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Reality Check Misinformation Fingerprints 12.20.24
UnitedHealthcare CEO Killing Sparks Wild Claims
New ‘Evidence’ for Haitian Pet-Eating Claim Doesn’t Pan Out
FALSE: CDC researchers have admitted COVID-19 vaccines are harmful to young children
Efforts to Censor NewsGuard: False Claims by FCC Chairman-select Brendan Carr
Sorry, Bluesky, But These Major Brands Are Not Fleeing X
No, Donald Trump Doesn’t Plan to Deport Barron Trump
Commentary: FCC Commissioner Gets Hoodwinked About NewsGuard
Liberals Push False Smallpox Claim to Undermine RFK Jr.
MRNA Vaccines Can Cause Cancer Misinformation Fingerprint
Fake Economist Cover Used by Russia to Create WWIII Fears
Fake Claims of Elon Musk’s Latest Acquisitions
Ghana Becomes the Latest Nation Targeted With AI-generated Election Misinformation
Musk’s Starlink Falsely Accused of Election Rigging
Despite Claims by Left-wing Social Media, Musk’s Starlink Did Not Rig the Election for Trump
ThePeoplesVoice.tv Nutrition Label
RFK Jr. Healthcare Claims Depository
Introducing the RFK Jr. Healthcare Claims Depository
Now It’s Election Denialism From the Left
Commentary: Progress in Countering Foreign Malign Influence on the Election
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NewsGuard’s Pre-Election Misinformation Guide
Fake Photo of Harris in McDonald’s Gear Cited by Liberals and Conservatives
Reality Check 11.1.24 Misinformation Fingerprints
Commentary: The Foreign Malign Influenced Election
False Voting Claims Soar as Election Day Nears
Dougan Russian Disinformation Depository
Inside a Propaganda Machine: The Dougan Russian Disinformation Depository
Dougan Misinformation Fingerprints
Doctored College Transcript Shows Trump’s “Failing” Grades
New Walz Sexual Harassment ‘Accuser’ Created by AI
Reality Check 10.18.24 Misinformation Fingerprints
Startling Images of Flooded Disney World… No, It’s AI
Reality Check 10.14.24 Misinformation Fingerprints
Unverified “Grooming” Accusation Against Walz Promoted by Russian Disinformation Operative
Flood of Hurricane Myths Seen by Millions
Hurricane Misinformation Fingerprints
Commentary: Reality Check Readers Match Wits with Russian Disinformation Operatives
Liberals Falsely Claim Project 2025 Defunds National Weather Service
Calls to Boycott Coke for False Claim its Custom Can Tool Favors Harris
Russia Targets Harris with Rhino-Shooting Hoax and Fake Website
Kremlin Disinformation Operation Targets Harris Misinformation Fingerprints
Major Brands Unknowingly Fund Debunked Haitian Migrant Claim
Musk Boosts Four Favorite Misinformation Superspreaders
Kremlin Bots Spread AI-Generated Country Song Attacking Zelensky Related Misinformation Fingerprints
Commentary: Reader Contest: Shop with Volodymyr Zelensky
Reality Check Commentary: Facebook Fabulism: If Your Neighbor Says Haitians Eat Cats, Check It Out
Russians Blame Ukraine for Attempted Trump Assassination
The Second Failed Trump Assassination Attempt False Narratives
67% of Top News Sites Block Access by AI
Commentary: Russia’s Paid Idiots and Useful Idiots
Trump-Harris Debate: No Haitians Eating Pets, No “Audio Earrings”
Fake Video on Fake Website Accuses Kamala Harris of Hit-and-Run
False Narratives Claiming that a Shooting was a False Flag or Staged Event
U.S. Seizes Websites NewsGuard Rated as Russian Disinformation
42% of Russia-Ukraine War Misinformation Originated on Telegram
Some of the most prominent false Russia-Ukraine war claims that originated on Telegram
AI Sites Profit from Brittney Griner Hoax
Reality Check Commentary: The Satire Trap
False Claims Originating as Satire
Special Report: In AI Image Wars, Grok Leads in Misinformation
Sample of False Narratives Tested on AI Image Generators
Somali Flags and Other Bogus Claims About Tim Walz
False Narratives About Tim Walz
Reality Check Commentary: Wherever Ukraine’s Zelensky Goes, That’s Where He Shops
Volodymyr Zelensky Misinformation Fingerprints
Russian Deep Fake: “Obama” Admits Dems Planned Trump Shooting
No, Zelensky Did Not Purchase Sting’s Tuscany Winery; Walz & Vance: Horse Semen & Couches
USNewsper.com is not American or News; It’s Lithuanian AI!
Reality Check Commentary: The Limits of Fact Checks
False Olympics Claims: Terrorism, Crime, and Wardrobe Malfunction
The Left’s Myths About Project 2025
Reality Check Commentary: News Media's 1.28% Crisis
Faked Signature for Biden’s Withdrawal Letter? No.
Trump Shooting Sparks "BlueAnon" — Left-wing QAnon
AI Chatbots Fail on the Trump Assassination Attempt Story
Was Trump Shooting Staged or Biden’s Doing?
Exposing TikTok’s AI-Generated Misinformation
Reality Check Commentary: No News Is Bad News: Some AI Models Are Trained to Avoid News
French Election: Surprise Results, Familiar False Claims
Rumble Crashes, Conspiracies Fly
X’s AI Superspread Presidential Debate Misinformation
Get the real story about online misinformation—and the forces behind it.
Reality Check Commentary: ‘Data Voids’ Cause AI Models to Spread Russian Disinformation
Google News Promotes AI-Generated 'News'
Trump Appeal Judges Are All Black Women? Not So Fast
67% of Top Brands Inadvertently Fund Misinformation, Stanford Study Finds
Reality Check Commentary: Tips for Avoiding Pink Slime “News”
Sad Milestone: Fake Local News Sites Now Outnumber Real Local Newspaper Sites in U.S.
Fake Local News Network Infects 49 States with Fake COVID-19 Death Claims
Reality Check Commentary: Satire should be funny — and labeled
Fugitive Florida Deputy Sheriff Who Became Kremlin Disinformation Impresario
Russia invents a Nazi pizza parlor in Ukraine
Reality Check Commentary: Using Misrepresented Visuals to Lie: When the Truth Isn't Enough
Fake Accounts on X Say They’re Not Voting for Biden
This photo of Kristi Noem's dead dog went viral on the left. It's fake.
Invitation to Become a Member of NewsGuard’s Reality Check
Invitation to Become a Member of NewsGuard’s Reality Check
“Gazawood” Claims Spike Ahead of Rafah Offensive
QAnon Claims on X Soar by 1,283%
Beware of Websites With “Truth” in their Names
NewsGuard Finds 167 Chinese “Spamouflage” Accounts
Kremlin Hijacks Hollywood Stars
Build-A-Bear gets a satanic AI makeover
Iran’s Leader Declared Most Powerful Man by (Faked) Forbes Cover
Iranian state media fakes success against Israel
Reality Check Commentary: At Least O.J. Reality TV Was Real
$105 to Create an AI-Generated Partisan Local News Website
No, the Ken Doll is Not Pregnant
Reality Check Commentary: Kremlin Makes Ukraine’s Zelensky a Real Estate Mogul
Reality Check Commentary: Back When Bridges Collapsed, but the Truth Survived
Baltimore bridge collapse sparks multiple false claims
Reality Check Commentary: The Kremlin’s Disinformation Campaign Against Its Own People
Special Edition: The Moscow Terror Attack
Pink Slime Time: Election Year Launches of Secretly Partisan Local News
Nyet, comrade, it’s not true that King Charles has died
Misinformation from the creator of “Scruples” card game
Milestone: NewsGuard has found 750 AI-generated “news” websites
Reality Check Commentary: A Faked Kate is Just The Beginning
Did you hear Gmail is being shut down?
COVID deniers now have their own musical
Nestlé Nesquik Nonsense about Frogs
KFC Falsely Accused of Insulting Palestinian Refugees
Costco Conspiracy in Aisle Seven
We’ve Now Found More than 700 AI-Generated ‘News’ Sites
The Misinformation Pandemic: Over 300 Vaccine Myths and Counting
The Great Super Bowl Conspiracy
Reality Check Commentary: Tucker Carlson Sits By as Putin Claims Poland Started WWII
Kremlin Corrects Tucker Carlson
Unmasking the Taylor Swift ‘Psyop Plot’