A third of Perplexity's citations don't contain the number they're cited for
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September 2, 2026
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Summary
A third of Perplexity's citations don't contain the number they're cited for Of 1,826 citations Perplexity's search models attached to a sentence stating a figure, 34.7% pointed at a page that either would not open or did not contain a single figure from that sentence; scored per claim rather than per citation, 14.4% of 872 claims fail. We asked Perplexity’s two search models 310 factual questions...