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Misinformation Monitor
December
AI is making misinformation better written, more persuasive, and more dangerous.
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Misinformation Monitor
November
NewsGuard identified ads for 86 major advertisers on viral X posts that advanced false or egregiously misleading claims about the conflict.
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Misinformation Monitor
October
A NewsGuard analysis found that X has become a superspreader of misinformation about the conflict by boosting falsehoods from sources that carry a blue checkmark.
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Misinformation Monitor
September
A NewsGuard review found that engagement spiked after X removed labels identifying state-run, disinformation-spreading accounts.
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Misinformation Monitor
August
NewsGuard has identified 37 sites that use artificial intelligence to repackage articles from mainstream news sources without providing credit.
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Misinformation Monitor
July
Target is “satanic,” Hobby Lobby sells “demon” merchandise, Barilla pasta is “made with insect flour”: Videos on TikTok advancing false and misleading claims about prominent brands garnered 57 million views in a NewsGuard analysis.
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Misinformation Monitor
June
NewsGuard identified 141 brands that are feeding programmatic ad dollars to low-quality AI-generated news and information sites operating with little to no human oversight.
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Misinformation Monitor
April
Twitter’s “blue check” used to signal author authenticity. Now, it's a way for peddlers of misinformation to appear trustworthy.
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Misinformation Monitor
March
The updated chatbot produces misinformation more frequently and persuasively than ChatGPT-3.5, despite its developer's promises.
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Misinformation Monitor
February
Full-length Russian propaganda films justifying the Ukraine war proliferate on YouTube, despite the platform’s ban on Russian state-funded media.
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Misinformation Monitor
January
We tempted the AI chatbot with 100 false narratives from our catalog of Misinformation Fingerprints. The AI chatbot delivered eloquent, false and misleading claims about significant topics in the news 80 percent of the time.
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Misinformation Monitor
November
NewsGuard found that TikTok hosts hundreds of videos using violence and music to celebrate the Wagner Group, a notorious Russian mercenary outfit.
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Misinformation Monitor
October
“Pink slime” newsrooms secretly backed by partisan donors are spending big on Facebook and Instagram ads in battleground states, taking advantage of the Meta platforms’ ad-targeting tools and advertising policies.
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Misinformation Monitor
September
Does mugwort induce abortion? Can and should I make hydroxychloroquine in my kitchen? Was the 2020 election stolen? Did Ukrainians fake the civilian deaths in Bucha? If you search on TikTok, you might think the answers to these questions are all, “Yes.”
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Misinformation Monitor
August
Through Trump’s reposts, verified accounts, and other methods, Truth Social has become an active booster of the online extremist movement.
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Misinformation Monitor
July
We explored how Newsmax has covered the Jan. 6 hearings, the recycling of COVID-19 myths, and how sarcasm can turn into misinformation in a tense political environment.
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Misinformation Monitor
June
We examined how Russian state television covers economic issues in the West and what it calls 'anti-Russian' sanctions, how misinformation proliferates in surprising ways in Canada, and how purveyors of COVID-19 misinformation are now trafficking in disinformation about the war in Ukraine.
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Misinformation Monitor
April
We explored how Chinese state-run Facebook pages have amplified Russian disinformation, propaganda on Russian state TV, and how state-run media outlets based in China, Venezuela and Belarus have rushed to fill RT and Sputnik's void on YouTube.
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Misinformation Monitor
March
TikTok is presenting false and misleading content about the war in Ukraine, including Kremlin propaganda, to users within 40 minutes of their signing up to the app.
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Misinformation Monitor
February
Many Red-rated websites in NewsGuard's database that use a .org domain are generally unreliable.
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Misinformation Monitor
January
Nearly 900 major brands are funding these sites with digital ads, despite widespread reporting on the problem.
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Misinformation Monitor
November
In this month’s Monitor, we explore how "superspreader" accounts on Facebook and Twitter are continuing to disseminate misinformation about COVID-19.
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Misinformation Monitor
September
In this month’s Monitor, we explore how children can find COVID-19 misinformation on the short-form video-sharing app TikTok within minutes.
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Misinformation Monitor
August
In this month’s Monitor, we explore how with less than a month until the election of a new government in Germany, misinformation about the upcoming federal elections is spreading on German social media, finding a niche mainly with conservative sites.
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Misinformation Monitor
July
In this month’s Monitor, we explore how The Gateway Pundit, a conservative news and commentary site with a history of publishing misinformation, has played an outsized role in promoting stories about the election audit in Arizona’s Maricopa County and has spread false claims about the process.
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