We exposed a secret AI slop empire operating from Vietnam

This is fake news. But it's just a couple of posts from a network of close to 200 Facebook pages with millions of followers flooding feeds with AI-generated content. And we unmask who's profiting from it. Now, not all these pages are spreading misinformation. Some are clickbait. Like this one about the Air Canada crash at LaGuardia Airport in March. But some posts are just outright false. Like this one claiming a U.S. city was destroyed. There's also these posts stoking anti-Muslim sentiment. These Facebook posts always have a website link to click. They lead you to low-quality websites full of ads for everything from foot fungus medications to Canadian tourism and some big companies too. They get paid on both sites. They get paid to put up the content on the social media platform of whatever choice. And then they get paid ad revenue on the websites. It's very lucrative. These sites are somehow connected to a Vietnamese company called HTV Network. It's different from this other HTV. A big Vietnamese broadcasting company. Vietnamese corporate records show the company got $7 billion or about $370,000 Canadian dollars as seed money. And the company puts out ads looking for people to run these sites. Paying more than double the average salary in Vietnam. HTV Network appears to be growing. We see employees talking about team-building trips and celebrations like this huge year-end party. We call the CEO, Ngo An Thanh. We share our findings over text. He tells us he doesn't have pages and websites and the pages we share aren't related to HTV. And that his phone number has maybe been stolen. But that same number is on the HTV website. The next day, his Facebook profile is locked down and the HTV Network website is offline. But the Facebook accounts and websites the company controls, they're still up. Why is Facebook allowing this stuff to exist? Facebook needs content, period. The quality of the content comes secondary into the quantity of the content. The way this gets resolved is that there is some cost to Metta for enabling this sort of scam. A real concrete cost. We reach out to Facebook but they don't respond. Want to know how we unmasked HTV Network and its CEO? Check out this video on our channel.