How Google and AI Nearly Made a Seasoned Reporter Spiral

This is a small story with a big implication, that the barrier to laundering a fake company into apparent legitimacy is now a cheap website builder plus an AI summary tool that does not distinguish a real filing from a fabricated one. A professional investigative reporter nearly got fooled, which says something uncomfortable about what happens to everyone else doing casual due diligence. The fix is not obvious either, since the fake site did not do anything technically wrong, it just existed and got indexed.