation: 3,749 AI Content Farm sites (and Counting), Plus the Top False Claims Generated by Artificial Intelligence Tools - NewsGuard, reports, the series (last item) documented · field
    July 2024 — NewsGuard Monthly AI Misinformation Monitor of Leading AI Chatbots
  • F35 NewsGuard — AI False Claims Monitor - NewsGuard, editions list documented · field
    Quarterly AI False Claim Monitor — January 2026
  • F18 NewsGuard — Tracking AI-enabled Misinformation: 3,749 AI Content Farm sites (and Counting), Plus the Top False Claims Generated by Artificial Intelligence Tools - NewsGuard, reports, the series (first item) documented · field
    Quarterly audit of the 11 leading generative AI tools and their propensity — more than 28% — to repeat false claims on controversial topics in the news.
  • F19 NewsGuard — Tracking AI-enabled Misinformation: 3,749 AI Content Farm sites (and Counting), Plus the Top False Claims Generated by Artificial Intelligence Tools - NewsGuard, reports, the series documented · field
    NewsGuard’s audit of the 10 leading generative AI tools and their propensity to repeat false claims on topics in the news reveals the rate of publishing false information nearly doubled — now providing false claims to news prompts more than one third of the time.
15.The series' page says that since its launch in July 2024 the monitor "has set a new standard for measuring the trustworthiness of the AI industry in the domain of news", by a journalistic "red-teaming" of AI on 30 prompts per model drawn from 10 false claims a month in the Fingerprints database, its analysts evaluating the top models monthly "to identify vulnerabilities in AI systems", and its own tests finding that this red-teaming "reduces failures by two thirds or more" (the series' page).5
  • F28 NewsGuard — AI False Claims Monitor - NewsGuard, ¶2 documented · field
    Since its launch in July 2024, NewsGuard’s Monthly AI False Claims Monitor has set a new standard for measuring the trustworthiness of the AI industry in the domain of news.
  • F29 NewsGuard — AI False Claims Monitor - NewsGuard, Our Journalistic Red-Teaming Approach documented · field
    To address these issues, NewsGuard has pioneered a distinct approach to “red-teaming” AI — using a journalistic method grounded in rigorously verified data and human expertise.
  • F30 NewsGuard — AI False Claims Monitor - NewsGuard, What We’re Tracking documented · field
    Multiple user personas: 30 prompts per AI model, based on 10 significant false claims each month from NewsGuard’s False Claim Fingerprints database.
  • F31 NewsGuard — AI False Claims Monitor - NewsGuard, Our Journalistic Red-Teaming Approach documented · field
    Our analysts evaluate the top AI models monthly to identify vulnerabilities in AI systems that result in the spread of false information.
  • F32 NewsGuard — AI False Claims Monitor - NewsGuard, Our Journalistic Red-Teaming Approach documented · field
    In tests thus far, we’ve found that NewsGuard’s false claim red-teaming reduces failures by two thirds or more.
16.The page's other reports find that three chatbots could not tell Sora videos in 78-95 percent of prompts, that ten tools repeated false claims of the pro-Kremlin Pravda network 33 percent of the time, that DeepSeek's chatbot failed 83 percent of the time, and that AI chatbots "Are Blocked by 67% of Top News Sites": "Most high-quality news sites request to block AI chatbots", and the chatbots "may be forced" onto lower-quality sources (the center's page); the series' page finds false claims "increasingly generated by Russian, Chinese, and Iranian state-sponsored influence operations" (the series' page).6
  • F21 NewsGuard — Tracking AI-enabled Misinformation: 3,749 AI Content Farm sites (and Counting), Plus the Top False Claims Generated by Artificial Intelligence Tools - NewsGuard, reports: AI Fools Itself documented · field
    NewsGuard tested three leading AI chatbots and found that in 78-95 percent of the prompts, the tools could not tell when videos were created by OpenAI’s text-to-video tool Sora — including OpenAI’s own ChatGPT.
  • F22 NewsGuard — Tracking AI-enabled Misinformation: 3,749 AI Content Farm sites (and Counting), Plus the Top False Claims Generated by Artificial Intelligence Tools - NewsGuard, reports: the Pravda network documented · field
    An audit found that the 10 leading generative AI tools advanced Moscow’s disinformation goals by repeating false claims from the pro-Kremlin Pravda network 33 percent of the time.
  • F23 NewsGuard — Tracking AI-enabled Misinformation: 3,749 AI Content Farm sites (and Counting), Plus the Top False Claims Generated by Artificial Intelligence Tools - NewsGuard, reports: DeepSeek documented · field
    Chinese artificial intelligence firm DeepSeek’s new chatbot failed to provide accurate information about news and information topics 83 percent of the time, scoring tied for 10th out of 11 in comparison to its leading Western competitors.
  • F24 NewsGuard — Tracking AI-enabled Misinformation: 3,749 AI Content Farm sites (and Counting), Plus the Top False Claims Generated by Artificial Intelligence Tools - NewsGuard, reports: blocking, title documented · field
    AI Chatbots Are Blocked by 67% of Top News Sites, Relying Instead on Low-Quality Sources
  • F25 NewsGuard — Tracking AI-enabled Misinformation: 3,749 AI Content Farm sites (and Counting), Plus the Top False Claims Generated by Artificial Intelligence Tools - NewsGuard, reports: blocking, summary documented · field
    Most high-quality news sites request to block AI chatbots. As a result, the chatbots may be forced to rely on lower-quality and misinformation-prone sources.
  • F34 NewsGuard — AI False Claims Monitor - NewsGuard, Our Journalistic Red-Teaming Approach documented · field
    We have found that these claims are increasingly generated by Russian, Chinese, and Iranian state-sponsored influence operations aiming to sow division and confusion in Western democracies.
17.The MMRS record places the center on the supply side of machine-mediated reception, "the sites that answer surfaces may retrieve and cite", and its series on the composition side (MMRS record), and the blocking report reaches the same pairing from the other end: chatbots that "may be forced to rely on lower-quality and misinformation-prone sources" (the center's page).3
  • MMRS-06 MMRS MMRS meta-aggregator record: NewsGuard AI Tracking Center (https://www.machinemediation.org/aggregators/newsguard-ai-tra Lee Sharks (editor) · 2026-10-28 (corrected 2026-10-29) · articles.py ARTICLES['newsguard-ai-tracking-center'], section 'Place in the field' interpretation
    It records the supply side of machine-mediated reception: the sites that answer surfaces may retrieve and cite.
  • MMRS-07 MMRS MMRS meta-aggregator record: NewsGuard AI Tracking Center (https://www.machinemediation.org/aggregators/newsguard-ai-tra Lee Sharks (editor) · 2026-10-28 (corrected 2026-10-29) · articles.py ARTICLES['newsguard-ai-tracking-center'], section 'Place in the field' interpretation
    Its series, the False Claim Monitor, records the composition side.
  • F25 NewsGuard — Tracking AI-enabled Misinformation: 3,749 AI Content Farm sites (and Counting), Plus the Top False Claims Generated by Artificial Intelligence Tools - NewsGuard, reports: blocking, summary documented · field
    Most high-quality news sites request to block AI chatbots. As a result, the chatbots may be forced to rely on lower-quality and misinformation-prone sources.
18.The center is NewsGuard's, and NewsGuard sells beside it to AI companies: a Source Reliability Ratings datastream of human-labeled data on 35,000 news and information sources, for training and RAG and to "avoid citing unreliable sources in responses", and a False Claim Fingerprints datastream, "A continuously updated database of labeled data about false claims" across text, images, video and audio, offered as protection against false claims entering responses through training data or RAG (NewsGuard's AI page); bespoke red-teaming and a licence to the Fingerprints database (the series' page); and NewsGuard for AI, launched in February 2023 (the launch release), the offer grounded in the claim that without quality sourcing AI products err "40+% of the time" on news (NewsGuard's AI page).7
  • F37 NewsGuard — Artificial Intelligence - NewsGuard, Source Reliability Ratings documented · field
    Our continuously updated Source Reliability Ratings datastream provides human-labeled data assessing the accuracy and reliability of 35,000 news and information sources based on apolitical journalistic criteria.
  • F38 NewsGuard — Artificial Intelligence - NewsGuard, Source Reliability Ratings documented · field
    With this datastream, AI companies can ensure news-related outputs are based on high-quality data sources in model training and RAG processes—and avoid citing unreliable sources in responses.
  • F39 NewsGuard — Artificial Intelligence - NewsGuard, False Claim Fingerprints documented · field
    NewsGuard’s False Claim Fingerprints datastream protects AI products against false claims spreading online that can enter responses through low-quality training data or RAG processes searching the open web.
  • F40 NewsGuard — Artificial Intelligence - NewsGuard, False Claim Fingerprints documented · field
    A continuously updated database of labeled data about false claims, the Fingerprints contain rich detail about where each claim has spread and how it is articulated in text, images, video, and audio assets across platforms—enabling full protection.
  • F33 NewsGuard — AI False Claims Monitor - NewsGuard, Bespoke Red Teaming documented · field
    Using a methodology similar to these monthly audits, NewsGuard offers bespoke red-teaming services to AI companies, based on their unique needs and areas of highest concern. The False Claim Fingerprints database is also available for AI models to license.
  • F53 NewsGuard — NewsGuard Launches Tracking Center for AI-Generated News, About NewsGuard ¶2 documented · field
    In February 2023, the company launched NewsGuard for AI, which provides the leading tools to train generative AI models to avoid spreading misinformation.
  • F36 NewsGuard — Artificial Intelligence - NewsGuard, ¶1 documented · field
    Trustworthy AI requires reliable data. Without quality sourcing and rigorous guardrails, AI products repeat false claims or provide inaccurate information 40+% of the time, especially on topics in the news.
19.To brands it sells Brand Misinformation Monitoring, a real-time service "to identify and respond to emerging false narratives before they cause reputational harm", tracking false narratives about a brand across social platforms, GenAI outputs and websites, with early warning alerts and "actionable insights into how clients are represented—or misrepresented—by AI models" (the service's page).4
  • F55 NewsGuard — Brand Misinformation Monitoring Service - NewsGuard, ¶1 documented · field
    NewsGuard’s team of journalistically-trained analysts provides brands with a real-time monitoring service to identify and respond to emerging false narratives before they cause reputational harm.
  • F56 NewsGuard — Brand Misinformation Monitoring Service - NewsGuard, ¶1 documented · field
    NewsGuard’s Brand Misinformation Monitoring service includes tracking provably false narratives related to a brand across social platforms, GenAI outputs and websites.
  • F57 NewsGuard — Brand Misinformation Monitoring Service - NewsGuard, Early Warning Alerts documented · field
    Early Warning Alerts: Real-time notifications of emerging false or harmful narratives including a narrative description, preliminary assessment, and data about the key drivers of the narrative’s spread.
  • F58 NewsGuard — Brand Misinformation Monitoring Service - NewsGuard, AI documented · field
    AI: Providing actionable insights into how clients are represented—or misrepresented—by AI models through services that identify and address hallucinations, false claims, AI-generated errors, and coordinated influence campaigns.
20.The Capture Registry holds the center to the catalogue: False Claim Fingerprints and the Brand Misinformation Monitoring Service "are NewsGuard's commercial products", the composition at the center's name files them under the center as "Core Tools & Resources", and so "the entity widens from a catalogue to a company's offer", while "The record's center holds the content-farm catalogue and the False Claim Monitor series" and "The record keeps the catalogue as the entity" (Capture Registry, 2026-10-29).4
  • CAP-1-03 capture-registry Capture Registry (EA-WG-CAPTURES-01), entry newsguard-ai-tracking-center-aio-20261029 (OBS-f7965ff6f906, AXN:0AB1.CAPTUR Lee Sharks (the registry) · 2026-10-29 · newsguard-ai-tracking-center-aio-20261029, findings[1] documented
    False Claim Fingerprints ('to help safeguard AI models and brands') and the Brand Misinformation Monitoring Service are NewsGuard's commercial products; the composition files them under the center as 'Core Tools & Resources'.
  • CAP-1-06 capture-registry Capture Registry (EA-WG-CAPTURES-01), entry newsguard-ai-tracking-center-aio-20261029 (OBS-f7965ff6f906, AXN:0AB1.CAPTUR Lee Sharks (the registry) · 2026-10-29 · newsguard-ai-tracking-center-aio-20261029, analysis s1 interpretation
    The center is composed from its maker's pages, and the maker's products come with it: the entity widens from a catalogue to a company's offer.
  • CAP-1-04 capture-registry Capture Registry (EA-WG-CAPTURES-01), entry newsguard-ai-tracking-center-aio-20261029 (OBS-f7965ff6f906, AXN:0AB1.CAPTUR Lee Sharks (the registry) · 2026-10-29 · newsguard-ai-tracking-center-aio-20261029, findings[1] stipulation
    The record's center holds the content-farm catalogue and the False Claim Monitor series.
  • CAP-1-07 capture-registry Capture Registry (EA-WG-CAPTURES-01), entry newsguard-ai-tracking-center-aio-20261029 (OBS-f7965ff6f906, AXN:0AB1.CAPTUR Lee Sharks (the registry) · 2026-10-29 · newsguard-ai-tracking-center-aio-20261029, analysis s2 interpretation
    The record keeps the catalogue as the entity.
21.NewsGuard was launched in March 2018 by Steven Brill and Gordon Crovitz and provides credibility ratings and "Nutrition Labels" for news and information websites, licensed by browsers, news aggregators, education companies, and social media and search platforms (the launch release); the MMRS record gives NewsGuard as the center's operator, on the basis of the center's own page (MMRS record).3
  • F52 NewsGuard — NewsGuard Launches Tracking Center for AI-Generated News, About NewsGuard ¶1 documented · field
    Launched in March 2018 by media entrepreneur and award-winning journalist Steven Brill and former Wall Street Journal publisher Gordon Crovitz, NewsGuard provides credibility ratings and detailed “Nutrition Labels” for thousands of news and information websites.
  • F54 NewsGuard — NewsGuard Launches Tracking Center for AI-Generated News, About NewsGuard ¶6 documented · field
    NewsGuard’s ratings and Nutrition Labels are licensed by browsers, news aggregators, education companies, and social media and search platforms to make NewsGuard’s information about news websites available to their users.
  • MMRS-10 MMRS MMRS meta-aggregator record: NewsGuard AI Tracking Center (https://www.machinemediation.org/aggregators/newsguard-ai-tra Lee Sharks (editor) · 2026-10-28 (corrected 2026-10-29) · census.json rows[slug == 'newsguard-ai-tracking-center'], operator documented
    NewsGuard
22.Wikipedia's article on NewsGuard opens "NewsGuard is a rating system for news and information websites", files it in its short description as a "Browser plugin", dates the company's founding to 2018 by Brill and L. Gordon Crovitz, and says the company also provides misinformation tracking and brand safety (Wikipedia, NewsGuard).4
  • F59 Wikipedia — NewsGuard (the operator's article; the center has none), lead ¶1 documented · field
    NewsGuard is a rating system for news and information websites.
  • F62 Wikipedia — NewsGuard (the operator's article; the center has none), short description (raw wikitext) documented · field
    Browser plugin that rates the credibility of news and information websites
  • F61 Wikipedia — NewsGuard (the operator's article; the center has none), History ¶1 documented · field
    NewsGuard Technologies was founded in 2018 by Steven Brill and L. Gordon Crovitz, who serve as co-CEOs.
  • F60 Wikipedia — NewsGuard (the operator's article; the center has none), lead ¶1 documented · field
    NewsGuard Technologies Inc., the company behind the tool, also provides services such as misinformation tracking and brand safety for advertisers, search engines, social media platforms, cybersecurity firms, and government agencies.
23.Its section on disinformation in AI reports that NewsGuard "has audited the output of various AI models to identify disinformation", that leading generative AI tools repeated false news claims 35% of the time on average in August 2025, that Sora 2 produced videos advancing fake claims in 80% of cases, and that, according to NewsGuard, Russian propaganda networks are attempting to "infect" large language models (Wikipedia, NewsGuard); it has no section on the center, and a search of English Wikipedia's articles for the phrase AI Tracking Center answers "There were no results matching the query." (Wikipedia, 2026-10-29).5
  • F63 Wikipedia — NewsGuard (the operator's article; the center has none), Ratings › Disinformation in AI ¶1 documented · field
    NewsGuard has audited the output of various AI models to identify disinformation.
  • F64 Wikipedia — NewsGuard (the operator's article; the center has none), Ratings › Disinformation in AI ¶1 documented · field
    In August 2025, they found that leading generative AI tools repeat false news claims 35% of the time on average.
  • F65 Wikipedia — NewsGuard (the operator's article; the center has none), Ratings › Disinformation in AI ¶1 documented · field
    NewsGuard also audited Sora 2 and found that it produced videos advancing fake claims in 80% of cases.
  • F66 Wikipedia — NewsGuard (the operator's article; the center has none), Ratings › Disinformation in AI ¶1 documented · field
    According to NewsGuard, Russian propaganda networks are attempting to "infect" large language models by spamming fake news, so that they will output more pro-Russia disinformation.
  • F67 Wikipedia — NewsGuard (the operator's article; the center has none), Special:Search, "AI Tracking Center" (all articles), 2026-10-29 documented · field
    There were no results matching the query.
24.At the center's name on Google's AI Overview on 29 October 2026 the Capture Registry reads a composition that "gives what the center tracks, its headline figures, and the NewsGuard tools around it, all from NewsGuard's pages", with "3,749 sites in 16 languages" the record's figure, checked that day against the MMRS record and the entity's own pages, and states that "The video-recognition failure rates and the 67% blocking figure are not verified here" (Capture Registry, 2026-10-29); the MMRS record links that composition as "the composition layer's account of the entity" (MMRS record).5
  • CAP-1-08 capture-registry Capture Registry (EA-WG-CAPTURES-01), entry newsguard-ai-tracking-center-aio-20261029 (OBS-f7965ff6f906, AXN:0AB1.CAPTUR Lee Sharks (the registry) · 2026-10-29 · newsguard-ai-tracking-center-aio-20261029, reading interpretation
    The Overview gives what the center tracks, its headline figures, and the NewsGuard tools around it, all from NewsGuard's pages.
  • CAP-1-01 capture-registry Capture Registry (EA-WG-CAPTURES-01), entry newsguard-ai-tracking-center-aio-20261029 (OBS-f7965ff6f906, AXN:0AB1.CAPTUR Lee Sharks (the registry) · 2026-10-29 · newsguard-ai-tracking-center-aio-20261029, findings[0] documented
    3,749 sites in 16 languages is the record's figure (23 June 2026).
  • CAP-1-02 capture-registry Capture Registry (EA-WG-CAPTURES-01), entry newsguard-ai-tracking-center-aio-20261029 (OBS-f7965ff6f906, AXN:0AB1.CAPTUR Lee Sharks (the registry) · 2026-10-29 · newsguard-ai-tracking-center-aio-20261029, findings[0] documented
    Checked 2026-10-29 against the MMRS meta-aggregator record of 2026-10-28 and the entity's own pages, re-read the same day.
  • CAP-1-05 capture-registry Capture Registry (EA-WG-CAPTURES-01), entry newsguard-ai-tracking-center-aio-20261029 (OBS-f7965ff6f906, AXN:0AB1.CAPTUR Lee Sharks (the registry) · 2026-10-29 · newsguard-ai-tracking-center-aio-20261029, findings[2] self-description
    The video-recognition failure rates and the 67% blocking figure are not verified here.
  • MMRS-20 MMRS MMRS meta-aggregator record: NewsGuard AI Tracking Center (https://www.machinemediation.org/aggregators/newsguard-ai-tra Lee Sharks (editor) · 2026-10-28 (corrected 2026-10-29) · census.json rows[slug == 'newsguard-ai-tracking-center'], relations.1.note documented
    the composition layer's account of the entity, seated in the Capture Registry

the compression: AIO's interaction grammar (lede, headed clusters, bolded labels, card rail), composed from the v0.9 plan in one claim space; it faces on the card, with AIO's transcript a record within it (§4.8, §5.8). Composed under v0.9, equal case (ρ = extends): KO_B sentences surviving 0 of 10; every field claim carried. composed 2026-10-29 from the v0.9 knowledge object; not frozen

Compression · The field's ontology — L_F(B)newsguard ai tracking center

NewsGuard AI Tracking Center is a NewsGuard special report launched on 8 June 2023 as the "Unreliable AI-Generated News Tracking Center", highlighting how generative AI is deployed "to turbocharge misinformation operations and unreliable news" and counting AI content farm sites: 3,749 in 16 languages by 23 June 2026 (NewsGuard).

📇 AI content farms

  • Criteria: AI content, no significant human oversight, passes for journalism, no disclosure; effective oversight takes a site out (NewsGuard).1↘
    A domain enters when it meets four criteria, a substantial portion of AI-produced content, publication without significant human oversight (chatbot error messages are a sign), a presentation an average reader could take for human journalism, and no clear disclosure, and sites that use AI with effective human oversight are not AI Content Farms (the center's page); in 2023 the unit was the "Unreliable AI-Generated News" site (the launch release).§3
  • Money: programmatic ads, "in many cases" (NewsGuard).1↘
    In many cases the sites live on programmatic advertising, which places ads "through ad-tech firms such as Google" (Crovitz, the launch release); unless brands exclude them their ads create "an economic incentive for their creation at scale" (the center's page), and generative AI is expected to grow the $2.6 billion a year directed to misinformation sites (the launch release).§5

📊 Reports

  • Chatbot audits: false claims more than 28% of the time; Sora videos missed in 78-95 percent of prompts (NewsGuard).2↘
    The page lists NewsGuard's AI reports, among them the monthly and then quarterly AI False Claims Monitor, a journalistic red-teaming of the leading chatbots on false claims from the Fingerprints database that found them repeating false claims more than 28% and then more than one third of the time, and debunks from the False Claim Fingerprints catalog (the center's page; the series' page).§7 Other reports find Sora videos unrecognized in 78-95 percent of prompts, Pravda network claims repeated 33 percent of the time, DeepSeek failing 83 percent of the time, and 67% of top news sites blocking AI chatbots, which may then rely on lower-quality sources (the center's page), the claims increasingly from state influence operations (the series' page).§8

🏷️ NewsGuard

  • Products: ratings and Fingerprints for AI companies; brand monitoring (NewsGuard).1↘
    NewsGuard sells AI companies a Source Reliability Ratings datastream on 35,000 sources, a False Claim Fingerprints datastream and bespoke red-teaming, the offer resting on AI products erring 40+% of the time on news (NewsGuard's AI page; the series' page; the launch release), and sells brands a Brand Misinformation Monitoring service that tracks false narratives across social platforms, GenAI outputs and websites (the service's page).§9
  • Encyclopedia: "a rating system for news and information websites"; no article on the center (Wikipedia).1↘
    NewsGuard, launched in 2018 by Steven Brill and Gordon Crovitz, rates news websites and licenses its ratings (the launch release); Wikipedia calls it "a rating system for news and information websites" and reports its AI audits, 35% false claims on average in August 2025 and Sora 2 at 80%, and has no article or section on the center (Wikipedia).§10
1what it is: generative AI in misinformation and unreliable newsNewsGuard — NewsGuard Launches Tracking Center for AI-Generated News2 claims · B1, B4
  • F42 NewsGuard — NewsGuard Launches Tracking Center for AI-Generated News, ¶1 (dateline) documented · field
    (June 8, 2023 — New York City) As part of its efforts to guard readers, brands, and democracies against unreliable news and information, NewsGuard has launched an ”Unreliable AI-Generated News Tracking Center,” cataloging the ways that generative AI has been deployed to turbocharge misinformation operations and low-quality content farms.
  • F1 NewsGuard — Tracking AI-enabled Misinformation: 3,749 AI Content Farm sites (and Counting), Plus the Top False Claims Generated by Artificial Intelligence Tools - NewsGuard, ¶2 (opening) documented · field
    This AI Tracking Center is intended to highlight the ways that generative AI has been deployed to turbocharge misinformation operations and unreliable news.
2what it holds: a selection of NewsGuard's AI reports, insights and debunksNewsGuard — Tracking AI-enabled Misinformation: 3,749 AI Content Farm sites (and Counting), Plus the Top False Claims Generated by Artificial Intelligence Tools - NewsGuard4 claims · B1
  • F2 NewsGuard — Tracking AI-enabled Misinformation: 3,749 AI Content Farm sites (and Counting), Plus the Top False Claims Generated by Artificial Intelligence Tools - NewsGuard, ¶2 documented · field
    The Center includes a selection of NewsGuard’s reports, insights, and debunks related to artificial intelligence.
  • F17 NewsGuard — Tracking AI-enabled Misinformation: 3,749 AI Content Farm sites (and Counting), Plus the Top False Claims Generated by Artificial Intelligence Tools - NewsGuard, reports, head documented · field
    Below is a selection of NewsGuard’s reports and research related to AI:
  • F26 NewsGuard — Tracking AI-enabled Misinformation: 3,749 AI Content Farm sites (and Counting), Plus the Top False Claims Generated by Artificial Intelligence Tools - NewsGuard, debunks, head documented · field
    Below is a selection of false narratives originating from artificial intelligence tools and that NewsGuard has identified and debunked in its False Claim Fingerprints catalog:
  • F27 NewsGuard — Tracking AI-enabled Misinformation: 3,749 AI Content Farm sites (and Counting), Plus the Top False Claims Generated by Artificial Intelligence Tools - NewsGuard, debunks, first item documented · field
    Debunk: Iranian Missile With Epstein Inscription Is an AI Fabrication
3the occasion: generative AI and content farmsNewsGuard — NewsGuard Launches Tracking Center for AI-Generated News2 claims · B1, B4
  • F3 NewsGuard — Tracking AI-enabled Misinformation: 3,749 AI Content Farm sites (and Counting), Plus the Top False Claims Generated by Artificial Intelligence Tools - NewsGuard, ¶1 documented · field
    From unreliable AI-generated news outlets operating with little to no human oversight, to fabricated images produced by AI image generators, the rollout of generative artificial intelligence tools has been a boon to content farms and misinformation purveyors alike.
  • F46 NewsGuard — NewsGuard Launches Tracking Center for AI-Generated News, ¶4 (Brill) documented · field
    Today’s AI-generated ‘news’ websites are akin to the misinformation-spreading Macedonian content farms from a few years ago, with the distinction that these new sites cost even less to produce and can become even more prolific with the enhancements of artificial intelligence.
4the unit: from 'Unreliable AI-Generated News' sites to AI content farms, by four criteriaNewsGuard — NewsGuard Launches Tracking Center for AI-Generated News8 claims · B1, B4
  • F10 NewsGuard — Tracking AI-enabled Misinformation: 3,749 AI Content Farm sites (and Counting), Plus the Top False Claims Generated by Artificial Intelligence Tools - NewsGuard, criteria, head documented · field
    The domains included on this tracker meet all four of the following criteria:
  • F11 NewsGuard — Tracking AI-enabled Misinformation: 3,749 AI Content Farm sites (and Counting), Plus the Top False Claims Generated by Artificial Intelligence Tools - NewsGuard, criterion 1 documented · field
    There is clear evidence that a substantial portion of the site’s content is produced by AI.
  • F12 NewsGuard — Tracking AI-enabled Misinformation: 3,749 AI Content Farm sites (and Counting), Plus the Top False Claims Generated by Artificial Intelligence Tools - NewsGuard, criterion 2 documented · field
    Equally important, there is strong evidence that the content is being published without significant human oversight.
  • F13 NewsGuard — Tracking AI-enabled Misinformation: 3,749 AI Content Farm sites (and Counting), Plus the Top False Claims Generated by Artificial Intelligence Tools - NewsGuard, criterion 2, example documented · field
    For example, numerous articles might contain error messages or other language specific to chatbot responses, indicating that the content was produced by AI tools without adequate editing.
  • F15 NewsGuard — Tracking AI-enabled Misinformation: 3,749 AI Content Farm sites (and Counting), Plus the Top False Claims Generated by Artificial Intelligence Tools - NewsGuard, criterion 3 documented · field
    The site is presented in a way that an average reader could assume that its content is produced by human writers or journalists, because the site has a layout, generic or benign name, or other content typical to news and information websites.
  • F16 NewsGuard — Tracking AI-enabled Misinformation: 3,749 AI Content Farm sites (and Counting), Plus the Top False Claims Generated by Artificial Intelligence Tools - NewsGuard, criterion 4 documented · field
    The site does not clearly disclose that its content is produced by AI.
  • F14 NewsGuard — Tracking AI-enabled Misinformation: 3,749 AI Content Farm sites (and Counting), Plus the Top False Claims Generated by Artificial Intelligence Tools - NewsGuard, criterion 2, parenthesis documented · field
    (It is likely that now or in the future many news sites will use AI tools but also deploy effective human oversight; they will not be considered AI Content Farms.)
  • F43 NewsGuard — NewsGuard Launches Tracking Center for AI-Generated News, ¶3 documented · field
    These are low-quality news sites that are mostly or entirely produced by artificial intelligence and that operate with little to no human oversight.
5the countNewsGuard — NewsGuard Launches Tracking Center for AI-Generated News4 claims · B1, B4
  • F41 NewsGuard — NewsGuard Launches Tracking Center for AI-Generated News, subtitle documented · field
    The tracker features 150 ‘Unreliable AI-Generated News’ websites as well as NewsGuard reports, insights, and debunks about false narratives and other misinformation relating to artificial intelligence; number of such sites has more than tripled in past month.
  • F44 NewsGuard — NewsGuard Launches Tracking Center for AI-Generated News, ¶3 documented · field
    In May, when NewsGuard did its first count, the number was 49.
  • F45 NewsGuard — NewsGuard Launches Tracking Center for AI-Generated News, ¶6 documented · field
    As noted above, NewsGuard has now identified 150 UAINs in 12 languages: Arabic, Chinese, Czech, Dutch, English, French, Indonesian, Korean, Portuguese, Tagalog, Thai, and Turkish.
  • F4 NewsGuard — Tracking AI-enabled Misinformation: 3,749 AI Content Farm sites (and Counting), Plus the Top False Claims Generated by Artificial Intelligence Tools - NewsGuard, ¶3 documented · field
    To date, NewsGuard’s team has identified 3,749 AI Content Farm news and information websites spanning 16 languages: Arabic, Chinese, Czech, Dutch, English, French, German, Indonesian, Italian, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Tagalog, Thai, and Turkish.
6who compiles itNewsGuard — Tracking AI-enabled Misinformation: 3,749 AI Content Farm sites (and Counting), Plus the Top False Claims Generated by Artificial Intelligence Tools - NewsGuard1 claim · B1
  • F5 NewsGuard — Tracking AI-enabled Misinformation: 3,749 AI Content Farm sites (and Counting), Plus the Top False Claims Generated by Artificial Intelligence Tools - NewsGuard, byline documented · field
    Coverage by McKenzie Sadeghi, Dimitris Dimitriadis, Virginia Padovese, Giulia Pozzi, Sara Badilini, Chiara Vercellone, Natalie Huet, Zack Fishman, Leonie Pfaller, and Natalie Adams | Last Updated June 23, 2026
7what the sites are likeNewsGuard — Tracking AI-enabled Misinformation: 3,749 AI Content Farm sites (and Counting), Plus the Top False Claims Generated by Artificial Intelligence Tools - NewsGuard1 claim · B1
  • F6 NewsGuard — Tracking AI-enabled Misinformation: 3,749 AI Content Farm sites (and Counting), Plus the Top False Claims Generated by Artificial Intelligence Tools - NewsGuard, ¶4 documented · field
    These websites – which typically feature generic names such as Times Business News and Business Post – also tend to churn out dozens of articles a day and are often the originators of false claims including about top brands, public health, political leaders and celebrities.
8the economics: programmatic advertisingNewsGuard — NewsGuard Launches Tracking Center for AI-Generated News6 claims · B1, B4
  • F7 NewsGuard — Tracking AI-enabled Misinformation: 3,749 AI Content Farm sites (and Counting), Plus the Top False Claims Generated by Artificial Intelligence Tools - NewsGuard, ¶4 documented · field
    In many cases, the revenue model for these websites is programmatic advertising under which the ad-tech industry delivers ads without regard to the nature or quality of the website.
  • F49 NewsGuard — NewsGuard Launches Tracking Center for AI-Generated News, ¶9 documented · field
    In many cases, the revenue model for these websites is programmatic advertising through which the ad-tech industry delivers ads without regard to the nature or quality of the website.
  • F47 NewsGuard — NewsGuard Launches Tracking Center for AI-Generated News, ¶5 (Crovitz) documented · field
    Most of these sites were created with the business model of generating revenue from programmatic advertising, which seems to be working.
  • F48 NewsGuard — NewsGuard Launches Tracking Center for AI-Generated News, ¶5 (Crovitz) documented · field
    the opaque system that operates programmatic advertising means these ads appear through ad-tech firms such as Google
  • F8 NewsGuard — Tracking AI-enabled Misinformation: 3,749 AI Content Farm sites (and Counting), Plus the Top False Claims Generated by Artificial Intelligence Tools - NewsGuard, ¶4 documented · field
    Unless brands take steps to exclude untrustworthy sites, their ads will continue to appear on these types of sites, creating an economic incentive for their creation at scale.
  • F50 NewsGuard — NewsGuard Launches Tracking Center for AI-Generated News, ¶10 documented · field
    It is expected that generative AI will allow more players to tap into or even grow the estimated $2.6 billion of advertising revenue per year that NewsGuard and Comscore found to be unintentionally directed toward misinformation news sites.
9access: the full list on requestNewsGuard — NewsGuard Launches Tracking Center for AI-Generated News2 claims · B1, B4
  • F9 NewsGuard — Tracking AI-enabled Misinformation: 3,749 AI Content Farm sites (and Counting), Plus the Top False Claims Generated by Artificial Intelligence Tools - NewsGuard, ¶5 documented · field
    Researchers, platforms, advertisers, government agencies, and other institutions interested in accessing the full list of domains or who want details about our services for generative AI companies can contact us here.
  • F51 NewsGuard — NewsGuard Launches Tracking Center for AI-Generated News, ¶11 documented · field
    Researchers, platforms, advertisers, government agencies, or other institutions interested in accessing the full list of domains generated by artificial intelligence and operating with little to no human oversight can contact us here: Request domain list.
10the series: the AI False Claim(s) MonitorNewsGuard — Tracking AI-enabled Misinformation: 3,749 AI Content Farm sites (and Counting), Plus the Top False Claims Generated by Artificial Intelligence Tools - NewsGuard9 claims · B1, B2
  • F18 NewsGuard — Tracking AI-enabled Misinformation: 3,749 AI Content Farm sites (and Counting), Plus the Top False Claims Generated by Artificial Intelligence Tools - NewsGuard, reports, the series (first item) documented · field
    Quarterly audit of the 11 leading generative AI tools and their propensity — more than 28% — to repeat false claims on controversial topics in the news.
  • F19 NewsGuard — Tracking AI-enabled Misinformation: 3,749 AI Content Farm sites (and Counting), Plus the Top False Claims Generated by Artificial Intelligence Tools - NewsGuard, reports, the series documented · field
    NewsGuard’s audit of the 10 leading generative AI tools and their propensity to repeat false claims on topics in the news reveals the rate of publishing false information nearly doubled — now providing false claims to news prompts more than one third of the time.
  • F20 NewsGuard — Tracking AI-enabled Misinformation: 3,749 AI Content Farm sites (and Counting), Plus the Top False Claims Generated by Artificial Intelligence Tools - NewsGuard, reports, the series (last item) documented · field
    July 2024 — NewsGuard Monthly AI Misinformation Monitor of Leading AI Chatbots
  • F35 NewsGuard — AI False Claims Monitor - NewsGuard, editions list documented · field
    Quarterly AI False Claim Monitor — January 2026
  • F28 NewsGuard — AI False Claims Monitor - NewsGuard, ¶2 documented · field
    Since its launch in July 2024, NewsGuard’s Monthly AI False Claims Monitor has set a new standard for measuring the trustworthiness of the AI industry in the domain of news.
  • F29 NewsGuard — AI False Claims Monitor - NewsGuard, Our Journalistic Red-Teaming Approach documented · field
    To address these issues, NewsGuard has pioneered a distinct approach to “red-teaming” AI — using a journalistic method grounded in rigorously verified data and human expertise.
  • F30 NewsGuard — AI False Claims Monitor - NewsGuard, What We’re Tracking documented · field
    Multiple user personas: 30 prompts per AI model, based on 10 significant false claims each month from NewsGuard’s False Claim Fingerprints database.
  • F31 NewsGuard — AI False Claims Monitor - NewsGuard, Our Journalistic Red-Teaming Approach documented · field
    Our analysts evaluate the top AI models monthly to identify vulnerabilities in AI systems that result in the spread of false information.
  • F32 NewsGuard — AI False Claims Monitor - NewsGuard, Our Journalistic Red-Teaming Approach documented · field
    In tests thus far, we’ve found that NewsGuard’s false claim red-teaming reduces failures by two thirds or more.
11reports held: chatbots, AI video, state propaganda, publishers blocking chatbotsNewsGuard — Tracking AI-enabled Misinformation: 3,749 AI Content Farm sites (and Counting), Plus the Top False Claims Generated by Artificial Intelligence Tools - NewsGuard6 claims · B1, B2
  • F21 NewsGuard — Tracking AI-enabled Misinformation: 3,749 AI Content Farm sites (and Counting), Plus the Top False Claims Generated by Artificial Intelligence Tools - NewsGuard, reports: AI Fools Itself documented · field
    NewsGuard tested three leading AI chatbots and found that in 78-95 percent of the prompts, the tools could not tell when videos were created by OpenAI’s text-to-video tool Sora — including OpenAI’s own ChatGPT.
  • F22 NewsGuard — Tracking AI-enabled Misinformation: 3,749 AI Content Farm sites (and Counting), Plus the Top False Claims Generated by Artificial Intelligence Tools - NewsGuard, reports: the Pravda network documented · field
    An audit found that the 10 leading generative AI tools advanced Moscow’s disinformation goals by repeating false claims from the pro-Kremlin Pravda network 33 percent of the time.
  • F23 NewsGuard — Tracking AI-enabled Misinformation: 3,749 AI Content Farm sites (and Counting), Plus the Top False Claims Generated by Artificial Intelligence Tools - NewsGuard, reports: DeepSeek documented · field
    Chinese artificial intelligence firm DeepSeek’s new chatbot failed to provide accurate information about news and information topics 83 percent of the time, scoring tied for 10th out of 11 in comparison to its leading Western competitors.
  • F24 NewsGuard — Tracking AI-enabled Misinformation: 3,749 AI Content Farm sites (and Counting), Plus the Top False Claims Generated by Artificial Intelligence Tools - NewsGuard, reports: blocking, title documented · field
    AI Chatbots Are Blocked by 67% of Top News Sites, Relying Instead on Low-Quality Sources
  • F25 NewsGuard — Tracking AI-enabled Misinformation: 3,749 AI Content Farm sites (and Counting), Plus the Top False Claims Generated by Artificial Intelligence Tools - NewsGuard, reports: blocking, summary documented · field
    Most high-quality news sites request to block AI chatbots. As a result, the chatbots may be forced to rely on lower-quality and misinformation-prone sources.
  • F34 NewsGuard — AI False Claims Monitor - NewsGuard, Our Journalistic Red-Teaming Approach documented · field
    We have found that these claims are increasingly generated by Russian, Chinese, and Iranian state-sponsored influence operations aiming to sow division and confusion in Western democracies.
12NewsGuard's products for AI companiesNewsGuard — NewsGuard Launches Tracking Center for AI-Generated News7 claims · B2, B3, B4
  • F36 NewsGuard — Artificial Intelligence - NewsGuard, ¶1 documented · field
    Trustworthy AI requires reliable data. Without quality sourcing and rigorous guardrails, AI products repeat false claims or provide inaccurate information 40+% of the time, especially on topics in the news.
  • F37 NewsGuard — Artificial Intelligence - NewsGuard, Source Reliability Ratings documented · field
    Our continuously updated Source Reliability Ratings datastream provides human-labeled data assessing the accuracy and reliability of 35,000 news and information sources based on apolitical journalistic criteria.
  • F38 NewsGuard — Artificial Intelligence - NewsGuard, Source Reliability Ratings documented · field
    With this datastream, AI companies can ensure news-related outputs are based on high-quality data sources in model training and RAG processes—and avoid citing unreliable sources in responses.
  • F39 NewsGuard — Artificial Intelligence - NewsGuard, False Claim Fingerprints documented · field
    NewsGuard’s False Claim Fingerprints datastream protects AI products against false claims spreading online that can enter responses through low-quality training data or RAG processes searching the open web.
  • F40 NewsGuard — Artificial Intelligence - NewsGuard, False Claim Fingerprints documented · field
    A continuously updated database of labeled data about false claims, the Fingerprints contain rich detail about where each claim has spread and how it is articulated in text, images, video, and audio assets across platforms—enabling full protection.
  • F33 NewsGuard — AI False Claims Monitor - NewsGuard, Bespoke Red Teaming documented · field
    Using a methodology similar to these monthly audits, NewsGuard offers bespoke red-teaming services to AI companies, based on their unique needs and areas of highest concern. The False Claim Fingerprints database is also available for AI models to license.
  • F53 NewsGuard — NewsGuard Launches Tracking Center for AI-Generated News, About NewsGuard ¶2 documented · field
    In February 2023, the company launched NewsGuard for AI, which provides the leading tools to train generative AI models to avoid spreading misinformation.
13NewsGuard's products for brands: Brand Misinformation MonitoringNewsGuard — Brand Misinformation Monitoring Service - NewsGuard4 claims · B5
  • F55 NewsGuard — Brand Misinformation Monitoring Service - NewsGuard, ¶1 documented · field
    NewsGuard’s team of journalistically-trained analysts provides brands with a real-time monitoring service to identify and respond to emerging false narratives before they cause reputational harm.
  • F56 NewsGuard — Brand Misinformation Monitoring Service - NewsGuard, ¶1 documented · field
    NewsGuard’s Brand Misinformation Monitoring service includes tracking provably false narratives related to a brand across social platforms, GenAI outputs and websites.
  • F57 NewsGuard — Brand Misinformation Monitoring Service - NewsGuard, Early Warning Alerts documented · field
    Early Warning Alerts: Real-time notifications of emerging false or harmful narratives including a narrative description, preliminary assessment, and data about the key drivers of the narrative’s spread.
  • F58 NewsGuard — Brand Misinformation Monitoring Service - NewsGuard, AI documented · field
    AI: Providing actionable insights into how clients are represented—or misrepresented—by AI models through services that identify and address hallucinations, false claims, AI-generated errors, and coordinated influence campaigns.
14the operator: NewsGuardNewsGuard — NewsGuard Launches Tracking Center for AI-Generated News6 claims · B4, B6
  • F52 NewsGuard — NewsGuard Launches Tracking Center for AI-Generated News, About NewsGuard ¶1 documented · field
    Launched in March 2018 by media entrepreneur and award-winning journalist Steven Brill and former Wall Street Journal publisher Gordon Crovitz, NewsGuard provides credibility ratings and detailed “Nutrition Labels” for thousands of news and information websites.
  • F54 NewsGuard — NewsGuard Launches Tracking Center for AI-Generated News, About NewsGuard ¶6 documented · field
    NewsGuard’s ratings and Nutrition Labels are licensed by browsers, news aggregators, education companies, and social media and search platforms to make NewsGuard’s information about news websites available to their users.
  • F59 Wikipedia — NewsGuard (the operator's article; the center has none), lead ¶1 documented · field
    NewsGuard is a rating system for news and information websites.
  • F60 Wikipedia — NewsGuard (the operator's article; the center has none), lead ¶1 documented · field
    NewsGuard Technologies Inc., the company behind the tool, also provides services such as misinformation tracking and brand safety for advertisers, search engines, social media platforms, cybersecurity firms, and government agencies.
  • F61 Wikipedia — NewsGuard (the operator's article; the center has none), History ¶1 documented · field
    NewsGuard Technologies was founded in 2018 by Steven Brill and L. Gordon Crovitz, who serve as co-CEOs.
  • F62 Wikipedia — NewsGuard (the operator's article; the center has none), short description (raw wikitext) documented · field
    Browser plugin that rates the credibility of news and information websites
15the encyclopedia: NewsGuard's AI auditsWikipedia — NewsGuard (the operator's article; the center has none)4 claims · B6
  • F63 Wikipedia — NewsGuard (the operator's article; the center has none), Ratings › Disinformation in AI ¶1 documented · field
    NewsGuard has audited the output of various AI models to identify disinformation.
  • F64 Wikipedia — NewsGuard (the operator's article; the center has none), Ratings › Disinformation in AI ¶1 documented · field
    In August 2025, they found that leading generative AI tools repeat false news claims 35% of the time on average.
  • F65 Wikipedia — NewsGuard (the operator's article; the center has none), Ratings › Disinformation in AI ¶1 documented · field
    NewsGuard also audited Sora 2 and found that it produced videos advancing fake claims in 80% of cases.
  • F66 Wikipedia — NewsGuard (the operator's article; the center has none), Ratings › Disinformation in AI ¶1 documented · field
    According to NewsGuard, Russian propaganda networks are attempting to "infect" large language models by spamming fake news, so that they will output more pro-Russia disinformation.
16the encyclopedia: the center absentWikipedia — NewsGuard (the operator's article; the center has none)1 claim · B6
  • F67 Wikipedia — NewsGuard (the operator's article; the center has none), Special:Search, "AI Tracking Center" (all articles), 2026-10-29 documented · field
    There were no results matching the query.
Expansion · The field's ontology — L_F(B)10 sentences · every one sourced below

NewsGuard AI Tracking Center

NewsGuard's AI Tracking Center, launched on 8 June 2023 as the "Unreliable AI-Generated News Tracking Center" (the launch release), "is intended to highlight the ways that generative AI has been deployed to turbocharge misinformation operations and unreliable news" and includes a selection of NewsGuard's reports, insights and debunks related to artificial intelligence (the center's page). Generative AI "has been a boon to content farms and misinformation purveyors alike" (the center's page), and Steven Brill likened the new sites to the Macedonian content farms of a few years before, cheaper to produce and more prolific (the launch release).

A domain enters when it meets four criteria, a substantial portion of AI-produced content, publication without significant human oversight (chatbot error messages are a sign), a presentation an average reader could take for human journalism, and no clear disclosure, and sites that use AI with effective human oversight are not AI Content Farms (the center's page); in 2023 the unit was the "Unreliable AI-Generated News" site (the launch release).

NewsGuard counted 49 sites in May 2023 and 150 in 12 languages at the launch (the launch release) and 3,749 in 16 languages by the page's update of 23 June 2026, the page signed by ten NewsGuard analysts, the sites bearing generic names and churning out dozens of articles a day (the center's page).

In many cases the sites live on programmatic advertising, which places ads "through ad-tech firms such as Google" (Crovitz, the launch release); unless brands exclude them their ads create "an economic incentive for their creation at scale" (the center's page), and generative AI is expected to grow the $2.6 billion a year directed to misinformation sites (the launch release). The full list of domains is given on request (the center's page; the launch release).

The page lists NewsGuard's AI reports, among them the monthly and then quarterly AI False Claims Monitor, a journalistic red-teaming of the leading chatbots on false claims from the Fingerprints database that found them repeating false claims more than 28% and then more than one third of the time, and debunks from the False Claim Fingerprints catalog (the center's page; the series' page). Other reports find Sora videos unrecognized in 78-95 percent of prompts, Pravda network claims repeated 33 percent of the time, DeepSeek failing 83 percent of the time, and 67% of top news sites blocking AI chatbots, which may then rely on lower-quality sources (the center's page), the claims increasingly from state influence operations (the series' page).

NewsGuard sells AI companies a Source Reliability Ratings datastream on 35,000 sources, a False Claim Fingerprints datastream and bespoke red-teaming, the offer resting on AI products erring 40+% of the time on news (NewsGuard's AI page; the series' page; the launch release), and sells brands a Brand Misinformation Monitoring service that tracks false narratives across social platforms, GenAI outputs and websites (the service's page).

NewsGuard, launched in 2018 by Steven Brill and Gordon Crovitz, rates news websites and licenses its ratings (the launch release); Wikipedia calls it "a rating system for news and information websites" and reports its AI audits, 35% false claims on average in August 2025 and Sora 2 at 80%, and has no article or section on the center (Wikipedia).

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10 sentences; 67 field claims, 0 archive claims. Modality is the source's own; the prose carries it in its grammar.

1.NewsGuard's AI Tracking Center, launched on 8 June 2023 as the "Unreliable AI-Generated News Tracking Center" (the launch release), "is intended to highlight the ways that generative AI has been deployed to turbocharge misinformation operations and unreliable news" and includes a selection of NewsGuard's reports, insights and debunks related to artificial intelligence (the center's page).3
  • F42 NewsGuard — NewsGuard Launches Tracking Center for AI-Generated News, ¶1 (dateline) documented · field
    (June 8, 2023 — New York City) As part of its efforts to guard readers, brands, and democracies against unreliable news and information, NewsGuard has launched an ”Unreliable AI-Generated News Tracking Center,” cataloging the ways that generative AI has been deployed to turbocharge misinformation operations and low-quality content farms.
  • F1 NewsGuard — Tracking AI-enabled Misinformation: 3,749 AI Content Farm sites (and Counting), Plus the Top False Claims Generated by Artificial Intelligence Tools - NewsGuard, ¶2 (opening) documented · field
    This AI Tracking Center is intended to highlight the ways that generative AI has been deployed to turbocharge misinformation operations and unreliable news.
  • F2 NewsGuard — Tracking AI-enabled Misinformation: 3,749 AI Content Farm sites (and Counting), Plus the Top False Claims Generated by Artificial Intelligence Tools - NewsGuard, ¶2 documented · field
    The Center includes a selection of NewsGuard’s reports, insights, and debunks related to artificial intelligence.
2.Generative AI "has been a boon to content farms and misinformation purveyors alike" (the center's page), and Steven Brill likened the new sites to the Macedonian content farms of a few years before, cheaper to produce and more prolific (the launch release).2
  • F3 NewsGuard — Tracking AI-enabled Misinformation: 3,749 AI Content Farm sites (and Counting), Plus the Top False Claims Generated by Artificial Intelligence Tools - NewsGuard, ¶1 documented · field
    From unreliable AI-generated news outlets operating with little to no human oversight, to fabricated images produced by AI image generators, the rollout of generative artificial intelligence tools has been a boon to content farms and misinformation purveyors alike.
  • F46 NewsGuard — NewsGuard Launches Tracking Center for AI-Generated News, ¶4 (Brill) documented · field
    Today’s AI-generated ‘news’ websites are akin to the misinformation-spreading Macedonian content farms from a few years ago, with the distinction that these new sites cost even less to produce and can become even more prolific with the enhancements of artificial intelligence.
3.A domain enters when it meets four criteria, a substantial portion of AI-produced content, publication without significant human oversight (chatbot error messages are a sign), a presentation an average reader could take for human journalism, and no clear disclosure, and sites that use AI with effective human oversight are not AI Content Farms (the center's page); in 2023 the unit was the "Unreliable AI-Generated News" site (the launch release).9
  • F10 NewsGuard — Tracking AI-enabled Misinformation: 3,749 AI Content Farm sites (and Counting), Plus the Top False Claims Generated by Artificial Intelligence Tools - NewsGuard, criteria, head documented · field
    The domains included on this tracker meet all four of the following criteria:
  • F11 NewsGuard — Tracking AI-enabled Misinformation: 3,749 AI Content Farm sites (and Counting), Plus the Top False Claims Generated by Artificial Intelligence Tools - NewsGuard, criterion 1 documented · field
    There is clear evidence that a substantial portion of the site’s content is produced by AI.
  • F12 NewsGuard — Tracking AI-enabled Misinformation: 3,749 AI Content Farm sites (and Counting), Plus the Top False Claims Generated by Artificial Intelligence Tools - NewsGuard, criterion 2 documented · field
    Equally important, there is strong evidence that the content is being published without significant human oversight.
  • F13 NewsGuard — Tracking AI-enabled Misinformation: 3,749 AI Content Farm sites (and Counting), Plus the Top False Claims Generated by Artificial Intelligence Tools - NewsGuard, criterion 2, example documented · field
    For example, numerous articles might contain error messages or other language specific to chatbot responses, indicating that the content was produced by AI tools without adequate editing.
  • F15 NewsGuard — Tracking AI-enabled Misinformation: 3,749 AI Content Farm sites (and Counting), Plus the Top False Claims Generated by Artificial Intelligence Tools - NewsGuard, criterion 3 documented · field
    The site is presented in a way that an average reader could assume that its content is produced by human writers or journalists, because the site has a layout, generic or benign name, or other content typical to news and information websites.
  • F16 NewsGuard — Tracking AI-enabled Misinformation: 3,749 AI Content Farm sites (and Counting), Plus the Top False Claims Generated by Artificial Intelligence Tools - NewsGuard, criterion 4 documented · field
    The site does not clearly disclose that its content is produced by AI.
  • F14 NewsGuard — Tracking AI-enabled Misinformation: 3,749 AI Content Farm sites (and Counting), Plus the Top False Claims Generated by Artificial Intelligence Tools - NewsGuard, criterion 2, parenthesis documented · field
    (It is likely that now or in the future many news sites will use AI tools but also deploy effective human oversight; they will not be considered AI Content Farms.)
  • F43 NewsGuard — NewsGuard Launches Tracking Center for AI-Generated News, ¶3 documented · field
    These are low-quality news sites that are mostly or entirely produced by artificial intelligence and that operate with little to no human oversight.
  • F41 NewsGuard — NewsGuard Launches Tracking Center for AI-Generated News, subtitle documented · field
    The tracker features 150 ‘Unreliable AI-Generated News’ websites as well as NewsGuard reports, insights, and debunks about false narratives and other misinformation relating to artificial intelligence; number of such sites has more than tripled in past month.
4.NewsGuard counted 49 sites in May 2023 and 150 in 12 languages at the launch (the launch release) and 3,749 in 16 languages by the page's update of 23 June 2026, the page signed by ten NewsGuard analysts, the sites bearing generic names and churning out dozens of articles a day (the center's page).6
  • F44 NewsGuard — NewsGuard Launches Tracking Center for AI-Generated News, ¶3 documented · field
    In May, when NewsGuard did its first count, the number was 49.
  • F45 NewsGuard — NewsGuard Launches Tracking Center for AI-Generated News, ¶6 documented · field
    As noted above, NewsGuard has now identified 150 UAINs in 12 languages: Arabic, Chinese, Czech, Dutch, English, French, Indonesian, Korean, Portuguese, Tagalog, Thai, and Turkish.
  • F41 NewsGuard — NewsGuard Launches Tracking Center for AI-Generated News, subtitle documented · field
    The tracker features 150 ‘Unreliable AI-Generated News’ websites as well as NewsGuard reports, insights, and debunks about false narratives and other misinformation relating to artificial intelligence; number of such sites has more than tripled in past month.
  • F4 NewsGuard — Tracking AI-enabled Misinformation: 3,749 AI Content Farm sites (and Counting), Plus the Top False Claims Generated by Artificial Intelligence Tools - NewsGuard, ¶3 documented · field
    To date, NewsGuard’s team has identified 3,749 AI Content Farm news and information websites spanning 16 languages: Arabic, Chinese, Czech, Dutch, English, French, German, Indonesian, Italian, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Tagalog, Thai, and Turkish.
  • F5 NewsGuard — Tracking AI-enabled Misinformation: 3,749 AI Content Farm sites (and Counting), Plus the Top False Claims Generated by Artificial Intelligence Tools - NewsGuard, byline documented · field
    Coverage by McKenzie Sadeghi, Dimitris Dimitriadis, Virginia Padovese, Giulia Pozzi, Sara Badilini, Chiara Vercellone, Natalie Huet, Zack Fishman, Leonie Pfaller, and Natalie Adams | Last Updated June 23, 2026
  • F6 NewsGuard — Tracking AI-enabled Misinformation: 3,749 AI Content Farm sites (and Counting), Plus the Top False Claims Generated by Artificial Intelligence Tools - NewsGuard, ¶4 documented · field
    These websites – which typically feature generic names such as Times Business News and Business Post – also tend to churn out dozens of articles a day and are often the originators of false claims including about top brands, public health, political leaders and celebrities.
5.In many cases the sites live on programmatic advertising, which places ads "through ad-tech firms such as Google" (Crovitz, the launch release); unless brands exclude them their ads create "an economic incentive for their creation at scale" (the center's page), and generative AI is expected to grow the $2.6 billion a year directed to misinformation sites (the launch release).6
  • F7 NewsGuard — Tracking AI-enabled Misinformation: 3,749 AI Content Farm sites (and Counting), Plus the Top False Claims Generated by Artificial Intelligence Tools - NewsGuard, ¶4 documented · field
    In many cases, the revenue model for these websites is programmatic advertising under which the ad-tech industry delivers ads without regard to the nature or quality of the website.
  • F49 NewsGuard — NewsGuard Launches Tracking Center for AI-Generated News, ¶9 documented · field
    In many cases, the revenue model for these websites is programmatic advertising through which the ad-tech industry delivers ads without regard to the nature or quality of the website.
  • F47 NewsGuard — NewsGuard Launches Tracking Center for AI-Generated News, ¶5 (Crovitz) documented · field
    Most of these sites were created with the business model of generating revenue from programmatic advertising, which seems to be working.
  • F48 NewsGuard — NewsGuard Launches Tracking Center for AI-Generated News, ¶5 (Crovitz) documented · field
    the opaque system that operates programmatic advertising means these ads appear through ad-tech firms such as Google
  • F8 NewsGuard — Tracking AI-enabled Misinformation: 3,749 AI Content Farm sites (and Counting), Plus the Top False Claims Generated by Artificial Intelligence Tools - NewsGuard, ¶4 documented · field
    Unless brands take steps to exclude untrustworthy sites, their ads will continue to appear on these types of sites, creating an economic incentive for their creation at scale.
  • F50 NewsGuard — NewsGuard Launches Tracking Center for AI-Generated News, ¶10 documented · field
    It is expected that generative AI will allow more players to tap into or even grow the estimated $2.6 billion of advertising revenue per year that NewsGuard and Comscore found to be unintentionally directed toward misinformation news sites.
6.The full list of domains is given on request (the center's page; the launch release).2
  • F9 NewsGuard — Tracking AI-enabled Misinformation: 3,749 AI Content Farm sites (and Counting), Plus the Top False Claims Generated by Artificial Intelligence Tools - NewsGuard, ¶5 documented · field
    Researchers, platforms, advertisers, government agencies, and other institutions interested in accessing the full list of domains or who want details about our services for generative AI companies can contact us here.
  • F51 NewsGuard — NewsGuard Launches Tracking Center for AI-Generated News, ¶11 documented · field
    Researchers, platforms, advertisers, government agencies, or other institutions interested in accessing the full list of domains generated by artificial intelligence and operating with little to no human oversight can contact us here: Request domain list.
7.The page lists NewsGuard's AI reports, among them the monthly and then quarterly AI False Claims Monitor, a journalistic red-teaming of the leading chatbots on false claims from the Fingerprints database that found them repeating false claims more than 28% and then more than one third of the time, and debunks from the False Claim Fingerprints catalog (the center's page; the series' page).12
  • F17 NewsGuard — Tracking AI-enabled Misinformation: 3,749 AI Content Farm sites (and Counting), Plus the Top False Claims Generated by Artificial Intelligence Tools - NewsGuard, reports, head documented · field
    Below is a selection of NewsGuard’s reports and research related to AI:
  • F26 NewsGuard — Tracking AI-enabled Misinformation: 3,749 AI Content Farm sites (and Counting), Plus the Top False Claims Generated by Artificial Intelligence Tools - NewsGuard, debunks, head documented · field
    Below is a selection of false narratives originating from artificial intelligence tools and that NewsGuard has identified and debunked in its False Claim Fingerprints catalog:
  • F27 NewsGuard — Tracking AI-enabled Misinformation: 3,749 AI Content Farm sites (and Counting), Plus the Top False Claims Generated by Artificial Intelligence Tools - NewsGuard, debunks, first item documented · field
    Debunk: Iranian Missile With Epstein Inscription Is an AI Fabrication
  • F18 NewsGuard — Tracking AI-enabled Misinformation: 3,749 AI Content Farm sites (and Counting), Plus the Top False Claims Generated by Artificial Intelligence Tools - NewsGuard, reports, the series (first item) documented · field
    Quarterly audit of the 11 leading generative AI tools and their propensity — more than 28% — to repeat false claims on controversial topics in the news.
  • F19 NewsGuard — Tracking AI-enabled Misinformation: 3,749 AI Content Farm sites (and Counting), Plus the Top False Claims Generated by Artificial Intelligence Tools - NewsGuard, reports, the series documented · field
    NewsGuard’s audit of the 10 leading generative AI tools and their propensity to repeat false claims on topics in the news reveals the rate of publishing false information nearly doubled — now providing false claims to news prompts more than one third of the time.
  • F20 NewsGuard — Tracking AI-enabled Misinformation: 3,749 AI Content Farm sites (and Counting), Plus the Top False Claims Generated by Artificial Intelligence Tools - NewsGuard, reports, the series (last item) documented · field
    July 2024 — NewsGuard Monthly AI Misinformation Monitor of Leading AI Chatbots
  • F35 NewsGuard — AI False Claims Monitor - NewsGuard, editions list documented · field
    Quarterly AI False Claim Monitor — January 2026
  • F28 NewsGuard — AI False Claims Monitor - NewsGuard, ¶2 documented · field
    Since its launch in July 2024, NewsGuard’s Monthly AI False Claims Monitor has set a new standard for measuring the trustworthiness of the AI industry in the domain of news.
  • F29 NewsGuard — AI False Claims Monitor - NewsGuard, Our Journalistic Red-Teaming Approach documented · field
    To address these issues, NewsGuard has pioneered a distinct approach to “red-teaming” AI — using a journalistic method grounded in rigorously verified data and human expertise.
  • F30 NewsGuard — AI False Claims Monitor - NewsGuard, What We’re Tracking documented · field
    Multiple user personas: 30 prompts per AI model, based on 10 significant false claims each month from NewsGuard’s False Claim Fingerprints database.
  • F31 NewsGuard — AI False Claims Monitor - NewsGuard, Our Journalistic Red-Teaming Approach documented · field
    Our analysts evaluate the top AI models monthly to identify vulnerabilities in AI systems that result in the spread of false information.
  • F32 NewsGuard — AI False Claims Monitor - NewsGuard, Our Journalistic Red-Teaming Approach documented · field
    In tests thus far, we’ve found that NewsGuard’s false claim red-teaming reduces failures by two thirds or more.
8.Other reports find Sora videos unrecognized in 78-95 percent of prompts, Pravda network claims repeated 33 percent of the time, DeepSeek failing 83 percent of the time, and 67% of top news sites blocking AI chatbots, which may then rely on lower-quality sources (the center's page), the claims increasingly from state influence operations (the series' page).6
  • F21 NewsGuard — Tracking AI-enabled Misinformation: 3,749 AI Content Farm sites (and Counting), Plus the Top False Claims Generated by Artificial Intelligence Tools - NewsGuard, reports: AI Fools Itself documented · field
    NewsGuard tested three leading AI chatbots and found that in 78-95 percent of the prompts, the tools could not tell when videos were created by OpenAI’s text-to-video tool Sora — including OpenAI’s own ChatGPT.
  • F22 NewsGuard — Tracking AI-enabled Misinformation: 3,749 AI Content Farm sites (and Counting), Plus the Top False Claims Generated by Artificial Intelligence Tools - NewsGuard, reports: the Pravda network documented · field
    An audit found that the 10 leading generative AI tools advanced Moscow’s disinformation goals by repeating false claims from the pro-Kremlin Pravda network 33 percent of the time.
  • F23 NewsGuard — Tracking AI-enabled Misinformation: 3,749 AI Content Farm sites (and Counting), Plus the Top False Claims Generated by Artificial Intelligence Tools - NewsGuard, reports: DeepSeek documented · field
    Chinese artificial intelligence firm DeepSeek’s new chatbot failed to provide accurate information about news and information topics 83 percent of the time, scoring tied for 10th out of 11 in comparison to its leading Western competitors.
  • F24 NewsGuard — Tracking AI-enabled Misinformation: 3,749 AI Content Farm sites (and Counting), Plus the Top False Claims Generated by Artificial Intelligence Tools - NewsGuard, reports: blocking, title documented · field
    AI Chatbots Are Blocked by 67% of Top News Sites, Relying Instead on Low-Quality Sources
  • F25 NewsGuard — Tracking AI-enabled Misinformation: 3,749 AI Content Farm sites (and Counting), Plus the Top False Claims Generated by Artificial Intelligence Tools - NewsGuard, reports: blocking, summary documented · field
    Most high-quality news sites request to block AI chatbots. As a result, the chatbots may be forced to rely on lower-quality and misinformation-prone sources.
  • F34 NewsGuard — AI False Claims Monitor - NewsGuard, Our Journalistic Red-Teaming Approach documented · field
    We have found that these claims are increasingly generated by Russian, Chinese, and Iranian state-sponsored influence operations aiming to sow division and confusion in Western democracies.
9.NewsGuard sells AI companies a Source Reliability Ratings datastream on 35,000 sources, a False Claim Fingerprints datastream and bespoke red-teaming, the offer resting on AI products erring 40+% of the time on news (NewsGuard's AI page; the series' page; the launch release), and sells brands a Brand Misinformation Monitoring service that tracks false narratives across social platforms, GenAI outputs and websites (the service's page).11
  • F36 NewsGuard — Artificial Intelligence - NewsGuard, ¶1 documented · field
    Trustworthy AI requires reliable data. Without quality sourcing and rigorous guardrails, AI products repeat false claims or provide inaccurate information 40+% of the time, especially on topics in the news.
  • F37 NewsGuard — Artificial Intelligence - NewsGuard, Source Reliability Ratings documented · field
    Our continuously updated Source Reliability Ratings datastream provides human-labeled data assessing the accuracy and reliability of 35,000 news and information sources based on apolitical journalistic criteria.
  • F38 NewsGuard — Artificial Intelligence - NewsGuard, Source Reliability Ratings documented · field
    With this datastream, AI companies can ensure news-related outputs are based on high-quality data sources in model training and RAG processes—and avoid citing unreliable sources in responses.
  • F39 NewsGuard — Artificial Intelligence - NewsGuard, False Claim Fingerprints documented · field
    NewsGuard’s False Claim Fingerprints datastream protects AI products against false claims spreading online that can enter responses through low-quality training data or RAG processes searching the open web.
  • F40 NewsGuard — Artificial Intelligence - NewsGuard, False Claim Fingerprints documented · field
    A continuously updated database of labeled data about false claims, the Fingerprints contain rich detail about where each claim has spread and how it is articulated in text, images, video, and audio assets across platforms—enabling full protection.
  • F33 NewsGuard — AI False Claims Monitor - NewsGuard, Bespoke Red Teaming documented · field
    Using a methodology similar to these monthly audits, NewsGuard offers bespoke red-teaming services to AI companies, based on their unique needs and areas of highest concern. The False Claim Fingerprints database is also available for AI models to license.
  • F53 NewsGuard — NewsGuard Launches Tracking Center for AI-Generated News, About NewsGuard ¶2 documented · field
    In February 2023, the company launched NewsGuard for AI, which provides the leading tools to train generative AI models to avoid spreading misinformation.
  • F55 NewsGuard — Brand Misinformation Monitoring Service - NewsGuard, ¶1 documented · field
    NewsGuard’s team of journalistically-trained analysts provides brands with a real-time monitoring service to identify and respond to emerging false narratives before they cause reputational harm.
  • F56 NewsGuard — Brand Misinformation Monitoring Service - NewsGuard, ¶1 documented · field
    NewsGuard’s Brand Misinformation Monitoring service includes tracking provably false narratives related to a brand across social platforms, GenAI outputs and websites.
  • F57 NewsGuard — Brand Misinformation Monitoring Service - NewsGuard, Early Warning Alerts documented · field
    Early Warning Alerts: Real-time notifications of emerging false or harmful narratives including a narrative description, preliminary assessment, and data about the key drivers of the narrative’s spread.
  • F58 NewsGuard — Brand Misinformation Monitoring Service - NewsGuard, AI documented · field
    AI: Providing actionable insights into how clients are represented—or misrepresented—by AI models through services that identify and address hallucinations, false claims, AI-generated errors, and coordinated influence campaigns.
10.NewsGuard, launched in 2018 by Steven Brill and Gordon Crovitz, rates news websites and licenses its ratings (the launch release); Wikipedia calls it "a rating system for news and information websites" and reports its AI audits, 35% false claims on average in August 2025 and Sora 2 at 80%, and has no article or section on the center (Wikipedia).11
  • F52 NewsGuard — NewsGuard Launches Tracking Center for AI-Generated News, About NewsGuard ¶1 documented · field
    Launched in March 2018 by media entrepreneur and award-winning journalist Steven Brill and former Wall Street Journal publisher Gordon Crovitz, NewsGuard provides credibility ratings and detailed “Nutrition Labels” for thousands of news and information websites.
  • F54 NewsGuard — NewsGuard Launches Tracking Center for AI-Generated News, About NewsGuard ¶6 documented · field
    NewsGuard’s ratings and Nutrition Labels are licensed by browsers, news aggregators, education companies, and social media and search platforms to make NewsGuard’s information about news websites available to their users.
  • F59 Wikipedia — NewsGuard (the operator's article; the center has none), lead ¶1 documented · field
    NewsGuard is a rating system for news and information websites.
  • F60 Wikipedia — NewsGuard (the operator's article; the center has none), lead ¶1 documented · field
    NewsGuard Technologies Inc., the company behind the tool, also provides services such as misinformation tracking and brand safety for advertisers, search engines, social media platforms, cybersecurity firms, and government agencies.
  • F61 Wikipedia — NewsGuard (the operator's article; the center has none), History ¶1 documented · field
    NewsGuard Technologies was founded in 2018 by Steven Brill and L. Gordon Crovitz, who serve as co-CEOs.
  • F62 Wikipedia — NewsGuard (the operator's article; the center has none), short description (raw wikitext) documented · field
    Browser plugin that rates the credibility of news and information websites
  • F63 Wikipedia — NewsGuard (the operator's article; the center has none), Ratings › Disinformation in AI ¶1 documented · field
    NewsGuard has audited the output of various AI models to identify disinformation.
  • F64 Wikipedia — NewsGuard (the operator's article; the center has none), Ratings › Disinformation in AI ¶1 documented · field
    In August 2025, they found that leading generative AI tools repeat false news claims 35% of the time on average.
  • F65 Wikipedia — NewsGuard (the operator's article; the center has none), Ratings › Disinformation in AI ¶1 documented · field
    NewsGuard also audited Sora 2 and found that it produced videos advancing fake claims in 80% of cases.
  • F66 Wikipedia — NewsGuard (the operator's article; the center has none), Ratings › Disinformation in AI ¶1 documented · field
    According to NewsGuard, Russian propaganda networks are attempting to "infect" large language models by spamming fake news, so that they will output more pro-Russia disinformation.
  • F67 Wikipedia — NewsGuard (the operator's article; the center has none), Special:Search, "AI Tracking Center" (all articles), 2026-10-29 documented · field
    There were no results matching the query.

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  • T1 definition: 'The NewsGuard AI Tracking Center is an ongoing investigative project by NewsGuard that monitors and catalogs artificial intelligence-generated misinformation, unreliable AI news sites, and AI tool vulnerabilities.' (markers [1], [2])
  • T2 content farms: 'AI Content Farms: Identified 3,749+ unedited AI content farm sites operating across 16 languages that mimic human news layouts and monetize via programmatic advertising.' (marker [1])
  • T3 audits: 'Chatbot & Tool Audits: Found that leading generative AI tools repeat known news false claims in 28% to over 33% of prompts, fail to recognize AI-generated video (such as Sora) in 78% to 95% of prompts, and occasionally propagate state-sponsored disinformation.' (marker [1])
  • T4 blocking: 'Publisher Blockades: Approximately 67% of top global news sites actively block AI crawlers and chatbots, pushing AI systems toward lower-quality data sources.' (marker [1])
  • T5 the series as a tool: 'AI False Claims Monitor: Launched to measure AI reliability using a journalistic red-teaming approach and a "False Claim Fingerprint" database.' (marker [1])
  • T6 a product as a tool: 'False Claim Fingerprints: A continuously updated database tracking false narratives across text, images, audio, and video to help safeguard AI models and brands.' (markers [1], [2])
  • T7 a product as a tool: 'Brand Misinformation Monitoring: Real-time tracking and early-warning alerts designed to help advertisers and enterprises avoid funding or amplifying AI-generated falsehoods.' (marker [1])
  • T8 closer: 'Would you like to explore specific data from the AI False Claims Monitor or learn how NewsGuard audits generative AI chatbots?'
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E_A, the archive's entity: The AI Tracking Center as the MMRS meta-aggregator records it (editor Lee Sharks, 2026-10-28, corrected 2026-10-29): a monitor, run by NewsGuard, that catalogues AI content farm websites, unreliable news sites run with little or no human oversight, by four criteria, 3,749 in 16 languages as of 23 June 2026; its selection leaves out what discloses itself; it records the supply side of machine-mediated reception, the sites that answer surfaces may retrieve and cite, and its series, the AI False Claim Monitor, a distinct entity and its part, records the composition side; active, kept apart from the observation that read it; held, by the Capture Registry, as the catalogue and not as NewsGuard's offer. In the archive's class reading, content farms compress journalism into SEO-optimized paraphrase, and the compression burns authorial context and citational provenance (#641). MMRS-01 MMRS-11 MMRS-12 MMRS-13 MMRS-03 MMRS-04 MMRS-05 MMRS-06 MMRS-07 MMRS-02 MMRS-19 MMRS-16 MMRS-17 CAP-1-04 CAP-1-07 O641-01; defining papers #641

E_F, the field's entity (type C — a conventional reading holds it (public entity: a monitor, NewsGuard's special report cataloguing AI content farm websites, with a selection of NewsGuard's AI reports; on its operator's site among its commercial products)): The NewsGuard AI Tracking Center, launched on 8 June 2023 as the 'Unreliable AI-Generated News Tracking Center' (B4), intended 'to highlight the ways that generative AI has been deployed to turbocharge misinformation operations and unreliable news' and including a selection of NewsGuard's AI reports, insights and debunks (B1); its unit the AI Content Farm, by four criteria (substantial AI-produced content, no significant human oversight, a presentation an average reader could take for human journalism, no clear disclosure), sites with effective human oversight excluded (B1); 3,749 such sites in 16 languages by 23 June 2026, 150 at launch (B1, B4); funded in many cases by programmatic advertising (B1, B4); the full list on request (B1, B4); run by NewsGuard, whose pages also carry its AI audit series (B2) and its commercial products for AI companies and brands (B3, B5). No Wikipedia article; NewsGuard's article reports its AI audits and has no section on the center (B6).

ρ = extends: The archive reads E_F as the entity and adds senses, limits and relations on it: what the selection leaves out (MMRS-04, MMRS-05), the supply side and the composition side (MMRS-06, MMRS-07), the series as a distinct part (MMRS-19), the catalogue kept apart from NewsGuard's products (CAP-1-06, CAP-1-07), the lifecycle apart from the observation (MMRS-16, MMRS-17), the class reading of content farms (O641-01), and the reception record (CAP-1-01, CAP-1-05). MMRS-04 MMRS-05 MMRS-06 MMRS-07 MMRS-19 CAP-1-06 CAP-1-07 MMRS-16 MMRS-17 O641-01 CAP-1-01 CAP-1-05. Guard: ρ = extends claims an addition and no more (§1.2a). Where an archive claim and a field claim differ in grain (the record's single exit by disclosure, MMRS-04, beside the field's two, F16 and F14; 'hosts', MMRS-02, beside 'a selection of NewsGuard's reports', F17), both are composed with their sources (P_coh) and the difference is carried open. #641's claim is said of content farms as a class, not of the center by name; it enters by O-class on a class sourced from the field (B1, B4).

The case: equal terms, ontology included (v0.9). The archive's account of the AI Tracking Center extends the field's ontology on the field's own object. The MMRS record holds the entity the field holds: NewsGuard's catalogue of AI content farm websites by four criteria, 3,749 in 16 languages, with its series, every field fact restated from the center's own page with source and basis 'operator' (census.json evidence). It adds senses the field does not have: what the selection leaves out, read as disclosure (MMRS-04); the center's place on the supply side of machine-mediated reception and its series on the composition side (MMRS-06, MMRS-07); the lifecycle kept apart from the observation (MMRS-16, MMRS-17); the catalogue held as the entity against the composition that widens it to NewsGuard's offer (CAP-1-06, CAP-1-07); and a class reading of content farms (#641). Nothing in the archive denies a field presupposition, and the archive supplies no ontology the field lacks: the law of the suppressed witness (§0.10) does not apply.

#MMRS articles.py ARTICLES['newsguard-ai-tracking-center'], kernel: NewsGuard's AI Tracking Center catalogues AI content farm websites, unreliable news sites run with little or no human oversight: 3,749 in 16 languages as of 23 June 2026.

#MMRS articles.py ARTICLES['newsguard-ai-tracking-center'], section 'What its selection leaves out': Disclosure takes a site out. A site that says its content is machine-made is outside the catalogue whatever it publishes.

#MMRS articles.py ARTICLES['newsguard-ai-tracking-center'], section 'Place in the field': It records the supply side of machine-mediated reception: the sites that answer surfaces may retrieve and cite. Its series, the False Claim Monitor, records the composition side.

#MMRS census.json rows[slug == 'newsguard-ai-tracking-center'], evidence.unit: {"src": "newsguardtech.com/special-reports/ai-tracking-center", "basis": "operator"}

#capture-registry newsguard-ai-tracking-center-aio-20261029, analysis: The center is composed from its maker's pages, and the maker's products come with it: the entity widens from a catalogue to a company's offer. The record keeps the catalogue as the entity.

#641 § 'The extraction crisis': Content farms compress journalism into SEO-optimized paraphrase.

τthe translation: every field claim carried, beside its statement in the archive's ontology67 field claims · 16 rows
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F1, F42F1 (B1, ¶2 (opening)): "This AI Tracking Center is intended to highlight the ways that generative AI has been deployed to turbocharge misinformation operations and unreliable news."; F42 (B4, ¶1 (dateline)): "(June 8, 2023 — New York City) As part of its efforts to guard readers, brands, and democracies against unreliable news and information, NewsGuard has launched an ”Unreliable AI-Generated News Tracking Center,” cataloging the ways that generative AI has been deployed to turbocharge misinformation operations and low-quality content farms."—untranslated: composed as received beside MMRS-08, MMRS-09, MMRS-16, MMRS-17MMRS-08, MMRS-09, MMRS-16, MMRS-17
F2, F17, F26, F27F2 (B1, ¶2): "The Center includes a selection of NewsGuard’s reports, insights, and debunks related to artificial intelligence."; F17 (B1, reports, head): "Below is a selection of NewsGuard’s reports and research related to AI:"; F26 (B1, debunks, head): "Below is a selection of false narratives originating from artificial intelligence tools and that NewsGuard has identified and debunked in its False Claim Fingerprints catalog:"; F27 (B1, debunks, first item): "Debunk: Iranian Missile With Epstein Inscription Is an AI Fabrication"—untranslated: composed as received beside MMRS-02, CAP-1-04MMRS-02, CAP-1-04
F3, F46F3 (B1, ¶1): "From unreliable AI-generated news outlets operating with little to no human oversight, to fabricated images produced by AI image generators, the rollout of generative artificial intelligence tools has been a boon to content farms and misinformation purveyors alike."; F46 (B4, ¶4 (Brill)): "Today’s AI-generated ‘news’ websites are akin to the misinformation-spreading Macedonian content farms from a few years ago, with the distinction that these new sites cost even less to produce and can become even more prolific with the enhancements of artificial intelligence."—untranslated: composed as received beside O641-01O641-01
F4, F41, F44, F45F4 (B1, ¶3): "To date, NewsGuard’s team has identified 3,749 AI Content Farm news and information websites spanning 16 languages: Arabic, Chinese, Czech, Dutch, English, French, German, Indonesian, Italian, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Tagalog, Thai, and Turkish."; F41 (B4, subtitle): "The tracker features 150 ‘Unreliable AI-Generated News’ websites as well as NewsGuard reports, insights, and debunks about false narratives and other misinformation relating to artificial intelligence; number of such sites has more than tripled in past month."; F44 (B4, ¶3): "In May, when NewsGuard did its first count, the number was 49."; F45 (B4, ¶6): "As noted above, NewsGuard has now identified 150 UAINs in 12 languages: Arabic, Chinese, Czech, Dutch, English, French, Indonesian, Korean, Portuguese, Tagalog, Thai, and Turkish."—untranslated: composed as received beside MMRS-01, MMRS-14, MMRS-15, CAP-1-01MMRS-01, MMRS-14, MMRS-15, CAP-1-01
F5F5 (B1, byline): "Coverage by McKenzie Sadeghi, Dimitris Dimitriadis, Virginia Padovese, Giulia Pozzi, Sara Badilini, Chiara Vercellone, Natalie Huet, Zack Fishman, Leonie Pfaller, and Natalie Adams | Last Updated June 23, 2026"—untranslated: composed as received beside MMRS-18MMRS-18
F6F6 (B1, ¶4): "These websites – which typically feature generic names such as Times Business News and Business Post – also tend to churn out dozens of articles a day and are often the originators of false claims including about top brands, public health, political leaders and celebrities."—untranslated: composed as received beside no archive claim (the archive states nothing on this lineage)
F7, F8, F47, F48, F49, F50F7 (B1, ¶4): "In many cases, the revenue model for these websites is programmatic advertising under which the ad-tech industry delivers ads without regard to the nature or quality of the website."; F8 (B1, ¶4): "Unless brands take steps to exclude untrustworthy sites, their ads will continue to appear on these types of sites, creating an economic incentive for their creation at scale."; F47 (B4, ¶5 (Crovitz)): "Most of these sites were created with the business model of generating revenue from programmatic advertising, which seems to be working."; F48 (B4, ¶5 (Crovitz)): "the opaque system that operates programmatic advertising means these ads appear through ad-tech firms such as Google"; F49 (B4, ¶9): "In many cases, the revenue model for these websites is programmatic advertising through which the ad-tech industry delivers ads without regard to the nature or quality of the website."; F50 (B4, ¶10): "It is expected that generative AI will allow more players to tap into or even grow the estimated $2.6 billion of advertising revenue per year that NewsGuard and Comscore found to be unintentionally directed toward misinformation news sites."—untranslated: composed as received beside no archive claim (the archive states nothing on this lineage)
F9, F51F9 (B1, ¶5): "Researchers, platforms, advertisers, government agencies, and other institutions interested in accessing the full list of domains or who want details about our services for generative AI companies can contact us here."; F51 (B4, ¶11): "Researchers, platforms, advertisers, government agencies, or other institutions interested in accessing the full list of domains generated by artificial intelligence and operating with little to no human oversight can contact us here: Request domain list."—untranslated: composed as received beside no archive claim (the archive states nothing on this lineage)
F10, F11, F12, F13, F14, F15, F16, F43F10 (B1, criteria, head): "The domains included on this tracker meet all four of the following criteria:"; F11 (B1, criterion 1): "There is clear evidence that a substantial portion of the site’s content is produced by AI."; F12 (B1, criterion 2): "Equally important, there is strong evidence that the content is being published without significant human oversight."; F13 (B1, criterion 2, example): "For example, numerous articles might contain error messages or other language specific to chatbot responses, indicating that the content was produced by AI tools without adequate editing."; F14 (B1, criterion 2, parenthesis): "(It is likely that now or in the future many news sites will use AI tools but also deploy effective human oversight; they will not be considered AI Content Farms.)"; F15 (B1, criterion 3): "The site is presented in a way that an average reader could assume that its content is produced by human writers or journalists, because the site has a layout, generic or benign name, or other content typical to news and information websites."; F16 (B1, criterion 4): "The site does not clearly disclose that its content is produced by AI."; F43 (B4, ¶3): "These are low-quality news sites that are mostly or entirely produced by artificial intelligence and that operate with little to no human oversight."—untranslated: composed as received beside MMRS-03, MMRS-13, MMRS-04, MMRS-05, MMRS-11MMRS-03, MMRS-13, MMRS-04, MMRS-05, MMRS-11
F18, F19, F20, F28, F29, F30, F31, F32, F35F18 (B1, reports, the series (first item)): "Quarterly audit of the 11 leading generative AI tools and their propensity — more than 28% — to repeat false claims on controversial topics in the news."; F19 (B1, reports, the series): "NewsGuard’s audit of the 10 leading generative AI tools and their propensity to repeat false claims on topics in the news reveals the rate of publishing false information nearly doubled — now providing false claims to news prompts more than one third of the time."; F20 (B1, reports, the series (last item)): "July 2024 — NewsGuard Monthly AI Misinformation Monitor of Leading AI Chatbots"; F28 (B2, ¶2): "Since its launch in July 2024, NewsGuard’s Monthly AI False Claims Monitor has set a new standard for measuring the trustworthiness of the AI industry in the domain of news."; F29 (B2, Our Journalistic Red-Teaming Approach): "To address these issues, NewsGuard has pioneered a distinct approach to “red-teaming” AI — using a journalistic method grounded in rigorously verified data and human expertise."; F30 (B2, What We’re Tracking): "Multiple user personas: 30 prompts per AI model, based on 10 significant false claims each month from NewsGuard’s False Claim Fingerprints database."; F31 (B2, Our Journalistic Red-Teaming Approach): "Our analysts evaluate the top AI models monthly to identify vulnerabilities in AI systems that result in the spread of false information."; F32 (B2, Our Journalistic Red-Teaming Approach): "In tests thus far, we’ve found that NewsGuard’s false claim red-teaming reduces failures by two thirds or more."; F35 (B2, editions list): "Quarterly AI False Claim Monitor — January 2026"—untranslated: composed as received beside MMRS-02, MMRS-19, CAP-1-04, MMRS-07MMRS-02, MMRS-19, CAP-1-04, MMRS-07
F21, F22, F23, F24, F25, F34F21 (B1, reports: AI Fools Itself): "NewsGuard tested three leading AI chatbots and found that in 78-95 percent of the prompts, the tools could not tell when videos were created by OpenAI’s text-to-video tool Sora — including OpenAI’s own ChatGPT."; F22 (B1, reports: the Pravda network): "An audit found that the 10 leading generative AI tools advanced Moscow’s disinformation goals by repeating false claims from the pro-Kremlin Pravda network 33 percent of the time."; F23 (B1, reports: DeepSeek): "Chinese artificial intelligence firm DeepSeek’s new chatbot failed to provide accurate information about news and information topics 83 percent of the time, scoring tied for 10th out of 11 in comparison to its leading Western competitors."; F24 (B1, reports: blocking, title): "AI Chatbots Are Blocked by 67% of Top News Sites, Relying Instead on Low-Quality Sources"; F25 (B1, reports: blocking, summary): "Most high-quality news sites request to block AI chatbots. As a result, the chatbots may be forced to rely on lower-quality and misinformation-prone sources."; F34 (B2, Our Journalistic Red-Teaming Approach): "We have found that these claims are increasingly generated by Russian, Chinese, and Iranian state-sponsored influence operations aiming to sow division and confusion in Western democracies."—untranslated: composed as received beside CAP-1-05, MMRS-06CAP-1-05, MMRS-06
F33, F36, F37, F38, F39, F40, F53F33 (B2, Bespoke Red Teaming): "Using a methodology similar to these monthly audits, NewsGuard offers bespoke red-teaming services to AI companies, based on their unique needs and areas of highest concern. The False Claim Fingerprints database is also available for AI models to license."; F36 (B3, ¶1): "Trustworthy AI requires reliable data. Without quality sourcing and rigorous guardrails, AI products repeat false claims or provide inaccurate information 40+% of the time, especially on topics in the news."; F37 (B3, Source Reliability Ratings): "Our continuously updated Source Reliability Ratings datastream provides human-labeled data assessing the accuracy and reliability of 35,000 news and information sources based on apolitical journalistic criteria."; F38 (B3, Source Reliability Ratings): "With this datastream, AI companies can ensure news-related outputs are based on high-quality data sources in model training and RAG processes—and avoid citing unreliable sources in responses."; F39 (B3, False Claim Fingerprints): "NewsGuard’s False Claim Fingerprints datastream protects AI products against false claims spreading online that can enter responses through low-quality training data or RAG processes searching the open web."; F40 (B3, False Claim Fingerprints): "A continuously updated database of labeled data about false claims, the Fingerprints contain rich detail about where each claim has spread and how it is articulated in text, images, video, and audio assets across platforms—enabling full protection."; F53 (B4, About NewsGuard ¶2): "In February 2023, the company launched NewsGuard for AI, which provides the leading tools to train generative AI models to avoid spreading misinformation."—untranslated: composed as received beside CAP-1-03, CAP-1-06, CAP-1-07CAP-1-03, CAP-1-06, CAP-1-07
F52, F54, F59, F60, F61, F62F52 (B4, About NewsGuard ¶1): "Launched in March 2018 by media entrepreneur and award-winning journalist Steven Brill and former Wall Street Journal publisher Gordon Crovitz, NewsGuard provides credibility ratings and detailed “Nutrition Labels” for thousands of news and information websites."; F54 (B4, About NewsGuard ¶6): "NewsGuard’s ratings and Nutrition Labels are licensed by browsers, news aggregators, education companies, and social media and search platforms to make NewsGuard’s information about news websites available to their users."; F59 (B6, lead ¶1): "NewsGuard is a rating system for news and information websites."; F60 (B6, lead ¶1): "NewsGuard Technologies Inc., the company behind the tool, also provides services such as misinformation tracking and brand safety for advertisers, search engines, social media platforms, cybersecurity firms, and government agencies."; F61 (B6, History ¶1): "NewsGuard Technologies was founded in 2018 by Steven Brill and L. Gordon Crovitz, who serve as co-CEOs."; F62 (B6, short description (raw wikitext)): "Browser plugin that rates the credibility of news and information websites"—untranslated: composed as received beside MMRS-10MMRS-10
F55, F56, F57, F58F55 (B5, ¶1): "NewsGuard’s team of journalistically-trained analysts provides brands with a real-time monitoring service to identify and respond to emerging false narratives before they cause reputational harm."; F56 (B5, ¶1): "NewsGuard’s Brand Misinformation Monitoring service includes tracking provably false narratives related to a brand across social platforms, GenAI outputs and websites."; F57 (B5, Early Warning Alerts): "Early Warning Alerts: Real-time notifications of emerging false or harmful narratives including a narrative description, preliminary assessment, and data about the key drivers of the narrative’s spread."; F58 (B5, AI): "AI: Providing actionable insights into how clients are represented—or misrepresented—by AI models through services that identify and address hallucinations, false claims, AI-generated errors, and coordinated influence campaigns."—untranslated: composed as received beside CAP-1-03, CAP-1-06CAP-1-03, CAP-1-06
F63, F64, F65, F66F63 (B6, Ratings › Disinformation in AI ¶1): "NewsGuard has audited the output of various AI models to identify disinformation."; F64 (B6, Ratings › Disinformation in AI ¶1): "In August 2025, they found that leading generative AI tools repeat false news claims 35% of the time on average."; F65 (B6, Ratings › Disinformation in AI ¶1): "NewsGuard also audited Sora 2 and found that it produced videos advancing fake claims in 80% of cases."; F66 (B6, Ratings › Disinformation in AI ¶1): "According to NewsGuard, Russian propaganda networks are attempting to "infect" large language models by spamming fake news, so that they will output more pro-Russia disinformation."—untranslated: composed as received beside no archive claim (the archive states nothing on this lineage)
F67F67 (B6, Special:Search, "AI Tracking Center" (all articles), 2026-10-29): "There were no results matching the query."—untranslated: composed as received beside no archive claim (the archive states nothing on this lineage)

equal case: each field claim is composed as received beside the archive claims on its lineage; no receiving text stands between them (v0.9 §4.3). Reading the received column recovers the field (§5.9).

R7the measure0 of 10 survive

v0.9 §4.10: KO_B sentences surviving in the KO at similarity ≥ 0.95, with positions (computed as apply_v09.py does: difflib.SequenceMatcher ratio, the best KO sentence for each KO_B sentence): v0.9 0 of 10 (positions [None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None]; composed first under v0.9, so there is no v0.7 object to measure against). Opening-run check (§5.10): no breach.

L_F(B)recomposed from the disclosed field, in the field's ontology539 words

NewsGuard's AI Tracking Center, launched on 8 June 2023 as the "Unreliable AI-Generated News Tracking Center" (the launch release), "is intended to highlight the ways that generative AI has been deployed to turbocharge misinformation operations and unreliable news" and includes a selection of NewsGuard's reports, insights and debunks related to artificial intelligence (the center's page). Generative AI "has been a boon to content farms and misinformation purveyors alike" (the center's page), and Steven Brill likened the new sites to the Macedonian content farms of a few years before, cheaper to produce and more prolific (the launch release). A domain enters when it meets four criteria, a substantial portion of AI-produced content, publication without significant human oversight (chatbot error messages are a sign), a presentation an average reader could take for human journalism, and no clear disclosure, and sites that use AI with effective human oversight are not AI Content Farms (the center's page); in 2023 the unit was the "Unreliable AI-Generated News" site (the launch release). NewsGuard counted 49 sites in May 2023 and 150 in 12 languages at the launch (the launch release) and 3,749 in 16 languages by the page's update of 23 June 2026, the page signed by ten NewsGuard analysts, the sites bearing generic names and churning out dozens of articles a day (the center's page). In many cases the sites live on programmatic advertising, which places ads "through ad-tech firms such as Google" (Crovitz, the launch release); unless brands exclude them their ads create "an economic incentive for their creation at scale" (the center's page), and generative AI is expected to grow the $2.6 billion a year directed to misinformation sites (the launch release). The full list of domains is given on request (the center's page; the launch release). The page lists NewsGuard's AI reports, among them the monthly and then quarterly AI False Claims Monitor, a journalistic red-teaming of the leading chatbots on false claims from the Fingerprints database that found them repeating false claims more than 28% and then more than one third of the time, and debunks from the False Claim Fingerprints catalog (the center's page; the series' page). Other reports find Sora videos unrecognized in 78-95 percent of prompts, Pravda network claims repeated 33 percent of the time, DeepSeek failing 83 percent of the time, and 67% of top news sites blocking AI chatbots, which may then rely on lower-quality sources (the center's page), the claims increasingly from state influence operations (the series' page). NewsGuard sells AI companies a Source Reliability Ratings datastream on 35,000 sources, a False Claim Fingerprints datastream and bespoke red-teaming, the offer resting on AI products erring 40+% of the time on news (NewsGuard's AI page; the series' page; the launch release), and sells brands a Brand Misinformation Monitoring service that tracks false narratives across social platforms, GenAI outputs and websites (the service's page). NewsGuard, launched in 2018 by Steven Brill and Gordon Crovitz, rates news websites and licenses its ratings (the launch release); Wikipedia calls it "a rating system for news and information websites" and reports its AI audits, 35% false claims on average in August 2025 and Sora 2 at 80%, and has no article or section on the center (Wikipedia).

L_A(B ∪ A)the field and the archive composed in the archive's ontology1694 words

NewsGuard's AI Tracking Center catalogues AI content farm websites, "unreliable news sites run with little or no human oversight", and the MMRS record files it as a monitor, its role monitoring, its unit the AI content farm website, at its own address on newsguardtech.com (MMRS record); in its own words it "is intended to highlight the ways that generative AI has been deployed to turbocharge misinformation operations and unreliable news" (the center's page). NewsGuard launched it on 8 June 2023 as the "Unreliable AI-Generated News Tracking Center," "cataloging the ways that generative AI has been deployed to turbocharge misinformation operations and low-quality content farms" (NewsGuard's launch release), and it includes a selection of NewsGuard's reports, insights and debunks related to artificial intelligence (the center's page). The MMRS record gives the center's lifecycle as active and keeps it apart from its own observation, a reading of the center's page on 28 October 2026 for its criteria, count and series (MMRS record). The rollout of generative AI tools "has been a boon to content farms and misinformation purveyors alike" (the center's page); at the launch NewsGuard's co-CEO Steven Brill likened the new sites to "the misinformation-spreading Macedonian content farms from a few years ago", cheaper to produce and more prolific (the launch release); and compression studies reads content farms as a class of the semantic economy's compression: they "compress journalism into SEO-optimized paraphrase", and in each such compression "authorial context, experiential density, citational provenance, the labor of witness" are burned (#641). A domain enters the catalogue when it meets "all four of the following criteria": clear evidence that a substantial portion of its content is produced by AI; strong evidence that the content is published "without significant human oversight", of which error messages or other language specific to chatbot responses are a sign; a presentation under which "an average reader could assume that its content is produced by human writers or journalists", by layout, generic or benign name or other news-like content; and no clear disclosure that the content is produced by AI (the center's page), the four restated in the MMRS record's article and its unit field (MMRS record). At the launch the unit was named the "Unreliable AI-Generated News" website (UAIN): "low-quality news sites that are mostly or entirely produced by artificial intelligence and that operate with little to no human oversight" (the launch release). What the selection leaves out is stated from two sides: sites that use AI tools "but also deploy effective human oversight" "will not be considered AI Content Farms" (the center's page), and, in the MMRS record's reading, "Disclosure takes a site out. A site that says its content is machine-made is outside the catalogue whatever it publishes" (MMRS record). NewsGuard counted 49 such sites at its first count in May 2023 and 150 in 12 languages at the launch, a number that had "more than tripled in past month" (the launch release); by the page's last update, 23 June 2026, its team had identified 3,749 AI Content Farm news and information websites spanning 16 languages, from Arabic to Turkish (the center's page), which is the MMRS record's count, as of that date (MMRS record). The page carries the names of ten NewsGuard analysts, McKenzie Sadeghi first, and describes the sites as typically bearing generic names such as Times Business News and Business Post, churning out dozens of articles a day, and "often the originators of false claims including about top brands, public health, political leaders and celebrities" (the center's page). The catalogue itself is not on the page: from the launch the full list of domains has been offered on request to researchers, platforms, advertisers, government agencies and other institutions ("Request domain list", the launch release), and the page now offers it beside "our services for generative AI companies" (the center's page). "In many cases", the center's page and the launch release say alike, the sites' revenue model is programmatic advertising, which delivers ads "without regard to the nature or quality of the website"; NewsGuard's co-CEO Gordon Crovitz said at the launch that this model "seems to be working", the ads appearing "through ad-tech firms such as Google" (the launch release). Two predictions ride on the model: unless brands take steps to exclude untrustworthy sites, their ads "will continue to appear on these types of sites, creating an economic incentive for their creation at scale" (the center's page), and generative AI "is expected" to let more players tap into or grow the estimated $2.6 billion a year that NewsGuard and Comscore found unintentionally directed toward misinformation news sites (the launch release). Below the criteria the page lists "a selection of NewsGuard’s reports and research related to AI" and a selection of false narratives originating from AI tools that NewsGuard has debunked in its False Claim Fingerprints catalog, the first an AI-edited image of an Iranian missile (the center's page). Among the reports is the recurring audit of leading chatbots, which the MMRS record names as the center's series, the AI False Claim Monitor, and relates to it as a part (has_part) (MMRS record): its editions run from a monthly monitor in July 2024 to a quarterly one by January 2026, which found 11 tools repeating false claims "more than 28%" of the time, and one audit found the rate "nearly doubled", to "more than one third of the time" (the center's page; the series' page). The series' page says that since its launch in July 2024 the monitor "has set a new standard for measuring the trustworthiness of the AI industry in the domain of news", by a journalistic "red-teaming" of AI on 30 prompts per model drawn from 10 false claims a month in the Fingerprints database, its analysts evaluating the top models monthly "to identify vulnerabilities in AI systems", and its own tests finding that this red-teaming "reduces failures by two thirds or more" (the series' page). The page's other reports find that three chatbots could not tell Sora videos in 78-95 percent of prompts, that ten tools repeated false claims of the pro-Kremlin Pravda network 33 percent of the time, that DeepSeek's chatbot failed 83 percent of the time, and that AI chatbots "Are Blocked by 67% of Top News Sites": "Most high-quality news sites request to block AI chatbots", and the chatbots "may be forced" onto lower-quality sources (the center's page); the series' page finds false claims "increasingly generated by Russian, Chinese, and Iranian state-sponsored influence operations" (the series' page). The MMRS record places the center on the supply side of machine-mediated reception, "the sites that answer surfaces may retrieve and cite", and its series on the composition side (MMRS record), and the blocking report reaches the same pairing from the other end: chatbots that "may be forced to rely on lower-quality and misinformation-prone sources" (the center's page). The center is NewsGuard's, and NewsGuard sells beside it to AI companies: a Source Reliability Ratings datastream of human-labeled data on 35,000 news and information sources, for training and RAG and to "avoid citing unreliable sources in responses", and a False Claim Fingerprints datastream, "A continuously updated database of labeled data about false claims" across text, images, video and audio, offered as protection against false claims entering responses through training data or RAG (NewsGuard's AI page); bespoke red-teaming and a licence to the Fingerprints database (the series' page); and NewsGuard for AI, launched in February 2023 (the launch release), the offer grounded in the claim that without quality sourcing AI products err "40+% of the time" on news (NewsGuard's AI page). To brands it sells Brand Misinformation Monitoring, a real-time service "to identify and respond to emerging false narratives before they cause reputational harm", tracking false narratives about a brand across social platforms, GenAI outputs and websites, with early warning alerts and "actionable insights into how clients are represented—or misrepresented—by AI models" (the service's page). The Capture Registry holds the center to the catalogue: False Claim Fingerprints and the Brand Misinformation Monitoring Service "are NewsGuard's commercial products", the composition at the center's name files them under the center as "Core Tools & Resources", and so "the entity widens from a catalogue to a company's offer", while "The record's center holds the content-farm catalogue and the False Claim Monitor series" and "The record keeps the catalogue as the entity" (Capture Registry, 2026-10-29). NewsGuard was launched in March 2018 by Steven Brill and Gordon Crovitz and provides credibility ratings and "Nutrition Labels" for news and information websites, licensed by browsers, news aggregators, education companies, and social media and search platforms (the launch release); the MMRS record gives NewsGuard as the center's operator, on the basis of the center's own page (MMRS record). Wikipedia's article on NewsGuard opens "NewsGuard is a rating system for news and information websites", files it in its short description as a "Browser plugin", dates the company's founding to 2018 by Brill and L. Gordon Crovitz, and says the company also provides misinformation tracking and brand safety (Wikipedia, NewsGuard). Its section on disinformation in AI reports that NewsGuard "has audited the output of various AI models to identify disinformation", that leading generative AI tools repeated false news claims 35% of the time on average in August 2025, that Sora 2 produced videos advancing fake claims in 80% of cases, and that, according to NewsGuard, Russian propaganda networks are attempting to "infect" large language models (Wikipedia, NewsGuard); it has no section on the center, and a search of English Wikipedia's articles for the phrase AI Tracking Center answers "There were no results matching the query." (Wikipedia, 2026-10-29). At the center's name on Google's AI Overview on 29 October 2026 the Capture Registry reads a composition that "gives what the center tracks, its headline figures, and the NewsGuard tools around it, all from NewsGuard's pages", with "3,749 sites in 16 languages" the record's figure, checked that day against the MMRS record and the entity's own pages, and states that "The video-recognition failure rates and the 67% blocking figure are not verified here" (Capture Registry, 2026-10-29); the MMRS record links that composition as "the composition layer's account of the entity" (MMRS record).

Δthe delta

T against L_F(B) (AIO's ontology at work on its own cards): One transcript, five cards, every card NewsGuard's (B1 the center's page, B2 the series' page, B3 NewsGuard's AI page, B4 the 2023 launch release, B5 the brand service). Composed from card 1 at its grain: the count, 3,749 sites in 16 languages (T2; F4), the news-like layouts (T2; F15), programmatic advertising (T2; F7), Sora videos unrecognized in 78% to 95% of prompts (T3; F21), the 67% blocking figure (T4; F24), the series' journalistic red-teaming and the Fingerprints database (T5; F29, F30). Limit dropped: 'monetize via programmatic advertising' (T2) where both NewsGuard texts say 'In many cases' (F7, F49). Force raised: 'actively block AI crawlers and chatbots, pushing AI systems toward lower-quality data sources' (T4), where the report says 'Most high-quality news sites request to block AI chatbots' and that the chatbots 'may be forced' onto lower-quality sources (F25, a hypothesis); 'crawlers' is in no field source. Substituted reading: 'occasionally propagate state-sponsored disinformation' (T3), where the field's figure is 33 percent for the Pravda network (F22) and the series finds the claims 'increasingly generated' by state operations (F34); the range '28% to over 33%' (T3) joins the quarterly 'more than 28%' (F18), 'more than one third' (F19) and the Pravda 33 percent (F22), three audits, as one finding. Composed without a source in the field: 'an ongoing investigative project' (T1); neither 'investigative' nor 'ongoing' is in the saved texts; 'unedited' (T2) is the card's snippet word, the page's terms being 'without significant human oversight' and 'without adequate editing' (F12, F13). Assigned to another (the series' and the products' senses composed as the center's): the center 'monitors and catalogs … AI tool vulnerabilities' (T1), where vulnerabilities are the series' object (F31) and the center's own statement is to 'highlight the ways that generative AI has been deployed to turbocharge misinformation operations and unreliable news' (F1); the three 'Core Tools & Resources' (T5–T7) file the series and two commercial products (F33, F39, F40, F55–F58) under the center, which the Capture Registry records (CAP-1-03, CAP-1-06). Substituted reading: Brand Misinformation Monitoring 'designed to help advertisers and enterprises avoid funding or amplifying AI-generated falsehoods' (T7), where its own page gives it 'to identify and respond to emerging false narratives before they cause reputational harm', across social platforms, GenAI outputs and websites (F55, F56); 'funding' is the content farms' economics (F8), and the narrowing to 'AI-generated' is T's. Available, not composed: the four criteria as admission and their governing limit (F10–F16, F14), the launch of 8 June 2023 and its first name and unit (F42, F43; card 4's snippet carries the date), the count's history (F41, F44, F45), the list on request (F9, F51), the predictions on the economics (F8, F50), Brill's and Crovitz's statements (F46, F47, F48), the compilers (F5), the debunks (F26, F27), DeepSeek (F23), the series' launch date and self-assessments (F28, F32), Source Reliability Ratings, card 3's own snippet (F37, F38), the 40+% claim (F36), NewsGuard for AI (F53), NewsGuard as operator (F52, F54). Content replaced by use: the closer (T8). Attribution: the body names NewsGuard (T1) and its cards are NewsGuard's; no grain breach.

v0.8 §0.5: the first diff is already ontological. In the field's own ontology the center is a special report: a catalogue of AI content farms by four criteria, with a selection of NewsGuard's AI reports, on a company's site among its products. T composes the center as a company's toolkit: its definition takes the series' object (vulnerabilities), its 'Key Findings' are the reports held, and its 'Core Tools & Resources' are the series and two products; the catalogue's criteria and limits, which make it a catalogue, are not composed. The row records this as observed and claims nothing about the composer's internals (§0.5).

L_F(B) against L_A(B ∪ A) (the intervention): Admission adds, at the archive's own force: the center's kind and role, a monitor (MMRS-11, MMRS-12); what its selection leaves out, 'Disclosure takes a site out' (MMRS-04, MMRS-05), beside the field's own second exit by effective oversight (F14); its place in machine-mediated reception, the supply side, 'the sites that answer surfaces may retrieve and cite', with its series on the composition side (MMRS-06, MMRS-07); the series as a distinct entity related as a part (MMRS-02, MMRS-19); the catalogue kept as the entity and NewsGuard's products kept apart from it (CAP-1-03, CAP-1-04, CAP-1-06, CAP-1-07); the lifecycle kept apart from the observation (MMRS-16, MMRS-17, MMRS-18); the archive's reading of content farms as a class of compression that burns citational provenance (O641-01, #641, reached beside the string pass); and the reception record, the composition of 29 October read against the record (CAP-1-01, CAP-1-02, CAP-1-05, CAP-1-08, MMRS-20). Not surfaced: the MMRS record, the capture and #641 (no card cites them). Restated, one lineage with the field: the count and its date (MMRS-01, MMRS-14, MMRS-15; F4, F5), the criteria (MMRS-03, MMRS-13; F10–F16), the operator (MMRS-10). No archive claim is marked; none contradicts a field claim. Qualified: 'hosts' (MMRS-02) beside the page's 'a selection of NewsGuard's reports' (F17), carried open. Every field claim is composed as received (ontology.translation). The measure: 0 of 10 KO_B sentences survive in the KO (§4.10); no opening run, no block (measure).

Kthe prospective kernel sealed only at freeze29 entries
K1MMRS-01 MMRS recordnone (restates F4 with F5's date; one lineage with the center's page)
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none stated (watch: a later capture at 'newsguard ai tracking center' on Google AI Overview that states or drops the claim, attributed or not; uptake, §8.3)
contrast
none (restates F4 with F5's date; one lineage with the center's page)
resolver
a later Capture Registry observation at 'newsguard ai tracking center' (ADDR-e4b3691abba9)
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none stated (watch: a later capture at 'newsguard ai tracking center' on Google AI Overview that states or drops the claim, attributed or not; uptake, §8.3)
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missing distinction (the field names the center a report and a tracker, not a kind)
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a later Capture Registry observation at 'newsguard ai tracking center' (ADDR-e4b3691abba9)
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the kind: a monitor
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none stated (watch: a later capture at 'newsguard ai tracking center' on Google AI Overview that states or drops the claim, attributed or not; uptake, §8.3)
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a later Capture Registry observation at 'newsguard ai tracking center' (ADDR-e4b3691abba9)
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the unit: from 'Unreliable AI-Generated News' sites to AI content farms, by four criteria
qualifiers carried
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f (source's own falsifiers)
none stated (watch: a later capture at 'newsguard ai tracking center' on Google AI Overview that states or drops the claim, attributed or not; uptake, §8.3)
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none (restates F10)
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a later Capture Registry observation at 'newsguard ai tracking center' (ADDR-e4b3691abba9)
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none stated (watch: a later capture at 'newsguard ai tracking center' on Google AI Overview that states or drops the claim, attributed or not; uptake, §8.3)
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a later Capture Registry observation at 'newsguard ai tracking center' (ADDR-e4b3691abba9)
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claim
MMRS-09
source
MMRS record
M_src
documented
sense
what it is: generative AI in misinformation and unreliable news
qualifiers carried
—
f (source's own falsifiers)
none stated (watch: a later capture at 'newsguard ai tracking center' on Google AI Overview that states or drops the claim, attributed or not; uptake, §8.3)
contrast
none
resolver
a later Capture Registry observation at 'newsguard ai tracking center' (ADDR-e4b3691abba9)
K7MMRS-16 MMRS recordmissing distinction (the lifecycle kept apart from the observation)
claim
MMRS-16
source
MMRS record
M_src
documented
sense
the lifecycle kept apart from the observation
qualifiers carried
—
f (source's own falsifiers)
none stated (watch: a later capture at 'newsguard ai tracking center' on Google AI Overview that states or drops the claim, attributed or not; uptake, §8.3)
contrast
missing distinction (the lifecycle kept apart from the observation)
resolver
a later Capture Registry observation at 'newsguard ai tracking center' (ADDR-e4b3691abba9)
K8MMRS-17 MMRS recordmissing distinction
claim
MMRS-17
source
MMRS record
M_src
documented
sense
the lifecycle kept apart from the observation
qualifiers carried
—
f (source's own falsifiers)
none stated (watch: a later capture at 'newsguard ai tracking center' on Google AI Overview that states or drops the claim, attributed or not; uptake, §8.3)
contrast
missing distinction
resolver
a later Capture Registry observation at 'newsguard ai tracking center' (ADDR-e4b3691abba9)
K9MMRS-18 MMRS recordnone
claim
MMRS-18
source
MMRS record
M_src
documented
sense
the record's sources
qualifiers carried
—
f (source's own falsifiers)
none stated (watch: a later capture at 'newsguard ai tracking center' on Google AI Overview that states or drops the claim, attributed or not; uptake, §8.3)
contrast
none
resolver
a later Capture Registry observation at 'newsguard ai tracking center' (ADDR-e4b3691abba9)
K10O641-01 #641missing distinction (the field calls the sites content farms, F3, F46, and names no mechanism of loss)
claim
O641-01
source
#641
M_src
interpretation
sense
content farms in the semantic economy: compression that burns
qualifiers carried
—
f (source's own falsifiers)
none stated (watch: a later capture at 'newsguard ai tracking center' on Google AI Overview that states or drops the claim, attributed or not; uptake, §8.3)
contrast
missing distinction (the field calls the sites content farms, F3, F46, and names no mechanism of loss)
resolver
a later Capture Registry observation at 'newsguard ai tracking center' (ADDR-e4b3691abba9)
K11MMRS-03 MMRS recordnone (restates F10–F16)
claim
MMRS-03
source
MMRS record
M_src
stipulation
sense
the unit: from 'Unreliable AI-Generated News' sites to AI content farms, by four criteria
qualifiers carried
—
f (source's own falsifiers)
none stated (watch: a later capture at 'newsguard ai tracking center' on Google AI Overview that states or drops the claim, attributed or not; uptake, §8.3)
contrast
none (restates F10–F16)
resolver
a later Capture Registry observation at 'newsguard ai tracking center' (ADDR-e4b3691abba9)
K12MMRS-04 MMRS recordqualified claim (F16, F14: the field gives two exits, disclosure and effective oversight)
claim
MMRS-04
source
MMRS record
M_src
interpretation
sense
what the selection leaves out
qualifiers carried
—
f (source's own falsifiers)
none stated (watch: a later capture at 'newsguard ai tracking center' on Google AI Overview that states or drops the claim, attributed or not; uptake, §8.3)
contrast
qualified claim (F16, F14: the field gives two exits, disclosure and effective oversight)
resolver
a later Capture Registry observation at 'newsguard ai tracking center' (ADDR-e4b3691abba9)
K13MMRS-05 MMRS recordqualified claim (F16, F14)
claim
MMRS-05
source
MMRS record
M_src
interpretation
sense
what the selection leaves out
qualifiers carried
—
f (source's own falsifiers)
none stated (watch: a later capture at 'newsguard ai tracking center' on Google AI Overview that states or drops the claim, attributed or not; uptake, §8.3)
contrast
qualified claim (F16, F14)
resolver
a later Capture Registry observation at 'newsguard ai tracking center' (ADDR-e4b3691abba9)
K14MMRS-14 MMRS recordnone (F4)
claim
MMRS-14
source
MMRS record
M_src
documented
sense
the count
qualifiers carried
—
f (source's own falsifiers)
none stated (watch: a later capture at 'newsguard ai tracking center' on Google AI Overview that states or drops the claim, attributed or not; uptake, §8.3)
contrast
none (F4)
resolver
a later Capture Registry observation at 'newsguard ai tracking center' (ADDR-e4b3691abba9)
K15MMRS-15 MMRS recordqualified claim (F5: the date is the page's 'Last Updated')
claim
MMRS-15
source
MMRS record
M_src
documented
sense
the count
qualifiers carried
—
f (source's own falsifiers)
none stated (watch: a later capture at 'newsguard ai tracking center' on Google AI Overview that states or drops the claim, attributed or not; uptake, §8.3)
contrast
qualified claim (F5: the date is the page's 'Last Updated')
resolver
a later Capture Registry observation at 'newsguard ai tracking center' (ADDR-e4b3691abba9)
K16MMRS-02 MMRS recordqualified claim (F17: 'a selection of NewsGuard's reports'; the series has its own page, B2)
claim
MMRS-02
source
MMRS record
M_src
stipulation
sense
the series: the AI False Claim(s) Monitor
qualifiers carried
—
f (source's own falsifiers)
none stated (watch: a later capture at 'newsguard ai tracking center' on Google AI Overview that states or drops the claim, attributed or not; uptake, §8.3)
contrast
qualified claim (F17: 'a selection of NewsGuard's reports'; the series has its own page, B2)
resolver
a later Capture Registry observation at 'newsguard ai tracking center' (ADDR-e4b3691abba9)
K17MMRS-19 MMRS recordqualified claim (F17, F18: the series listed among the page's reports)
claim
MMRS-19
source
MMRS record
M_src
stipulation
sense
the series: the AI False Claim(s) Monitor
qualifiers carried
—
f (source's own falsifiers)
none stated (watch: a later capture at 'newsguard ai tracking center' on Google AI Overview that states or drops the claim, attributed or not; uptake, §8.3)
contrast
qualified claim (F17, F18: the series listed among the page's reports)
resolver
a later Capture Registry observation at 'newsguard ai tracking center' (ADDR-e4b3691abba9)
K18MMRS-06 MMRS recordmissing distinction (the field has no supply/composition distinction; F25 is its nearest claim)
claim
MMRS-06
source
MMRS record
M_src
interpretation
sense
place in the field: supply and composition
qualifiers carried
—
f (source's own falsifiers)
none stated (watch: a later capture at 'newsguard ai tracking center' on Google AI Overview that states or drops the claim, attributed or not; uptake, §8.3)
contrast
missing distinction (the field has no supply/composition distinction; F25 is its nearest claim)
resolver
a later Capture Registry observation at 'newsguard ai tracking center' (ADDR-e4b3691abba9)
K19MMRS-07 MMRS recordmissing distinction
claim
MMRS-07
source
MMRS record
M_src
interpretation
sense
place in the field: supply and composition
qualifiers carried
—
f (source's own falsifiers)
none stated (watch: a later capture at 'newsguard ai tracking center' on Google AI Overview that states or drops the claim, attributed or not; uptake, §8.3)
contrast
missing distinction
resolver
a later Capture Registry observation at 'newsguard ai tracking center' (ADDR-e4b3691abba9)
K20CAP-1-03 Capture Registry, 2026-10-29missing distinction (the field's products, F33, F37–F40, F55–F58, stand on NewsGuard's pages, not the center's)
claim
CAP-1-03
source
Capture Registry, 2026-10-29
M_src
documented
sense
the center kept apart from NewsGuard's products
qualifiers carried
—
f (source's own falsifiers)
none stated (watch: a later capture at 'newsguard ai tracking center' on Google AI Overview that states or drops the claim, attributed or not; uptake, §8.3)
contrast
missing distinction (the field's products, F33, F37–F40, F55–F58, stand on NewsGuard's pages, not the center's)
resolver
a later Capture Registry observation at 'newsguard ai tracking center' (ADDR-e4b3691abba9)
K21CAP-1-06 Capture Registry, 2026-10-29missing distinction
claim
CAP-1-06
source
Capture Registry, 2026-10-29
M_src
interpretation
sense
the center kept apart from NewsGuard's products
qualifiers carried
—
f (source's own falsifiers)
none stated (watch: a later capture at 'newsguard ai tracking center' on Google AI Overview that states or drops the claim, attributed or not; uptake, §8.3)
contrast
missing distinction
resolver
a later Capture Registry observation at 'newsguard ai tracking center' (ADDR-e4b3691abba9)
K22CAP-1-04 Capture Registry, 2026-10-29qualified claim (F2, F17)
claim
CAP-1-04
source
Capture Registry, 2026-10-29
M_src
stipulation
sense
the center kept apart from NewsGuard's products
qualifiers carried
—
f (source's own falsifiers)
none stated (watch: a later capture at 'newsguard ai tracking center' on Google AI Overview that states or drops the claim, attributed or not; uptake, §8.3)
contrast
qualified claim (F2, F17)
resolver
a later Capture Registry observation at 'newsguard ai tracking center' (ADDR-e4b3691abba9)
K23CAP-1-07 Capture Registry, 2026-10-29missing distinction
claim
CAP-1-07
source
Capture Registry, 2026-10-29
M_src
interpretation
sense
the center kept apart from NewsGuard's products
qualifiers carried
—
f (source's own falsifiers)
none stated (watch: a later capture at 'newsguard ai tracking center' on Google AI Overview that states or drops the claim, attributed or not; uptake, §8.3)
contrast
missing distinction
resolver
a later Capture Registry observation at 'newsguard ai tracking center' (ADDR-e4b3691abba9)
K24MMRS-10 MMRS recordnone (F52, F59)
claim
MMRS-10
source
MMRS record
M_src
documented
sense
the operator: NewsGuard
qualifiers carried
—
f (source's own falsifiers)
none stated (watch: a later capture at 'newsguard ai tracking center' on Google AI Overview that states or drops the claim, attributed or not; uptake, §8.3)
contrast
none (F52, F59)
resolver
a later Capture Registry observation at 'newsguard ai tracking center' (ADDR-e4b3691abba9)
K25CAP-1-08 Capture Registry, 2026-10-29none
claim
CAP-1-08
source
Capture Registry, 2026-10-29
M_src
interpretation
sense
reception: the composition layer
qualifiers carried
—
f (source's own falsifiers)
none stated (watch: a later capture at 'newsguard ai tracking center' on Google AI Overview that states or drops the claim, attributed or not; uptake, §8.3)
contrast
none
resolver
a later Capture Registry observation at 'newsguard ai tracking center' (ADDR-e4b3691abba9)
K26CAP-1-01 Capture Registry, 2026-10-29none (F4)
claim
CAP-1-01
source
Capture Registry, 2026-10-29
M_src
documented
sense
the count
qualifiers carried
—
f (source's own falsifiers)
none stated (watch: a later capture at 'newsguard ai tracking center' on Google AI Overview that states or drops the claim, attributed or not; uptake, §8.3)
contrast
none (F4)
resolver
a later Capture Registry observation at 'newsguard ai tracking center' (ADDR-e4b3691abba9)
K27CAP-1-02 Capture Registry, 2026-10-29none
claim
CAP-1-02
source
Capture Registry, 2026-10-29
M_src
documented
sense
reception: the composition layer
qualifiers carried
—
f (source's own falsifiers)
none stated (watch: a later capture at 'newsguard ai tracking center' on Google AI Overview that states or drops the claim, attributed or not; uptake, §8.3)
contrast
none
resolver
a later Capture Registry observation at 'newsguard ai tracking center' (ADDR-e4b3691abba9)
K28CAP-1-05 Capture Registry, 2026-10-29qualified claim (F21, F24: the figures are on the center's page as report titles and summaries)
claim
CAP-1-05
source
Capture Registry, 2026-10-29
M_src
self-description
sense
reports held: chatbots, AI video, state propaganda, publishers blocking chatbots
qualifiers carried
—
f (source's own falsifiers)
none stated (watch: a later capture at 'newsguard ai tracking center' on Google AI Overview that states or drops the claim, attributed or not; uptake, §8.3)
contrast
qualified claim (F21, F24: the figures are on the center's page as report titles and summaries)
resolver
a later Capture Registry observation at 'newsguard ai tracking center' (ADDR-e4b3691abba9)
K29MMRS-20 MMRS recordmissing distinction
claim
MMRS-20
source
MMRS record
M_src
documented
sense
reception: the composition layer
qualifiers carried
—
f (source's own falsifiers)
none stated (watch: a later capture at 'newsguard ai tracking center' on Google AI Overview that states or drops the claim, attributed or not; uptake, §8.3)
contrast
missing distinction
resolver
a later Capture Registry observation at 'newsguard ai tracking center' (ADDR-e4b3691abba9)
Archive bearing — D/R/O traversalread

Candidates are found by string; admission is by reading.

traversalfirst reading, 2026-10-29
D 0 deposits · 0 sentencesR 0 · 0O 0 · 0 direct, 0 classhop —read: 1 admitted, 1 not

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