Reality Check: A newsletter about how misinformation spreads—and who’s behind it.
Reality Check is a newsletter that dives beneath your news feed to explore how misinformation spreads online and uncover the forces that shape online narratives.
Published three times per week, Reality Check regularly breaks unique, important stories related to tech, media, and misinformation.
Reality Check’s global coverage, created by the team of information reliability analysts at NewsGuard, features exclusive scoops and in-depth investigations, such as tracing a false claim about Haitian migrants eating pets back to its original source or discovering that top chatbots repeat Russian disinformation 33% of the time.
From exposing malign actors impersonating local newspapers to debunking Taylor Swift deepfakes, Reality Check explores the unexpected and sometimes absurd ways unreliable information manifests in culture, politics, and business worldwide.
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NewsGuard combines human expertise and technology to provide data, analysis and journalism that helps enterprises and consumers identify reliable information online.
NewsGuard’s detailed Source Reliability Ratings, produced by a team of expert analysts using apolitical journalistic criteria and a transparent process, enable enterprises and consumers to identify reliable sources of information at scale, with coverage of more than 35,000 online sources accounting for 95%+ of engagement. Our continuously updated Misinformation Fingerprints help clients identify and mitigate unreliable information, with data and analysis covering 30,000+ instances of false narratives spreading online with detailed and precise data seeds built for automated tracking. Altogether, NewsGuard has collected more than 6.9 million information reliability data points for its clients and customers since its 2018 launch.
NewsGuard’s data are used by top AI companies, search engines, news aggregators, and other technology companies to build platforms that provide consumers with reliable information and avoid spreading unreliable information. They enable brands to advertise safely on reliable news sources while avoiding brand-safety risk. Researchers use NewsGuard’s data to study broader trends in online information reliability, and defense-industry analysts rely on NewsGuard’s data to identify and defend against hostile foreign information operations targeting democracies worldwide.
NewsGuard’s news-literacy browser extension helps news consumers assess the reliability of sources they encounter online.
Founded by media entrepreneur and award-winning journalist Steven Brill and former Wall Street Journal publisher Gordon Crovitz, NewsGuard’s products are all produced using a combination of human analysis scaled by technology.
Our work is conducted by a team of journalists trained as information reliability analysts using a transparent and apolitical approach and a multi-layered review process to ensure high information quality.
We are a strictly nonpartisan organization with investors and leadership from across the political spectrum.
