Misinformation Monitor
Welcome to the Misinformation Monitor, a free monthly newsletter covering misinformation, disinformation, and false news online with exclusive data from all the countries NewsGuard covers. Sign up to get the Misinformation Monitor in your inbox or download NewsGuard for your browser.
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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
In this month's monitor, we explore how GPT-4 produces misinformation more frequently and persuasively than its predecessor, despite its developer's promises.
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Misinformation Monitor
February
In this month's Monitor, we explore how Russian propaganda films justifying the war proliferate on YouTube, despite the platform’s ban on Russian state-funded media.
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Misinformation Monitor
January
In this month's monitor, we explore how ChatGPT can be used as a misinformation content generator.
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Misinformation Monitor
November
In this month's report, we explore how TikTok is hosting hundreds of videos using violence and music to celebrate the Wagner Group, a notorious Russian mercenary outfit.
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Misinformation Monitor
October
In this month's report, we explore how “pink slime” newsrooms secretly backed by partisan donors are spending big on Facebook and Instagram ads in battleground states.
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Misinformation Monitor
September
In this month's report, we explore how TikTok's search engine is regularly feeding false and misleading claims to its predominantly young user base.
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Misinformation Monitor
August
In this month's Monitor, we explore how Truth Social— through Trump’s reposts, verified accounts, and other methods—has become an active booster of QAnon.
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Misinformation Monitor
July
In this month's Monitor, we explore 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
In this month's Monitor, we examine 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
In this month’s Monitor, we explore 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
In this month’s Monitor, we explore how TikTok is feeding 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
In this month’s Monitor, we explore how many Red-rated websites in NewsGuard's database that use a .org domain are generally unreliable and how NPR reported a recent story about the U.S. Supreme Court.
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Misinformation Monitor
January
In this month’s Monitor, we explore how NewsGuard Red-rated websites have continued to spread misinformation about the 2020 U.S. election and the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol.
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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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