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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
Jul 23
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
Jul 10
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
Jul 3
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…
Jun 26
Reality Check Commentary: How We Became the Target of Russian Disinformation — And Partisan Politicians
An excerpt from The Death of Truth by NewsGuard Co-CEO Steven Brill.
Jun 21
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Reality Check Commentary: Tips for Avoiding Pink Slime “News”
The number of inauthentic “pink slime” news websites surpassed independent news outlets in the U.S., but smart news consumers can fight back, writes…
Jun 12
Reality Check Commentary: Satire should be funny — and labeled
Pseudo-satire advances misinformation and deepens our political divide, writes NewsGuard Editorial Director Eric Effron
Jun 5
Reality Check Commentary: Using Misrepresented Visuals to Lie: When the Truth Isn't Enough
In our misinformation age, even those who have the facts on their side choose to lie, writes NewsGuard Editorial Director Eric Effron
May 22
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May 15
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Reality Check Commentary: An MSNBC Interview About Campus Protests Gives Prime-Time Journalism Lessons
The public is best served when journalists inform, not lecture, writes NewsGuard Editorial Director Eric Effron
May 8
Reality Check Commentary: Generative AI Models Are Finally Paying to be Trained on Trustworthy Journalism
NewsGuard Co-CEO Gordon Crovitz writes that the deal ChatGPT made to access Financial Times journalism is a sign that the AI models know they need to…
May 1
Reality Check Commentary: No New Laws Needed to Force the Social Media Platforms to Protect their Users
In a commentary for Politico, Steven Brill argues that effective social media regulation can be achieved using existing consumer protection laws…
Apr 24
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