Get the real story about online misinformation—and the forces behind it.
In Reality Check, expert analysts from NewsGuard dive beneath your news feed to give you the real story about how misinformation shapes our reality, where it comes from, and how it spreads.
From AI-generated stories to fake local news sites funded by dark-money groups to Russian disinformation ops, Reality Check exposes misinformation and the forces behind it, week by week.
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