The conversation about AI misinformation has reached a structural turning point that the technical debate has been slower to name than the people experiencing it. When the tool you use to check whether a story is fabricated draws from the same data ecosystem that produced the fabrication, the verification step does not reduce error — it redistributes it with added authority. A Bluesky user identified this precisely: 'AI issues aren't just the fake news but also using AI to ask if the story is fake results in false results' .…