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Analysis: popular chatbots debunked false narratives spread by Russia, China, and Iran most of the time; search engine AI summaries did too, but at a lower rate

Since AI chatbots exploded in popularity and Google started offering AI-generated answers, people who research foreign influence campaigns …

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