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High Egg Prices Blamed on Biden Plot to Kill Chickens
PLUS: Measles Vaccine Gets a Faulty Misdiagnosis; Target Did Not Lose Billions Over DEI Policy Switch
Bad Actors Fake Being Real News Outlets at Alarming Rate
PLUS: Starlink Operating in Ukraine, Contrary to Deepfake Claims; Zelensky Outfit at Oval Office Meeting Spurs Temu, Hugo Boss Fakes
A well-funded Moscow-based global ‘news’ network has infected Western artificial intelligence tools worldwide with Russian propaganda
An audit found that the 10 leading generative AI tools advanced Moscow’s disinformation goals by repeating false claims from the pro-Kremlin Pravda…
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Zelensky-Trump Clash Sparks False Claim about Democratic Coaching
PLUS: Ailing Pope Targeted with Hoaxes; Conspiracy Theories Light Up After ICE Van Catches Fire
Vaccines Falsely Blamed for Measles Outbreak
PLUS: Deepfake of Don Jr. Fools Democratic Party; AmEx Faces Boycott Over False Claim it Purged Israel from Website; Conservatives Boost Fake Trump…

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Russian Operative Reveals Plans to Target Western AI
PLUS: Dodgy Data Site Spawns False USAID Claims; Another Prominent Misinformation Spreader Joins the Trump Team
Commentary: How Kremlin Propaganda Foreshadowed Trump’s Call for Ukrainian Elections
A pattern of projection: Russia’s disinformation claims reveal more about Russia than about its Western targets
Russia’s War on Ukraine: Three Years, Three Hundred and Two False Claims
AI and Invented Corruption Claims Supercharge Russian Disinformation About the War
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Elon Musk’s 28 False Claims Get 825.2 Million Views
From $50 million taxpayer dollars for condoms in Gaza to a 40% pay increase for Congress, Musk is correct that some of his claims are “incorrect”
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No, Gov. Shapiro Didn’t Plan Trump Assassination Attempt
PLUS: Calls to Boycott Coca-Cola Over Nonexistent ICE Raids; Jewish Celebs Didn’t Really Flip Off Kanye West; Obama Daughter Drawn into USAID False…
Bogus Claims that USAID Funded Politico and Epstein
PLUS: Now the Russians Claim Zelensky Bought Hitler’s Mountain Retreat; NewsGuard Finds AI Models Spread False Claim Most Often in Russian and Chinese
Amazon’s Ring Faces Boycott Over Misrepresented ICE Raid Alerts
PLUS: Fake Russian Video Claiming USAID Funded Celebrity Trips to Ukraine Goes Viral; No, Trump Did Not Fire 3,000 Air Traffic Controllers; Parody…
Bloomingdale’s Ads Fund Fake Claims About D.C. Air Disaster
PLUS: Imaginary U.S. Funding for Condoms in Gaza; Lyme Disease Falsely Labeled as Bioweapon
Hoaxsters Take Advantage of D.C. Plane Crash
PLUS: Right and Left Distort Trump Immigration Actions; Even Polio Vaccines Are Not Immune from False Claims
Chinese Chatbot Phenom is a Disinformation Machine
DeepSeek’s AI chatbot advances China’s position 60 percent of the time in response to prompts about Chinese, Russian, and Iranian false claims, a…
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DeepSeek Debuts with 83 Percent ‘Fail Rate’ in NewsGuard’s Chatbot Red Team Audit
The new Chinese AI tool finished 10th out of 11 industry players
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Trump Comments Spark Election Conspiracy Theories from the Left
PLUS: Conservatives Fabricate Biden Pardon; Liberals Lament Fake Sale of TikTok to Meta
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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