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Commentary: Russia Used to Deny Interfering. Now it’s Celebrating its Successes.
With fewer guardrails and more reach, Moscow openly cheers its disinformation wins.
Commentary: The Truth About Russia’s New ‘Global Fact-Checking Network’
Russia’s initiative is not fact-checking, writes NewsGuard AI and Foreign Influence Editor McKenzie Sadeghi. It’s an effort to defend Russian…
Commentary: How Kremlin Propaganda Foreshadowed Trump’s Call for Ukrainian Elections
A pattern of projection: Russia’s disinformation claims reveal more about Russia than about its Western targets
Commentary: Incoming Trump Regulators Want Journalists to Cave, Starting With Me
Journalists answer to the public, not government regulators
Commentary: Newsmax misleads incoming Trump regulators, claiming ad boycott while investor pitch boasts of 228% ad sales growth from top…
Welcome to Reality Check, your inside look at how misinformation online is undermining trust — and who’s behind it.
Commentary: FCC Commissioner Gets Hoodwinked About NewsGuard
Welcome to Reality Check, your inside look at how misinformation online is undermining trust — and who’s behind it.
Commentary: Progress in Countering Foreign Malign Influence on the Election
As U.S. election approached, the intelligence community pushed back harder against Russian, Chinese, and Iranian disinformation
Commentary: The Foreign Malign Influenced Election
Aggressive Russian, Chinese, and Iranian disinformation enabled by digital platforms, AI, and a passive U.S. government
Commentary: The story behind our story: Why NewsGuard decided to debunk an unverified claim that Walz once sexually harassed a student
Welcome to Reality Check, your inside look at how misinformation online is undermining trust — and who’s behind it.
Commentary: Reality Check Readers Match Wits with Russian Disinformation Operatives
We asked readers to predict false claims the Russians would make about Zelensky following his trip to the U.S. They rose to the occasion but couldn’t…
Commentary: Reader Contest: Shop with Volodymyr Zelensky
In this Reality Check commentary, readers are invited to predict what purchases Russian disinformation will falsely claim the Ukrainian president made…
Reality Check Commentary: Facebook Fabulism: If Your Neighbor Says Haitians Eat Cats, Check It Out
Decline of local press and rise of social media a toxic combination, says NewsGuard Executive Editor Jim Warren
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