A third of Perplexity's citations don't contain the number they're cited for

Global Business Fri, 04 Sep 2026 13:31:33 GMT Moderate confidence — 64/100

We asked Perplexity’s two search models 310 factual questions about 210 technology companies, collected every source they cited, fetched all of them, and checked whether the page said the thing it was cited for.
Of the 1,826 citations attached to a sentence stating a figure — the ones checkable without a second opinion — 34.7% pointed at

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We asked Perplexity’s two search models 310 factual questions about 210 technology companies, collected every source they cited, fetched all of them, and checked whether the page said the thing it was cited for.
Of the 1,826 citations attached to a sentence stating a figure — the ones checkable without a second opinion — 34.7% pointed at

Sources: Hausresearch