Vietnamese firm targets Canadians with fake AI news for profit, CBC/Radio-Canada investigation reveals

The CEO, Ngo Anh Tan, had reason to celebrate that night. Since launching as an "international media company" that connects the "world with authoritative journalism" almost two years earlier, HTV now had at least 100 employees, according to a Vietnamese job listing.

But what the company purports to do contrasts vastly with its true nature, an investigation by CBC’s visual investigations unit and Radio-Canada’s Décrypteurs discovered.

Exposing a Vietnamese AI fake news empire targeting Canadians