You have to read a long way into this Axios piece on the rise of "partisan-backed outlets designed to look like impartial news outlets" to learn what should have been shouted right at the top: The overwhelming majority of these "pink slime" sites are engineered by right-wingers.
With that context firmly in your mind, do read it.
https://www.axios.com/2024/06/11/partisan-news-websites-dark-money