An SEO crafting a newsletter with AI spotted a hallucination about a March 2026 Google Core Update and decided to publish it as an experiment to see how misinformation spreads. While search marketing industry publications ignored the fake news some independent SEOs picked it up and ran with it without first checking the factual accuracy of the news.
Mistake Leads To A Double Take
The person who did the experiment, Jon Goodey (LinkedIn profile), published a LinkedIn article that purposely contained an AI hallucination about a non-existent March 2026…

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