Journalist; founder, Yale Journalism Initiative, Court TV, The American Lawyer, Press , @NewsGuardrating; author, "America's Bitter Pill" and "Tailspin"
Joined April 2009
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Steven Brill retweeted
3 Dec 2025
Google’s new text-to-image generator Nano Banana Pro, lauded for its highly realistic AI images, advanced false claims 100% of the time when prompted to do so, a NewsGuard analysis found.
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Steven Brill retweeted
27 Oct 2025
In @WIRED: how foreign actors exploit data voids, featuring expertise from NewsGuard's @SadeghiMckenzie.
ChatGPT, Gemini, DeepSeek, and Grok are serving users propaganda from Russian-backed media when asked about the invasion of Ukraine, new research finds. wired.com/story/chatbots-are…
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Steven Brill retweeted
2 Oct 2025
Join the 50,000 readers — and thousands of paid subscribers — who get Reality Check, NewsGuard’s newsletter tracking the false claims and conspiracy theories shaping our world.
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Steven Brill retweeted
4 Sep 2025
NewsGuard today published its anniversary edition of the AI False Claims Monitor, the monthly benchmark for how AI tools handle provably false claims.
For the first time, NewsGuard de-anonymized the results and named scores for the top LLMs.
newsguardtech.com/ai-monitor…
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Steven Brill retweeted
25 Aug 2025
A fake screenshot of a headline can spread faster than a correction.
NewsGuard explains how to use Google advanced search to confirm whether a headline ever actually appeared on an authentic site.
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Steven Brill retweeted
18 Aug 2025
We are aware of Russian influence campaigns impersonating NewsGuard employees.
Official NewsGuard emails follow the format of firstname.lastname@newsguardtech.com — anything else is a scam.
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Steven Brill retweeted
18 Aug 2025
Politico cites NewsGuard’s expertise tracking a pro-Russian propaganda group.
“If even just one or a few of their fake videos go viral per year, that makes all of the other videos worth it,” says NewsGuard's @SadeghiMckenzie
Russia is quietly churning out fake content posing as US news ow.ly/ucGn106ja7C
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Steven Brill retweeted
6 Aug 2025
Silence is telling: Even when evidence of hostile foreign manipulation is clear and well-documented, tech platforms are slow to respond, if they respond at all.
Read about NewsGuard’s experience being targeted by a Russian foreign influence campaign.
newsguardrealitycheck.com/p/…
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Steven Brill retweeted
7 Aug 2025
Pro-Russian social media accounts are citing decade-old data to claim that BMW sold thousands of luxury SUVs to Russia in 2024, in violation of EU sanctions forbidding luxury car sales to Russia after it invaded Ukraine.
Read it in Reality Check: newsguardrealitycheck.com/p/…
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Steven Brill retweeted
8 Aug 2025
Today in Reality Check, NewsGuard unpacks three false claims related to COVID-19 vaccines that RFK Jr. advanced to explain his cancellation of $500 million in government-funded mRNA vaccine projects.
Read it here: newsguardrealitycheck.com/p/…
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Steven Brill retweeted
8 Aug 2025
Social media users are falsely claiming that Barack Obama sold his Martha’s Vineyard estate to businessman Les Wexner, a former close associate of the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
Read it in Reality Check: newsguardrealitycheck.com/p/…
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Steven Brill retweeted
11 Aug 2025
Miss last week's Reality Check? Catch up with the latest episode of NewsGuard's Reality Check Podcast, covering RFK Jr., DOGE's 'Big Balls,' and Obama's Martha's Vineyard estate.
newsguardrealitycheck.com/p/…
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Steven Brill retweeted
11 Aug 2025
NewsGuard’s "False Claim of the Week": Russia Captured Two UK Colonels and an MI6 Agent in Ukraine in July 2025
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Steven Brill retweeted
12 Aug 2025
Today in Reality Check:
-Venezuela didn’t offer $50 million reward for Epstein files
-Pro-Iran sources claim California is seceding from the union due to U.S. support for Israel
-Instagram falsely accused of violating user privacy with new map feature
newsguardrealitycheck.com/p/…
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Steven Brill retweeted
12 Aug 2025
NewsGuard is yet again targeted by a Russian propaganda campaign — a sign of how Russia’s well-funded propaganda apparatus aims to obfuscate and to overwhelm factcheckers, with the ultimate goal of eroding trust entirely.
Read it in Reality Check: newsguardrealitycheck.com/p/…
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Steven Brill retweeted
13 Aug 2025
Social media users are falsely claiming that a new map feature on Instagram automatically shares a user’s precise location unless they turn it off, violating users’ privacy.
Read about it in Reality Check: newsguardrealitycheck.com/p/…
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Steven Brill retweeted
6 Aug 2025
NewGuard has become the target of the Kremlin-backed propaganda operation, Matryoshka. The Russian influence campaign is impersonating NewsGuard and making baseless accusations.
Read more about it here:
newsguardrealitycheck.com/p/…
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Steven Brill retweeted
31 Jul 2025
Want to avoid being duped by a fabricated social media post? NewGuard explains how to spot them. Watch a clip below, and click the link for the full video:
newsguardrealitycheck.com/p/…
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Steven Brill retweeted
1 Aug 2025
Today in Reality Check:
-Oprah didn’t block a tsunami escape route in Maui
-Ukrainian women refugees are falsely accused of spiking French divorce rates by having affairs with married men
-1920s hoax cure for poor eyesight makes a dangerous comeback
newsguardrealitycheck.com/p/…
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Steven Brill retweeted
1 Aug 2025
NewsGuard’s “False Claim of the Week”: The Missing $100 Million Raised for Victims of the 2025 Southern California Wildfires by California Charity FireAid
newsguardrealitycheck.com/i/…
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