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The Illusion of Authority: How Ghost Networks Manipulate AI Citations

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The Ghost in the Machine: Analyzing AI Citation Hijacking For any modern developer, the transition from traditional search engines to AI-driven answer engines like Perplexity or ChatGPT has felt like a massive quality-of-life upgrade. We trade the endless clicking of links for concise, summarized i…

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  1. 2026-09-16 17:33 · DEV Community — AI
    The Illusion of Authority: How Ghost Networks Manipulate AI Citations

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