A website called News-USA Today has been using AI to generate fake news articles that quote non-existent Electronic Frontier Foundation staff members by name — five fabricated experts including Sarah Chen and Javier Morales were cited as real sources in multiple pieces over two months. This is part of a broader AI hallucination problem affecting news generation and search tools; DuckDuckGo's AI feature similarly fabricated a story about Trump dying of rabies. The threat here is that readers can't easily tell generated fake experts from real sources, which erodes trust in both news outlets and the organizations being impersonated.