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“Biden is Dead” Hoax Lives On

PLUS: NewsGuard Tracks 1,000th Site Using AI to Make Up “News”; BlackRock and Vanguard Wrongly Implicated in the Trump Shooting

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Reality Check Commentary: News Media's 1.28% Crisis

NewsGuard Co-CEO Gordon Crovitz writes that advertisers can be democracy’s heroes by restoring badly needed ad revenue to trustworthy news publishers

Jul 23

Faked Signature for Biden’s Withdrawal Letter? No.

PLUS: Harris “Birther” Claims Get New Life; Russian State Media Call Biden Exit a “Coup”

Jul 22

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Was Trump Shooting Staged or Biden’s Doing?

Jul 15

Welcome to NewsGuard's "Reality Check"

Jan 19

Unmasking the Taylor Swift ‘Psyop Plot’

Feb 2

Sad Milestone: Fake Local News Sites Now Outnumber Real Local Newspaper Sites in U.S.

Jun 11

Facebook Fails to Shake Off Taylor Swift AI Fake

Jan 26

Reality Check Commentary: Tucker Carlson Sits By as Putin Claims Poland Started WWII

Feb 14

Trump Shooting Sparks "BlueAnon" — Left-wing QAnon

PLUS: False Claims J.D. Vance “Harvested” Blood of Young

Jul 19

AI Chatbots Fail on the Trump Assassination Attempt Story

Welcome to NewsGuard's Reality Check, a report on how misinformation online is undermining trust — and who’s behind it.

Jul 17

Was Trump Shooting Staged or Biden’s Doing?

PLUS: Russian Disinformation Network Expands with Pig Head Hoax; Big Brands Advertise on Election Hoax Site

Jul 15

Exposing TikTok’s AI-Generated Misinformation

PLUS: The Source of a Viral False Claim that Biden had a Medical Emergency on Air Force One

Jul 12

Reality Check Commentary: No News Is Bad News: Some AI Models Are Trained to Avoid News

NewsGuard Co-CEO Gordon Crovitz highlights new benchmark report showing that many AI models refuse to respond to topics in the news

Jul 10

French Election: Surprise Results, Familiar False Claims

PLUS: QAnon Surges Before U.K. Election; “Swingers” Adult Book Mistaken for Children’s Story

Jul 8

Reality Check Commentary: From Macedonian Teenagers to Multibillion-Dollar AI Models: Professionalizing Election Misinformation

NewsGuard Co-CEO Gordon Crovitz notes that tools to create believable fake claims have advanced dramatically since the 2016 election

Jul 3

Rumble Crashes, Conspiracies Fly

PLUS: Google is Not Censoring the Russian Ruble; Quiz: Can You Tell Real from Fake?

Jul 1

X’s AI Superspread Presidential Debate Misinformation

PLUS: Foreign State Media Flip Flops on Debate; Kremlin’s Olympics Disinformation Games

Jun 28

NewsGuard's Reality Check

NewsGuard's Reality Check

A report on how misinformation online is undermining trust—and who’s behind it. Produced by co-CEOs Steven Brill, Gordon Crovitz, and the NewsGuard Team.

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