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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
Commentary: Russia’s Paid Idiots and Useful Idiots
The spreaders of Russian disinformation not charged in last week’s U.S. indictment by the U.S. government are as harmful as the ones who were charged…
Reality Check Commentary: I Unintentionally Boosted an AI “Content Farm” Business. I Don’t Regret It.
A journalist’s role is to report information. Sometimes there are unintended consequences, NewsGuard Enterprise Editor Jack Brewster writes.
Reality Check Commentary: The Satire Trap
Satire is harming real news, writes NewsGuard’s Eric Effron. Users and untrustworthy sites often skip the “satire” label, making false claims appear…
Reality Check Commentary: Wherever Ukraine’s Zelensky Goes, That’s Where He Shops
Russia's disinformation campaign follows Ukraine's president to his visits with Western allies, writes NewsGuard Co-CEO Gordon Crovitz
Reality Check Commentary: The Limits of Fact Checks
The debate over Kamala Harris’s immigration work in the Biden administration shows that fact checkers should sometimes stay out of it, writes NewsGuard…
Reality Check Commentary: News Media's 1.28% Crisis
NewsGuard Co-CEO Gordon Crovitz writes that advertisers can be democracy’s heroes by restoring badly needed ad revenue to trustworthy news publishers
Reality Check Commentary: No News Is Bad News: Some AI Models Are Trained to Avoid News
NewsGuard Co-CEO Gordon Crovitz highlights new benchmark report showing that many AI models refuse to respond to topics in the news
Reality Check Commentary: From Macedonian Teenagers to Multibillion-Dollar AI Models: Professionalizing Election Misinformation
NewsGuard Co-CEO Gordon Crovitz notes that tools to create believable fake claims have advanced dramatically since the 2016 election
Reality Check Commentary: ‘Data Voids’ Cause AI Models to Spread Russian Disinformation
Misinformation sources are often the only news AI models access, making them unintentional collaborators with the worst spreaders of false news, writes…
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