“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

Welcome to Reality Check, your inside look at how misinformation online is undermining trust — and who’s behind it.

Today:

• Dissecting the “Biden is dead” hoax: A viral conspiracy unveiled

• Field of schemes: NewsGuard has now identified 1,006 websites using AI to generate low-quality articles at scale 

• Shorting the truth: Financial firms dragged into Trump as…