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PLUS: Laura Loomer’s Musk Bump
Laura Loomer’s Greatest Hits
Loomer has initiated or promoted 17 of the provably false narratives on significant news topics in NewsGuard’s catalog of False Narratives.
Triple Hearsay: Original Sources of the Claim that Haitians Eat Pets in Ohio Admit No First-Hand Knowledge
“I’m not sure I’m the most credible source because I don’t actually know the person who lost the cat,” Kimberly Newton told NewsGuard. She is the…
Commentary: Russia’s Paid Idiots and Useful Idiots
The spreaders of Russian disinformation not charged in last week’s U.S. indictment by the U.S. government are as harmful as the ones who were charged…
Trump-Harris Debate: No Haitians Eating Pets, No “Audio Earrings”
Welcome to Reality Check, your inside look at how misinformation online is undermining trust — and who’s behind it.
Fake Video on Fake Website Accuses Kamala Harris of Hit-and-Run
PLUS: Apalachee Shooting Triggers False Flag Claims; FDA Never Said Mpox Doesn’t Exist
U.S. Seizes Websites NewsGuard Rated as Russian Disinformation
PLUS: Fake C-SPAN Caption Claims Single Clap for J.D. Vance; Trump Was Not Intentionally Put at Bottom of N.C. Ballot
Reality Check Commentary: I Unintentionally Boosted an AI “Content Farm” Business. I Don’t Regret It.
A journalist’s role is to report information. Sometimes there are unintended consequences, NewsGuard Enterprise Editor Jack Brewster writes.

August 2024

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