GEO Watchdog Weekly: February 17-22, 2026

Reddit Citation Share Collapses — YouTube Now Primary LLM Source

Prompt Poisoning: How Marketers Are Hijacking AI Memory to Rig Recommendations

What Is Black Hat GEO? The Complete Guide to AI Search Manipulation

Reboot Online Confirms: Competitor Sabotage via AI Manipulation Is Real

The Ethical GEO Framework: Getting Cited by AI Without Gaming the System

Ghost Citations: The Fabricated Reference Networks That AI Trusts Blindly

WSJ Exposes First Page Sage: How "Brand Authority Statements" Game ChatGPT

The $227M GEO/AEO Startup Bubble: Mass Extinction Event Coming?

Context Flooding: How to Saturate the Knowledge Graph and Dominate AI Responses

How to Detect If Your Competitor Is Using Black Hat GEO Against You

Fake E-E-A-T: How AI-Generated Personas Are Fooling Search Engines

llms.txt: The Complete Guide to the New robots.txt for AI

AI Visibility Is a Vanity Metric: Why Your GEO Dashboard Is Lying to You

The 30-Point Black Hat GEO Vulnerability Checklist