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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:

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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

Brand Danger: X and Misinformation Super-spreaders Share Ad Money from False Claims About the...

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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 .

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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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9 months

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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2 years

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

Beware the 'New Google': TikTok’s Search Engine Pumps Toxic Misinformation To Its Young Users -...

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4 years

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: (1/6)

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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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1 year

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

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9 months

A list of the 30 tweets and the 10 accounts used in NewsGuard’s analysis is available here:

NewsGuard X Report - Underlying Tweet & Account Data

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9 months

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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2 months

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

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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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4 years

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.

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3 months

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:

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2 years

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

Making YouTube Look Good: Rumble Becomes Hoax Central Ahead of the Midterms

In search results, Rumble pushes twice as many sites rated untrustworthy by NewsGuard as YouTube

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3 years

NewsGuard’s co-CEOs @stevenbrill and @crovitz speak with @brianstelter about our work identifying and countering misinformation online.

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3 years

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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10 months

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:

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3 years

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

Reports to Governments, the EU Commission, and the WHO - NewsGuard

NewsGuard’s Reports to Governments, the EU Commission, and the World Health Organization In August 2020, NewsGuard announced a partnership with the World Health Organization to combat online misinf...

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2 years

The AP covers the lead story from our newest Misinformation Monitor.

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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.

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1 year

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:

Rise of the Newsbots: AI-Generated News Websites Proliferating Online - NewsGuard

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10 months

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:

Blue-Checked, ‘Verified’ Users on X Produce 74 Percent of the Platform’s Most Viral False or...

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4 years

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:

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5 years

@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, fails this and two other of our criteria.

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2 years

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.

Russia-Ukraine Disinformation Tracking Center - NewsGuard

In this Tracking Center, NewsGuard is recording and debunking the top myths related to the Russia-Ukraine conflict — and the dozens of Russian disinformation and propaganda websites spreading them....

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6 years

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.

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6 years

NewsGuard is LIVE. Read about the launch exclusively on @axios and download the extension on Chrome or Edge

NewsGuard launches first product with help from Microsoft

By October, it hopes to have completed ratings for 4,500 sites.

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4 years

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

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3 years

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

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10 months

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:

Blue-Checked, ‘Verified’ Users on X Produce 74 Percent of the Platform’s Most Viral False or...

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2 years

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.

Just in time for the midterms: New Entry Joins "Pink Slime" Pseudo-News Sweepstakes - NewsGuard %

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5 months

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:

Misinformation Milestone of More than 100 Israel-Hamas War False Claims - NewsGuard

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...

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4 years

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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3 years

ICYMI: Check out NewsGuard’s @mskibinski on @ReliableSources , talking about our work reporting out the credibility of thousands of news sources 1/2

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10 months

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:

Blue-Checked, ‘Verified’ Users on X Produce 74 Percent of the Platform’s Most Viral False or...

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2 years

ICYMI: NewsGuard’s @madelineroache speaks about the “hermetically sealed bubble” created by the Russian state media’s coverage of the war in Ukraine.

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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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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:

Blue-Checked, ‘Verified’ Users on X Produce 74 Percent of the Platform’s Most Viral False or...

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2 months

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

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3 years

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 .

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6 years

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 or Edge

NewsGuard - Chrome Web Store

NewsGuard's rating shields and labels help users know which news and information websites to trust.

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Andrea Mitchell

@mitchellreports

6 years

Coming up on #AMR : . @kwelkernbc . @PeteWilliamsNBC . @danielsgoldman . @JoyceWhiteVance . @woodruffbets . @SykesCharlie . @murphymike . @CharlieCookDC . @JuliaEAinsley . @SusanPage . @JDevermont . @StevenBrill And more on @MSNBC - tune in 12ET!

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2 years

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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3 years

With COVID misinformation rampant, today's launch of NewsGuard in Canada will help people identify websites they can trust and which are spreading fake news.

NewsGuard Announces Canada Launch to Tackle Misinformation Online - NewsGuard

NewsGuard’s ratings and ‘Nutrition Labels’ published for 90% of Canada’s online news, covering English and French speaking parts of the country. Pro bono Media Literacy Partnership Program also...

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1 year

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:

‘Blue Check’ Twitter Accounts are Flooding the Platform with False Claims - NewsGuard

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4 years

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.

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2 years

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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4 years

You didn’t just imagine it: According to @GMFDigital , there really was more dis/misinfo on Twitter and Facebook in 2020.

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2 years

Post-Musk, misinformation spreaders enjoy engagement boost on Twitter, NewsGuard analysis finds Read our exclusive report:

Twitter Misinformation Superspreaders See Huge Spike in Engagement Post-Acquisition by Elon Musk

Twitter’s most popular NewsGuard Red-Rated untrustworthy accounts garnered 57.04% increase in engagement in the week following the change in ownership

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3 years

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.

One Year After the Jan. 6 Riot, 81 Percent of 2020 Election Misinformation Publishers in the U.S....

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NEW: Having identified 125 Unreliable AI-generated News sites (“UAIN” sites), NewsGuard is announcing an industry standard framework for defining websites that publish AI-generated content with little to no transparency or human oversight.

NewsGuard Now Identifies 125 News and Information Websites Generated by AI, Develops Framework for...

Number of Unreliable AI-Generated Sites, Labeled ‘UAINs’, Up 155% in Two Weeks (May 19, 2023 —New York City) The number of news and information websites generated by AI — and operating with little...

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4 years

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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2 years

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

Trump and His Truth Social Platform Actively Promote QAnon - NewsGuard

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5 years

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.

Netflix

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Gwyneth Paltrow welcomes you to The Goop Lab on January 24

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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. (1/3)

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2 years

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:

Could ChatGPT Become A Monster Misinformation Superspreader?

In 80% of the cases, the AI chatbot advanced false and misleading claims when we asked leading questions about significant topics in the news, including COVID-19, Ukraine, and school shootings

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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.

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3 years

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.

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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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4 years

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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4 years

This is an ongoing list; we plan to add more Pages to it as we encounter them. To read the full report, click here: (6/6)

Tracking Facebook's COVID-19 Misinformation 'Super-spreaders' - NewsGuard

by Kendrick McDonald | Last updated April 23, 2020 Editor’s Note: As of April 23, 2020, we have added an additional 16 Facebook Pages to this list. Click here to jump to the new pages added in this...

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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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4 years

NEW: How the world’s largest brands funded the misinformation behind the Capitol riot. A NewsGuard analysis of programmatic advertising data finds over 1,600 brands advertised on sites publishing election myths leading up to the Capitol breach.

Special Report: How some of the world’s largest brands funded the misinformation behind the Capitol...

But an analysis of programmatic advertising data shows that many of the world’s largest and most trusted brands have been financially supporting websites, including sites funded by the Russian...

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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

Another Tech 'Innovation' With Unintended Consequences - NewsGuard

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2 years

NewsGuard found that TikTok is hosting hundreds of videos using violence and music to celebrate the Wagner Group, a notorious Russian mercenary outfit. Read our exclusive report:

1 Billion Views: TikTok Videos Promote Russian Mercenary Group, Despite Platform Rules

NewsGuard found that TikTok hosts hundreds of videos using violence and music to celebrate the Wagner Group, a notorious Russian mercenary outfit. These videos have been viewed more than 1 billion...

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5 years

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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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.

One Year, Fifty Films: Russian Propaganda Documentaries Spread on YouTube, Despite Ban

Full-length Russian propaganda films justifying the war proliferate on YouTube, despite the platform’s ban on Russian state-funded media

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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

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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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Read the full story of how a NewsGuard analyst connected the dots, shining light on a sophisticated multi-media global disinformation operation:

The Fugitive Florida Deputy Sheriff Who Became A Kremlin Disinformation Impresario - NewsGuard

John Mark Dougan fled to Moscow and orchestrated a global disinformation campaign featuring 167 websites and more than a dozen propaganda films.

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4 years

New findings out today from our research partners at the @UMich Center for Social Media Responsibility: "People ‘fly to quality’ news on social sites when faced with uncertainty"

People 'fly to quality' news on social sites when faced with uncertainty

When information becomes a matter of life or death or is key to navigating economic uncertainty, as it has during the COVID-19 pandemic, it appears people turn to tried and true sources of informat...

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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.

A Shot in the Dark

Researchers peer under the lid of Facebook’s “black box,” uncovering how its algorithm accelerates anti-vaccine content

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6 years

Press Release: More Than 500 Websites Improve their Journalism Trust Practices Through NewsGuard’s Rating Process

More Than 500 Websites Improve their Journalism Trust Practices Through NewsGuard’s Rating Process...

After Being Approached by NewsGuard, News Organizations Add Corrections Policies, Disclosure of Ownership and Financing, Staff Contact Information and More (January 31, 2019) NewsGuard, a company...

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NewsGuard’s Misinformation SWAT Team Issues Red Ratings to Two Networks Publishing Dozens of Hoax Websites:

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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

Elon Musk

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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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@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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. @PopSci covers NewsGuard’s latest misinformation monitor, revealing that “GPT-4 actually may even perform in a more harmful manner than its previous version.”

OpenAI's newest ChatGPT update can still spread conspiracy theories

A watchdog report indicates ChatGPT-4 is actually better at spreading misinformation than its predecessors, a problem PopSci can confirm.

www.popsci.com

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4 years

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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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

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NEW: We've just released a new set of @Twitter accounts to our list of COVID-19 misinformation "super-spreaders." The list now highlights 10 Twitter profiles that reach 3.2MM users. (1/4)

Twitter Super-Spreaders - NewsGuard

Tracking Twitter’s COVID-19 Misinformation ‘Super-spreaders’ by Kendrick McDonald As COVID-19 spreads around the world, NewsGuard has been tracking the top hoaxes about the pandemic that are spread...

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6 years

"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."

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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:

"Pink slime" news outlets outpacing local daily newspapers

Many of those sites are targeted to swing states — a clear sign that they're designed to influence politics.

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4 years

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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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.

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NewsGuard is tracking a network of sites, including & , designed to look like #localnews outlets. They publish hoax stories and #misinformation w/o transparency. We'll soon ID the full network. Get NewsGuard:

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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.

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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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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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🤖 🚨: 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.

Tracking AI-enabled Misinformation: Over 1000 ‘Unreliable AI-Generated News’ Websites (and Counti...

www.newsguardtech.com

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3 years

#SocialMedia giants Facebook and Twitter are continuing to ignore warnings about accounts they know spread #COVID19 #misinformation . Read more in NewsGuard’s latest Misinformation Monitor.

Facebook and Twitter are still ignoring warnings about accounts they knew spread COVID-19 misinfo...

www.newsguardtech.com

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1 year

Read our full report

‘Blue Check’ Twitter Accounts are Flooding the Platform with False Claims - NewsGuard

www.newsguardtech.com

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5 years

New today: We are partnering with @LibrariesEU to bring NewsGuard’s media literacy service to European public libraries. #medialiteracy #publiclibraries #libraries Read the full release:

Public Libraries 2030 and NewsGuard Announce Partnership to Bring Media Literacy Tool to European...

(LONDON AND BRUSSELS—October 9. 2019) NewsGuard and Public Libraries 2030 are bringing NewsGuard’s Media Literacy Partnership Program to libraries in the UK, Germany, Italy, France, and Belgium....

www.newsguardtech.com

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We think humans just do a better job on certain things. That’s why NewsGuard invested in human review of news and information websites. Here’s how we do it:

Nieman Lab

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5 years

The notion that algorithms are neutral because math is involved is deeply flawed. Journalists need to step up to report on it.

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On Tuesday, a committee called "Enlightenment in the digital age" handed French president Macron a report on ways to fight disinformation and conspiracy theories. The report highlights the role of programmatic advertising in funding misinformation. 1/5

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NewsGuard is launching a tracking center focused on AI-enabled misinformation, which as of this week has found 150 ‘Unreliable AI-Generated News’ sites (UAINs). Learn more, and see original reporting related to AI content issues on our site.

Tracking AI-enabled Misinformation: Over 1000 ‘Unreliable AI-Generated News’ Websites (and Counti...

www.newsguardtech.com

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5 years

The @nytimes has a story today about Conservative Edition News, a site owned by former Fox News exec Ken Lacorte. The Times positioned its reporting on the site's ownership as a scoop. In fact, NewsGuard reported on this network of sites and its ties to Lacorte a month ago.

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@JimmyPatronis We at @NewsGuardRating understand the concerns of the Florida CFO, but his letter confuses NewsGuard with partisan services. We are apolitical and fully transparent. Please see our reply.

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Millennials in America are more likely to have visited a public library in the past year than any other adult generation. Read about how NewsGuard and libraries across the country are partnering to promote news literacy among young people:

Pew Research Center

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Millennials in America are more likely to have visited a public library in the past year than any other adult generation.

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NewsGuard has been partnering with libraries and schools across the country to promote news and media literacy. This Labor Day weekend, share NewsGuard () and our partnership handout () with the librarians and educators in your life!

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5 years

Acronym, a dark-money funder of the Iowa voting app, is also the secret funder of a national network claiming to be "local news sites" that are actually partisan pro-Democratic mouthpieces, such as Virginia Dogwood and Courier Newsroom. See our rating:

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2 years

NewsGuard has published two additional myths, and their debunks, to our Midterm Election Misinformation Tracking Center, tackling topics about how votes are counted, and allegations about “unverified” voters in Pennsylvania.

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Also in July’s Misinformation Monitor, we explore COVID-19 myths are becoming hand-me-down monkeypox myths, and how a sarcastic tweet turned into misinformation with some outlets

An Alternate Jan. 6 Universe; Hand-Me-Down Monkeypox Myths; How Sarcasm Turns To Misinformation -...

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5 years

NewsGuard announces UK Launch to tackle misinformation; @jimmy_wales , @AndersFoghR and @sambrook join global advisory board. Full details

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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

‘Blue Check’ Twitter Accounts are Flooding the Platform with False Claims - NewsGuard

www.newsguardtech.com

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