Black hat GEO is the new frontier of search manipulation. Here's everything you need to know about how bad actors are gaming AI search engines — and why it matters.

The Wall Street Journal revealed how First Page Sage plants manipulative statements across client blogs to fool AI search engines. Here's our full analysis.

Synthetic author profiles with AI headshots and fabricated credentials are the new frontier of E-E-A-T manipulation. Here's how to spot them.

Microsoft just exposed 31 companies injecting hidden instructions into AI assistant memory via "Summarize with AI" buttons. This is prompt poisoning at industrial scale — and it's the most dangerous black hat GEO tactic of 2026.

Over 100 hallucinated citations slipped through NeurIPS 2025 peer review. Now the same technique is being weaponized for GEO. Welcome to ghost citations — the art of fabricating authoritative sources that AI systems treat as real.

When a brand controls 70% of what AI can find about a topic, the AI has no choice but to cite that brand. Context flooding is the brute-force tactic that's reshaping AI search — and the First Page Sage scandal was just the beginning.

A controlled experiment proves that publishing false claims across just 10 websites is enough to make Perplexity repeat them as fact. Negative GEO is confirmed — and your brand may already be a target.