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Re:A third of Perplexity's citations don't contain the numbe... by breakpointalpha on Wednesday September 02, 2026 @02:41PM (#49540544)
This article appears to be a coordinated attack on Perplexity.

Also posted today is this HN thread:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49536375

Containing this link:

https://trellner.com/reports/manufactured-sources-behind-ai-...

Which has the exact same layout and very similar About page as "trellner.com"

https://hausresearch.com/about/

https://trellner.com/about/

Re:A third of Perplexity's citations don't contain the numbe... by hex4def6 on Wednesday September 02, 2026 @03:03PM (#49540841)
Agree.

>>Both URLs were registered yesterday!<<

The "Leadership" photos all look the same, with the AI-airbrushed style. Also amazing how they both only have three people. What a coincidence.

I can't find any of the supposed "Leadership" team on Linkedin. Some of them have unusual names, which cut through the hundreds / thousands of results.

It's a worrying how easily this sort of BS is becoming. It takes far more time to debunk it then to create it. Now you could basically script this and have 100 pages by this time tomorrow, with different styles and URLs and leadership teams (along with professional portraits)...

If they'd let the URLs age a bit, and maybe not registered them on the same day, used slightly more common names, and changed the styles, it would have been much harder to definitively debunk.

Re:A third of Perplexity's citations don't contain the numbe... by tecleandor on Wednesday September 02, 2026 @05:49PM (#49543035)
The user that posted this hasn't commented in HN since more than two years ago. Their previous submissions had nothing to do with this (and they were mostly posts from their blog).

Smells like the user has been hacked.

Re:A third of Perplexity's citations don't contain the numbe... by burningChrome on Wednesday September 02, 2026 @02:55PM (#49540728)
Is it just me or am I seeing more and more of this stuff happening on HN?
Re:A third of Perplexity's citations don't contain the numbe... by sarkarghya on Wednesday September 02, 2026 @02:58PM (#49540778)
i am actually curious how they get upvoted though? Are the bots really out of control