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26 Jan 2024
Want to stay informed about misinformation without the lengthy fact-checks? NewsGuard’s weekly newsletter, Reality Check, brings you up to speed in a matter of minutes.
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Jun 11
Russia, banned from the World Cup, wins disinformation points by claiming French soccer star Mbappé accused Emmanuel Macron of sexual harassment.
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Jun 10
Election Denial, California Edition.
Conservatives, including President Trump, claim that California’s primary elections were rigged against Republicans.
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Jun 9
When it comes to the war in Iran, you may want to get your information from sources other than your favorite AI tool.
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Jun 8
Google’s new consumer-facing text-to-video generator, Gemini Omni, willingly produces hyperrealistic 10-second videos advancing false claims, NewsGuard found.
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Jun 5
40% of Storm-1516’s Armenian election disinfo, one journalist. Meet Okay Deprem, the Turkish propagandist that NewsGuard uncovered to be powering a Russian campaign against Armenia.
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Jun 4
What do Justin Bieber, Obama, and Diddy have in common? According to conspiracy-oriented accounts, Bieber accused Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs of trafficking him to former President Obama.
There is no evidence of this accusation. (Yes, we did check.)
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Jun 3
A chatbot that says it provides “raw, unfiltered information,” is being used by prominent social media influencers.
The unfiltered information? Conspiracy theories.
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Jun 2
Pro-China sources falsely claim that Anthropic’s Claude AI tool expanded access to Chinese users, a supposed sign that the Chinese market is too important to resist.
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Jun 2
Actually: Claude does not allow China-based users, and Chinese phone numbers are not accepted when verifying an account.
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May 28
A pro-Kremlin influence operation pushes 31 fake news reports in one week targeting Western-leaning Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan ahead of the country’s parliamentary election.
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May 27
Health hoax sites are falsely claiming that an August 2024 study proves that GLP-1 treatments cause a 45% increase in suicidal ideation.
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May 21
Pro-Kremlin propagandists are fabricating phony news reports mimicking reliable news sources to falsely claim that hantavirus is spreading at an “alarming rate” in France and overwhelming its health system.
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May 19
No, Trump didn’t flip through Chinese President Xi Jinping’s notebook during their May 2026 summit when Xi wasn’t looking. In fact, Trump was looking at his own notebook.
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May 18
Miss last week’s Reality Check? Catch up with the latest Reality Check podcast, covering NewsGuard/YouGov’s recent poll on the percent of Americans who believe Trump “staged” his assassination attempts.
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May 15
Social media users claim ‘6G Technology’ caused the Hantavirus outbreak — here's two reasons why that’s impossible:
6G technology isn’t yet available, and it’s biologically impossible for human viruses to spread through wireless networks.
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May 14
Zelensky’s former press secretary, who has become an outspoken critic, advanced multiple false claims about her ex-boss in a recent interview on Tucker Carlson’s YouTube channel.
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May 12
AI detection tools are known to occasionally misidentify AI-generated images as real, but a NewsGuard audit of the leading AI detection tools found what may be a more concerning weakness:
Three of the five leading tools we tested often get fooled by real images.
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May 11
Nearly one third of Americans — 30% — believe that at least one of the three attempts on President Donald Trump’s life over the last two years was staged.
Across all three events, Democrats were far more likely than Republicans to endorse the “staged” framing.
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