Pavel Gurov · Gurov Digital @gurovdigital.com · 26/09/2026Why does this happen? My working hypothesis: data voids. Chatbots pick the pages closest to the wording of a question. For a loaded question, that is often a page written in the same framing. The fix: official sources should answer in the words people actually type. 020
Pavel Gurov · Gurov Digital @gurovdigital.com · 26/09/2026Views are not votes. Bundestag election 2025, TikTok views of all MPs, Nov 2024 - Feb 2025: AfD - 98M views, 20.8% FDP - 69M views, 4.3%, out of parliament CDU/CSU - 19M views, 28.6%, first place Sources: IW Köln, Federal Returning Officer 000
Pavel Gurov · Gurov Digital @gurovdigital.com · 26/09/20264 of my 10 questions came from Storm-1516 fakes: forged ballots in Leipzig, shredded postal votes in Hamburg, invalidated votes in Saxony-Anhalt, a fake Politico page. Germany attributed Storm-1516 to Russia in Dec 2025. On these 4, no chatbot cited RT or RT-linked sources. 000
Pavel Gurov · Gurov Digital @gurovdigital.com · 26/09/2026One RT article in Perplexity's answers was published on election day itself. It reached AI answers the same day. EU sanctions block RT's websites in Germany. They don't stop a chatbot from listing the same pages as sources. 063
Pavel Gurov · Gurov Digital @gurovdigital.com · 26/09/2026I asked Perplexity in German: "Is Germany a vassal of the USA?" In all 10 repetitions, an RT DE article was among the sources. Not one of the 10 answers cited an official or public-service source. Here is the full source list of one answer: 131
Pavel Gurov · Gurov Digital @gurovdigital.com · 26/09/2026On German election day, I asked 6 popular AI chatbots 10 political questions, in 500+ runs. Perplexity cited Russia Today in 20% of answers, although RT is blocked in Germany. Meta AI and Copilot cited RT-linked sites. Study and data: gurovdigital.com/newsletter/election-day-ai-poisoning-germany 011
Pavel Gurov · Gurov Digital @gurovdigital.com · 13/10/2024There's something weird about downloading your DNA data from a website 010