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 NewsGuard audit finds

Special Report

By Macrina Wang, McKenzie Sadeghi, and Charlene Lin

Editor’s Note: NewsGuard published an audit earlier this week assessing DeepSeek’s overall performance against its Western competitors, accessible here.

Chinese company DeepSeek’s new AI chatbot advanced the positions of the Beijing government 60 percent of the time in response to prompts a…