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New: NewsGuard found ads for dozens of major brands unintentionally appearing below viral posts on X advancing false or egregiously misleading claims about the Israel-Hamas war newsguardtech.com/misinforma…
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We're excited to announce that NewsGuard now works on @duckduckgo: Get journalistic credibility ratings for news and information websites right in your browser, displayed next to links on #duckduckgo. Download the extension at newsguardtech.com.
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From Nov. 13 to Nov. 22, 2023, NewsGuard analysts reviewed programmatic ads that appeared in the feeds below 30 viral tweets that contained false or egregiously misleading information about the war.
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These 30 viral tweets were posted by ten of X’s worst purveyors of Israel-Hamas war-related misinformation, and have cumulatively reached an audience of over 92 million viewers, according to X data. On average, each tweet was seen by 3 million people.
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A NewsGuard review found that #TikTok’s search feature—which is increasingly being used by young people as a search engine—is regularly feeding users false and misleading claims. Read NewsGuard's September Misinformation Monitor newsguardtech.com/misinforma…
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NEW: @Facebook Pages with millions of followers continue to publish fake COVID-19 cures and conspiracy theories. We've just released a report naming 15 of these misinformation "super-spreaders" that reach 18.6M followers combined: newsguardtech.com/supersprea… (1/6)
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A Russian disinformation network boosted the number of “pink slime” outlets — sites that present themselves as independent local news outlets but are instead funded by partisan groups — to 1,265, outnumbering the websites of 1,213 daily newspapers left in the U.S., according to @LocalNewsIni. Traditional newspapers are disappearing at a rate of two and a half per week, leaving millions of Americans without legitimate local news coverage. Read more: newsguardrealitycheck.com/i/…
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However, the other half did not feature a Community Note. Ads for major brands such as Pizza Hut, Airbnb, Microsoft, Paramount, and Oracle were found by NewsGuard on posts with and without a Community Note (more on this below).
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A list of the 30 tweets and the 10 accounts used in NewsGuard’s analysis is available here: docs.google.com/spreadsheets…
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NewsGuard found that 25 Twitter Blue verified accounts were responsible for 141 tweets containing false, misleading, & unsubstantiated claims in one week. These tweets were viewed nearly 27M times and received more than 760K likes and retweets during this period. Read our full report newsguardtech.com/misinforma…
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The false or egregiously misleading claims include that the Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas attack against Israel was a “false flag” and that CNN staged footage of an October 2023 rocket attack on a news crew in Israel.
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Half of the tweets (15) were flagged with a fact-check by Community Notes, X’s crowd-source fact-checking feature, which under the X policy would have made them ineligible for advertising revenue.
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TikTok accounts are deceptively repurposing footage from “Shark Tank” — including fake Mark Cuban endorsements — to create misleading promotions of TikTok Shop products, in an apparent effort to boost sales and earn commissions. Read it in Reality Check: newsguardrealitycheck.com/p/…
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ANNOUNCEMENT: To help combat dangerous misinformation during the COVID-19 crisis, NewsGuard is temporarily removing the paywall from our browser extension to make it free to all users. newsguardtech.com/free
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NewsGuard discovered 167 Russian disinformation websites that appear to be part of a network masquerading as independent local U.S. news publishers. The man behind the Russian propaganda network is former Florida deputy sheriff John Mark Dougan. Read the Special Report: newsguardtech.com/special-re…
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Searching for “U.S. midterm elections” on Rumble, the top result we found was a QAnon account claiming that the U.S. Supreme Court canceled the midterms. This is false, of course, but it is part of a pattern on Rumble. Read our new report newsguardtech.com/special-re…
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NewsGuard’s co-CEOs @stevenbrill and @crovitz speak with @brianstelter about our work identifying and countering misinformation online.
It gives people tools "to determine is this something that I should trust generally or is this misinformation," says co-CEO Gordon Crovitz of @NewsGuardRating. "In the US... the sites that account for 95% of engagement, almost 40% of them get a red [not trustworthy] rating."
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New: NewsGuard has launched an Israel-Hamas War Misinformation Tracking Center documenting top war-related myths that have already reached tens of millions across the globe since the conflict began on Oct. 7 View NewsGuard's Tracking Center here: newsguardtech.com/special-re…
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In recent days, @Facebook has tried to highlight the huge number of users viewing authoritative information on their platform. Today, a NewsGuard report for the @WHO found Facebook algorithms still pushing users toward anti-vaccine misinformation pages newsguardtech.com/who-report…
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“I’m not sure I’m the most credible source because I don’t actually know the person who lost the cat.” An exclusive NewsGuard report reveals that the explosive claim that Haitian migrants in Springfield, Ohio, are stealing and eating pets was ultimately based on triple hearsay by local residents with no direct knowledge of such behavior. Read it in Reality Check: newsguardrealitycheck.com/p/…
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New: A NewsGuard analysis found that artificial intelligence tools are being used by content farms to generate vast amounts of news content with little to no human oversight. Read our special report here: newsguardtech.com/special-re…
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The AP covers the lead story from our newest Misinformation Monitor.
A new research report says the conservative TV channel Newsmax is presenting viewers with an “alternate universe” of how the deadly siege at the U.S. Capitol unfolded on Jan. 6, 2021. apnews.com/article/capitol-s…
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Nearly three-fourths of the most viral posts on X advancing misinformation about the Israel-Hamas War are being pushed by “verified” X accounts, a NewsGuard analysis found Read this month’s Misinformation Monitor: newsguardtech.com/misinforma…
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We know that sketchy sites are popular. But just how popular? Turns out, more than 1 in 10 interactions with news on @Twitter and @Facebook last month happened on stories from questionable sites. More stunning numbers in our Misinformation Monitor: newsguardtech.com/misinforma…
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Replying to @JessicaHuseman
Disclosing ownership and financing is one of the nine journalistic criteria NewsGuard uses to rate news and information websites. We prefer to let our Nutrition Labels to speak for themselves but for the record, thefederalist.com fails this and two other of our criteria.
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NEW: NewsGuard’s team have identified a further 56 sites spreading disinformation about the war in Ukraine & 13 new myths spreading online about the conflict. NewsGuard’s teams continue to monitor and counter disinformation about the invasion of Ukraine. newsguardtech.com/special-re…
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Laura Loomer, in the headlines this week amid reports that she has been a regular on former President Donald Trump’s campaign plane, has initiated or promoted *17* false narratives on major news topics in NewsGuard’s database of myth debunks. newsguardrealitycheck.com/p/…
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Attention @Microsoft Edge users: You can now access NewsGuard ratings directly from your Edge mobile browser. Just go to settings and select "News Rating" to see credibility ratings of news sites from trained journalists and editors. newsguardtech.com/press/news…
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NEW: Today we join forces with @knightfdn, @microsoft, @MountSinaiNYC, @tweetPHM and others to launch #VaxFacts, a campaign aimed at fighting vaccine misinformation by giving every family free access to our new HealthGuard tool newsguardtech.com/VaxFacts
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NewsGuard is LIVE. Read about the launch exclusively on @axios and download the extension on Chrome bit.ly/2mMUEKj or Edge bit.ly/2N0ASX6 axios.com/newsguard-launches…
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The five leading Chinese-backed AI models failed to provide accurate information 60% of the time in response to English and Mandarin language prompts about false narratives promoted by Beijing, a NewsGuard audit found. Read the full report: newsguardtech.com/special-re…
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NewsGuard’s @mskibinski speaks with @brianstelter and @KyungLahCNN about our work reporting on the credibility of thousands of news sources, using basic journalistic criteria 1/3 cnn.com/videos/business/2021…
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A NewsGuard analysis found that “verified” accounts on X are superspreaders of misinformation about the conflict, boosting falsehoods while displaying a “verification” blue checkmark Read this month’s Misinformation Monitor: newsguardtech.com/misinforma…
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ICYMI: A NewsGuard review has found that a network of sites disguised as local news outlets are part of a coordinated campaign to boost Democrats ahead of the midterm elections. newsguardtech.com/special-re…
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A misinformation milestone: Since the outbreak of the Israel-Hamas War in October 2023, NewsGuard analysts have documented 111 Israel-Hamas war falsehoods online, spread by 331 websites, through social media platforms, and in search results. Read more: newsguardtech.com/press/misi…
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Today's tweet by President Trump shows the value of "pre-bunking" conspiracy theories by flagging unreliable sources that regularly spread falsehoods. The story came from Conservative Treehouse, a site NewsGuard already rated red for posting conspiracies… 1/7
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ICYMI: Check out NewsGuard’s @mskibinski on @ReliableSources, talking about our work reporting out the credibility of thousands of news sources 1/2 cnn.com/videos/business/2021…
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NewsGuard debunks an unverified “grooming” accusation against Tim Walz that was promoted by Russian disinformation operative John Dougan. Read Reality Check for NewsGuard’s report on how Walz’s background as a schoolteacher and LGBTQ+ advocate was targeted by a Russian disinformation operative, a QAnon podcast, and right-wing social media newsguardrealitycheck.com/p/…
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A NewsGuard report finds that X Premium, formerly Twitter Blue, subscribers are fueling the spread of misinformation about the Israel-Hamas War Read our latest Misinformation Monitor: newsguardtech.com/misinforma…
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ICYMI: NewsGuard’s @madelineroache speaks about the “hermetically sealed bubble” created by the Russian state media’s coverage of the war in Ukraine.
Russians increasingly dependent on the lies and misinformation from state-owned media as independent news in the country is nearly eliminated @brianstelter reports
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News from AI-generated websites is appearing on one of the world’s most popular news aggregators, competing with traditional news outlets for clicks and ads. NewsGuard has identified 54 AI content farms whose articles – sometimes appearing by the dozens – have been aggregated by Google News. Read more: newsguardrealitycheck.com/i/…
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NEW: Three-quarters of the top 250 posts on X spreading false/unsubstantiated claims about the Israel-Hamas War shared in the first week of the conflict came from X Premium users Read our latest Misinformation Monitor: newsguardtech.com/misinforma…
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NewsGuard co-CEO @StevenBrill will discuss NewsGuard's ratings of news websites with @mitchellreports shortly. Be sure to tune in and download our browser extension and see the ratings on Chrome bit.ly/2mMUEKj or Edge bit.ly/2N0ASX6
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NewsGuard has partnered with @Neeva, the first search engine to provide its users with NewsGuard’s Reliability Ratings directly in their search results. To try it out today and start getting more context for the news you encounter online, visit neeva.com.
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NEW: Since launching our Tracking Center in March, NewsGuard has identified 250 websites spreading #disinformation about the Russia-Ukraine war. NewsGuard’s staff have also debunked 50+ myths related to the ongoing conflict. 🧵
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This year, stay abreast of the evolving misinformation landscape by subscribing to NewsGuard's free weekly Misinformation Risk Briefing on LinkedIn. Read the latest edition here: linkedin.com/feed/update/urn…
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Special Report: QAnon in Europe NewsGuard’s reporters have traced how an American conspiracy theory migrated to Europe and gained followers by adapting to local circumstances, and bolstered because of the COVID-19 pandemic. newsguardtech.com/special-re…
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Twitter’s “blue check” used to signal author authenticity. Now, it's a way for peddlers of misinformation to appear trustworthy. Read NewsGuard’s exclusive new report on Twitter Blue: newsguardtech.com/misinforma…
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Since Tuesday, NewsGuard has published six myths and their debunks to our Midterm Election Misinformation Tracking Center, including myths about a poll worker rigging ballots, Arizona voting machines, and sharpies in Illinois.
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You didn’t just imagine it: According to @GMFDigital, there really was more dis/misinfo on Twitter and Facebook in 2020. gmfus.org/blog/2021/01/27/so…
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NewsGuard uncovered a network of nearly 1,500 fake accounts on Facebook and X that appears to be engaged in a coordinated effort to promote pro-India content, bolster the image of the Narendra Modi-led administration, and undermine Pakistan. Read the report: newsguardtech.com/special-re…
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Websites that spread #misinformation about the U.S. #election in 2020 are still spreading false claims about the race. Read more in NewsGuard’s latest Misinformation Monitor. newsguardtech.com/misinforma…
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Want to stay informed about misinformation without the lengthy fact-checks? NewsGuard’s weekly newsletter, Reality Check, brings you up to speed in a matter of minutes. Read this week’s newsletter and subscribe here: newsguardtech.substack.com/p…
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Despite @Facebook's announced efforts to warn users of misinformation, we found that in a majority of cases—63%—the false Facebook posts we reviewed showed no warning, fact-checking language, or links to more credible sources, even though they reached millions of users. (2/6)
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Through Trump’s reposts, verified accounts, and other methods, Truth Social has become an active booster of QAnon, NewsGuard finds Read NewsGuard’s August Misinformation Monitor newsguardtech.com/misinforma…
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With @GwynethPaltrow’s @goop launching on @Netflix soon, don't miss NewsGuard's trust rating for the site. Our review found it failed to meet 8 of 9 basic standards for credibility and transparency.
Gwyneth Paltrow welcomes you to The Goop Lab on January 24
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Could ChatGPT Become A Monster Misinformation Superspreader? NewsGuard’s latest report confirms fears, showing how the chatbot could be weaponized to disseminate false info at scale Read NewsGuard’s January Misinformation Monitor: newsguardtech.com/misinforma…
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UPDATE: We've just added a new set of @Facebook pages to our list of COVID-19 misinformation "super-spreaders." The list now contains 31 Facebook pages that reach 21.3MM users. newsguardtech.com/supersprea… (1/3)
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A network of secretly partisan “pink slime” websites published nearly identical articles across 49 states, falsely claiming that COVID-19 vaccines have caused thousands of deaths that were reported to the U.S. Vaccine Adverse Events Reporting System (VAERS). This is misleading. VAERS is a federal database designed to detect possible safety issues with vaccines and reports can be made anonymously by anyone — including anti-vaccine activists — and do not prove that the vaccines caused the reported health event. Read more in today’s #RealityCheck newsletter: newsguardrealitycheck.com/i/…
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This is an ongoing list; we plan to add more Pages to it as we encounter them. To read the full report, click here: newsguardtech.com/supersprea… (6/6)
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When NewsGuard offered @Facebook our data on websites that spread misinformation at the start of the pandemic - they didn’t want it. Picking fights with @POTUS won’t fix the misinformation epidemic - working collaboratively will. Our door is open.
JUST IN: @Facebook responds to Biden (“They’re killing people”) re: COVID misinformation: “The facts show Facebook is helping save lives. Period.” Full statement here.
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NewsGuard found that Storm-1516 — a Russian influence operation that uses AI to create and spread false claims — has targeted France with disinformation that spread in 38,877 social media posts, generating 55.8 million views. Read the report: newsguardrealitycheck.com/p/…
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A week ago, NewsGuard launched the Coronavirus Misinformation Tracking Center. As of today, we’ve identified 106 sites, up from 31 at launch. The number suggests unreliable publishers are increasingly looking to profit off people’s fears about the global epidemic.
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Many of the Pages we found have repeatedly spread false health claims—not just about COVID-19, but about other illnesses, too. For example, a page called The Truth About Cancer posted anti-vaccine myths and phony cancer cures before it published COVID-19 misinformation. (5/6)
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Conspiracy-oriented social media users are baselessly claiming that officials including Gov. Gavin Newsom, State Farm insurance’s CEO Jon Farney, and Hollywood elites conspired to ignite the California fires to cover up tunnels supposedly built beneath LA to traffic children. Read the details in Reality Check: newsguardrealitycheck.com/i/…
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We're dismayed, but not surprised, to see @Poynter had to pull its list of "unreliable" news sites after one day. Their well-intentioned effort seems to have nonetheless been flawed in several ways.
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The number of sites identified by NewsGuard as spreading Russian disinformation and profiting from programmatic advertising has nearly tripled in the one year since Russia invaded Ukraine newsguardtech.com/special-re…
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Dear Mr. Trump: We recommend you read our full rating of this site. It does not have a perfect score; it fails several of our nine criteria. The story you cited was published before it was charged that the attack was false & has been updated with an editors' note. @donaldtrumpjr
Media Matters still arguing that the Smollett attack was not a hoax, and they of course are “Newsguard certified” green check mark. That’s the problem with leftists policing “the news”. Newsguard Certified means nothing... if anything it probably means inivetable bias.
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Nearly a year after YouTube banned Russian state media, the platform continues to host documentaries produced by Kremlin propaganda outlet RT. NewsGuard found 250 uploads of films repeating egregious falsehoods about the war, spread across 100 channels. newsguardtech.com/misinforma…
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NewsGuard is launching the 2024 Election Misinformation Monitoring Center — starting today, we are offering free access to real-time debunks of election-related misinformation. Stay informed, and safeguard yourself against misinformation this election season. newsguardtech.com/special-re…
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Media reporter @sarafischer with @axios covered NewsGuard’s #RealityCheck report showing that the number of secretly partisan “pink slime” news websites have surpassed the number of local newspaper websites in the U.S. Read more: axios.com/2024/06/11/partisa…
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Replying to @Timcast
Thank you for flagging. The website this article is sourced from already has a RED rating from NewsGuard. Our analysts will review this to determine how our Nutrition Label for Yahoo News should be updated.
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The Biden administration recently announced actions aimed at countering Russian interference in the 2024 presidential election, including seizing 32 internet domains. Among those seized were websites identified by the U.S. as Russia-based propaganda sites that NewsGuard had already flagged for spreading misleading, pro-Kremlin information. Read more: newsguardrealitycheck.com/i/…
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Check out NewsGuard, whose analysts are rating and reviewing the 7,500 websites that account for 98% of engagement with news online in the U.S. @newsguardrating
Going to create a site where the public can rate the core truth of any article & track the credibility score over time of each journalist, editor & publication. Thinking of calling it Pravda …
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“Russian, Chinese, and Iranian disinformation is a year-round menace, not limited to election seasons,” Gordon Crovitz, co-CEO of NewsGuard, and McKenzie Sadeghi, NewsGuard’s AI and Foreign Influence Editor, remind readers in today’s Reality Check Commentary. Read about the progress made in countering foreign malign influence on elections — and the work still left to do — here: newsguardrealitycheck.com/p/…
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.@avaaz’s new report matches NewsGuard's recent reporting about how @Facebook’s recommendations algorithm is promoting anti-vaccine misinformation--and sending users down a rabbit hole of misinformation. secure.avaaz.org/campaign/en…
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We're excited to announce that @Microsoft has expanded its adoption of NewsGuard. The new agreement expands Microsoft's sponsorship of our news literacy program, provides NewsGuard free to @MicrosoftEdge users and delivers NewsGuard's rating data to @bing newsguardtech.com/press/micr…
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NewsGuard’s Misinformation SWAT Team Issues Red Ratings to Two Networks Publishing Dozens of Hoax Websites: newsguardtech.com/press/news…
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NewsGuard is tracking a network of sites, including marylandnews9.site & columbususpost.site, designed to look like #localnews outlets. They publish hoax stories and #misinformation w/o transparency. We'll soon ID the full network. Get NewsGuard: newsguardtech.com
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"In evaluating the prevalence of fake news, we advocate focusing on the original sources—the publishers—rather than individual stories, because we view the defining element of fake news to be the intent and processes of the publisher." science.sciencemag.org/conte…
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Dougan also threatened NewsGuard co-CEO @StevenBrill in a now-deleted YouTube video, and called Brill’s unlisted phone number impersonating an FBI agent. Brill details these experiences in his coming book “The Death of Truth,” which is excerpted in NewsGuard’s Special Report. Read the Special Report: newsguardtech.com/special-re…
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In some cases, such as three Facebook pages affiliated with the website Real Farmacy, we found evidence of what appears to be “coordinated inauthentic behavior,” which violates Facebook’s policies. Each page has over 1MM followers on @Facebook Facebook. (4/6)
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🤖 🚨: The number of Unreliable AI-Generated ‘News’ sites (UAINs) has tripled in less than a month from 49 to 150. To capture this evolving landscape, NewsGuard has launched a tracking center focused on unreliable AI news sources. newsguardtech.com/special-re…
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NEW: NewsGuard analyzed the Twitter activity from March 1 - 7, 2023, of 25 misinformation superspreader accounts that were “verified” by Twitter Blue. Our analysts found that the 25 accounts cumulatively posted 141 tweets containing false, misleading, and unsubstantiated claims.
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NewsGuard is now available on @Microsoft Edge mobile browser for iOS and Android! You can enable it in settings by selecting the "News Rating" option. newsguardtech.com/press/news…
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Many of the Pages we found were associated with websites for which we had already issued red "unreliable" ratings because they had published past falsehoods about other topics. They are repeat offenders. Yet they continue to be able to use @Facebook to spread false claims. (3/6)
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Must read: @Forrester cites @NewsGuardRating about how marketers are funding the “Misinformation Industry,” calling misinformation one of the five forces "transforming trust” and urging brands to “clean up their media plans” with services like NewsGuard.
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