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Commentary: Incoming Trump Regulators Want Journalists to Cave, Starting With Me
Journalists answer to the public, not government regulators
Jan 7
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.
Dec 12, 2024
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.
Nov 26, 2024
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
Nov 7, 2024
Commentary: The Foreign Malign Influenced Election
Aggressive Russian, Chinese, and Iranian disinformation enabled by digital platforms, AI, and a passive U.S. government
Oct 30, 2024
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.
Oct 17, 2024
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…
Oct 8, 2024
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…
Sep 25, 2024
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
Sep 20, 2024
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…
Sep 12, 2024
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.
Sep 4, 2024
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…
Aug 21, 2024
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