In January, President Donald Trump posted two clips from a popular YouTube account sharing some dramatic news: Walmart was closing hundreds of California stores. @MeganWright62, the YouTube channel that posted the claim, was mostly populated by sensational AI-generated videos that purported to show various companies leaving California, grocery stores running out of food, and school teachers quitting en masse. The account was one of hundreds that the governor’s team has been pushing to get taken down in recent months as it focuses increasingly on AI-generated spam content in its media monitoring mix. Many of those accounts were populated with AI-generated content with what Newsom’s team said was false or highly misleading information about Newsom and California’s decline. “Unless there is a significant systemic change from all platforms, this issue will continue and is likely going to get worse,” Richards said.