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03/15/2021The Lenfest Institute: A new report shows how partisan websites are eroding trust in legitimate local news sites in Pennsylvania. This is how we can restore faith in local journalism

03/12/2021Associated Press: Defying rules, anti-vaccine accounts thrive on social media

03/12/2021Al Jazeera: The battle to stop the spread of vaccine misinformation online

03/11/2021POLITICO Digital Bridge: COVID-19 disinformation

03/11/2021POLITICO: Big Tech’s trying to stop coronavirus misinformation. It’s not enough.

03/04/2021The Verge: Far-right news and misinformation received the most engagement on Facebook during 2020 US election

03/04/2021Washington Post: Far-right sources on Facebook get more engagement than any other political posts, study finds

03/03/2021Protocol: The most engaging political news on Facebook? Far-right misinformation.

03/03/2021CNN: Right-wing misinformation on Facebook is more engaging than its left-wing counterpart, research finds

03/03/2021WIRED: Fake News Gets More Engagement on Facebook—But Only If It’s Right-Wing

03/03/2021Gizmodo: Study: Far-Right Propaganda Gets the Most Engagement on Facebook, Especially When It’s Lies

03/03/2021USA Today: What’s popular on Facebook? Extreme far right political views and lies, study says

03/03/2021CyberScoop: Far-right misinformation on Facebook outranks real news

02/22/2021VICE: QAnon Is So Big in France That Even the Government Is Worried

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02/22/2021WELT: “What we are currently seeing will make democracies around the world healthier”

02/19/2021City A.M.: Australian Facebook ban: A political gamble gone terribly wrong

02/19/2021Forbes: A Much-Needed Service: NewsGuard Cracks Down On Fake News

02/19/2021B&T: Over 4,000 Brands Bought Programmatic Ads On COVID-19 Misinformation Websites

02/19/2021AdExchanger: Brands Have Been Funding False COVID Info

02/19/2021Rantt: Russian State-Media Aligns With GOP Messaging After Capitol Attack

02/19/2021The German Marshall Fund of the United States: How the Disinformation Supply Chain Created a Deceptive Narrative about the Texas Blackout

02/18/2021Ad Age: Thousands of brands are running ads next to COVID vaccine misinformation: Thursday Wake-Up Call

02/18/2021Newsweek: The Funding of False Facts—Advertising Money is Fueling Conspiracy Theories | Opinion

02/18/2021CyberScoop: Misinformation flooded Parler around Capitol insurrection, research finds

02/18/2021Next TV: How Comcast, Verizon and Pepsi Ended Up Sponsoring Russian-backed COVID Misinformation Sites

02/18/2021PR Daily: Thousands of brands’ ads found on sites with COVID-19 misinformation, Facebook labels UK climate change posts, and job listing language leads to museum’s leadership change

02/18/2021Fortune: The news Down Under

02/18/2021PuroMarketing: New problem for programmatic advertising: Over the past year advertisers ‘paid’ for misinformation about the coronavirus with their ads

02/17/2021STAT: Look who’s advertising on Covid misinformation sites

02/17/2021Business Insider: More than 4,000 advertisers including Pfizer, Walmart, and even the CDC ran ads alongside vaccine misinformation

02/17/2021Protocol: A Macedonian misinformation site dominated Parler before the Capitol riot

02/17/2021O'Dwyer's: Blame blue-chip company support for COVID-19 hoax sites on programmatic advertising

02/17/2021Becker's Hospital Review: Health system, CDC ads found on COVID-19 misinformation sites

02/13/2021Greater Milwaukee Today: Twitter, Facebook had even more deceptive news in 2020, study says

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02/12/2021Public Knowledge: How an Internet Superfund Could Clean Up Vaccine Disinformation That Threatens Our COVID-19 Recovery

02/12/2021MediaPowerMonitor: How Advertisers Put Democracy in Danger by Enabling Disinformation

02/12/2021Terra: Gina Carano to make film with far right website

02/10/2021PRWeek: The Vaccine Project Newsletter: Fighting the virus, the bureaucracy and the naysayers

02/04/2021KJZZ Phoenix: Court TV Founder Targets COVID-19 Misinformation With New Project

02/03/2021Leeds Live: The real reason people spread Covid conspiracy theories

02/03/2021WebMD: New Campaign Fights Vaccine Disinformation

02/02/2021PA Media: Coronavirus misinformation tool launched to flag misleading health claims

02/01/2021The Washington Post: Opinion: Facebook and Twitter can do something about deceptive news. So why don’t they?

01/29/2021Evening Standard: Time to curb the fake news running riot on social media

01/28/2021The Sun: Far-right conspiracy QAnon surging in Europe as fanatics plot return of Nazi Reich and link Satanists to Jimmy Savile

01/28/2021Bloomberg: Twitter, Facebook Had Even More Deceptive News in 2020, Study Says

01/27/2021BR24: “Infodemic”: These are the driving forces behind Fake News about Corona

01/27/2021Ofcom: Understanding online false information in the UK

01/25/2021Scripps TV: Fake political news is growing, so how can you spot the misinformation?

01/25/2021Phys.org: Social media bans, restrictions have mixed impact on potential misinformation following Capitol riot

01/22/2021infosperber: On the hunt for misinformation

01/22/2021Michigan News: Social media bans, restrictions have mixed impact on potential misinformation following Capitol riot

01/21/2021Britannica for Parents: “How do we find the truth about vaccines?”

01/20/2021Marketing Brew: Omnicom, Home Depot Face Shareholder Resolutions Over Ad Channel Disputes

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01/19/2021Ad Age: Home Depot and Omnicom shareholders probe misinformation, and brands prepare for Inauguration Day: Tuesday Wake-Up Call

01/18/2021The New York Times: Investors Push Home Depot and Omnicom to Steer Ads From Misinformation

01/18/2021Business Insider: The Trump administration gave more than $850,000 in PPP loans to prominent anti-vaccine groups

01/15/2021Strategic Health Care Marketing: Fighting the Infodemic – How a Browser Extension Separates Fact from Fiction

01/14/2021Axios: Exclusive: Over 1,000 brands ran ads alongside election misinformation

01/14/2021Protocol: Google says it’s fighting election lies, but its programmatic ads are funding them

01/14/2021Newsweek: Disney, Procter & Gamble, Other Trusted Brands Funded Misinformation that Fueled Capitol Riot

01/14/2021Radio.com: New tool alerts you to online misinformation

01/13/2021The Washington Post: Three steps to help treat America’s debilitating information disorder

01/12/2021New York Post: Political unrest to dampen ad spending for news sites, experts say

01/07/2021The Washington Post: Trump’s ‘stop the steal’ message finds an international audience among conspiracy theorists and suspected cults

01/07/2021The World: Conspiracy theories and the storming of the Capitol

01/06/2021The Guardian: Misinformation ‘superspreaders’: Covid vaccine falsehoods still thriving on Facebook and Instagram

01/03/2021CNN: 2020’s alternative universe is not going away

12/26/2020Financial Times: ‘Rudderless’ QAnon may reinvent itself after US election, warn experts

12/23/2020NPR: The Toll Of Conspiracy Theories: A Voting Security Expert Lives In Hiding

12/23/2020Euronews: US election misinformation continues to go viral online (MP4 video file)

12/22/2020Axios: “Unreliable” news sources got more traction in 2020

12/22/2020The New York Times: Misinformation Amplifiers Target Georgia Senate Races

12/22/2020PolitiFact: Vaccine misinformation: preparing for infodemic’s ‘second wave’

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12/22/2020Vox: America’s growing fake news problem, in one chart

12/21/2020Politico: Why social media hasn’t been able to shut down vaccine misinformation

12/18/2020The New York Times: QAnon is still spreading on Facebook, despite a ban

12/17/2020MediaPost: Making A List, Checking It Twice: Here’s The Year’s Most Misinforming Sites

12/16/2020New York Times: From Voter Fraud to Vaccine Lies, Misinformation Peddlers Shift Gears

12/16/2020Harvard Nieman Lab: NewsGuard general manager says collective effort needed to curb misinformation

12/15/2020Scripps TV: Debunking COVID-19 vaccine myths

12/15/2020BBC Digital Planet: Dispelling COVID-19 vaccine myths online

12/11/2020Australian Associated Press: Reports spread misinformation on Pfizer vaccine trial deaths

12/11/2020Coda: The top 10 wildest anti-vaccination theories and why a COVID-19 shot won’t alter your DNA

12/10/2020Canton Daily Ledger: We increasingly need ‘media literacy’

12/10/2020Harvard Nieman Lab: NewsGuard co-CEO predicts common law will finally apply to digital platforms in 2021

12/09/2020The Washington Post: Facebook removes some pages appearing to coordinate to push health misinformation

12/08/2020Euronews: Election misinformation isn’t an American phenomenon – it’s spreading across Europe, too

12/03/2020The Telegraph: The British start-ups battling a tidal wave of fake news and conspiracies

12/03/2020Euronews: Facebook vows to tackle vaccine misinformation on its platform

12/03/2020Financial Times: Facebook vows to remove false claims about Covid-19 vaccines

12/03/2020Wall Street Journal: Facebook to Remove Covid-19 Vaccine Misinformation From Platforms

12/03/2020ABC (Australia): Why you shouldn’t believe that story about a man being choked unconscious for not wearing a mask

12/03/2020New York Post: Relentlessly pro-Trump sites saw big gains leading up to 2020 election

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12/01/2020Foreign Affairs: Francis Fukuyama proposes a transparent “middleware service” to replace digital platforms’ secret algorithms

11/30/2020John Battelle's Searchblog: How marketers can help restore trust by supporting journalism

11/26/2020RFI: Podcast: Working from home, QAnon spreads to France, when church and state split

11/24/2020USA TODAY: OAN, touted by Donald Trump for its ‘Great News,’ suspended from YouTube for COVID-19 misinformation

11/23/2020The Washington Post: Republicans and others offer tips on how to rebut millions of ‘election deniers’

11/20/2020Associated Press: NOT REAL NEWS: A look at what didn’t happen this week

11/19/2020MSN: A new anti-vaccine misinformation task force is being set up in the UK

11/19/2020AiThority: Trend Micro Tackles Misinformation And Fraud With Free Tool

11/18/2020MediaPost: This Just In… IPG Mediabrands Brings NewsGuard To U.S. Media Buys

11/18/2020IT Pro: Trend Micro’s free web-based tool takes on hackers and fake news

11/16/2020Politico EU: UK gears up for coronavirus anti-vax battle

11/12/2020The New York Times: One America News spreads debunked elections claims

11/12/2020European Media & Regulation: Transparency and trust: The user’s perspective in online content navigation

11/10/2020The Times: Antivax Cyberwar

11/09/2020Ad Tech Daily: Guaranteeing Brand Safety: Meetrics and NewsGuard Announce Innovative Partnership

11/09/2020ExchangeWire: Guaranteeing Brand Safety: Meetrics & NewsGuard Announce Innovative Partnership

11/06/2020Politico: Europe’s QAnon followers embrace US election conspiracy theories

11/03/2020NPR: Voting Security Has Come A Long Way Since 2016 — But Vulnerabilities Remain

11/03/2020Research Live: Meetrics and NewsGuard Launch Anti-Fake News Tool

11/02/2020HealthExec: Facebook still providing safe spaces for COVID misinformers

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11/02/2020WGN News: Pair of Chicago journalists work on cure for the ‘infodemic’ of misinformation

10/31/2020ConnectSafely Report: Facebook accused of allowing spread of fake vaccine information

10/31/2020WGN News: 4 things to watch out for on Election Day

10/30/2020TIME: How to Spot Disinformation Around Election Day—And What to Do About It

10/30/2020WGN News: Taking a look at the spread of misinformation about vaccines on social media

10/29/2020Newsweek: Facebook Is a ‘Super Spreader’ of Election Misinformation

10/29/2020New York Post: Facebook accounts with large reach contained misinformation about COVID vaccine: report

10/28/2020Insider: 40 Facebook pages identified as ‘super-spreaders’ of election misinformation are reaching millions of users

10/27/2020Axios: Pre-bunking rises ahead of the 2020 election

10/23/2020Euronews: QAnon in Europe: How the COVID pandemic helped promote a dangerous conspiracy theory

10/22/2020The New York Times: How the WHO uses NewsGuard alerts to warn social media companies about healthcare hoaxes they’re spreading

10/21/2020Financial Times: NewsGuard exposes networks of partisan websites masquerading as local news sites, successfully evading rules set by Facebook, Twitter and others

10/20/2020Apple News Today podcast: Inside the partisan websites posing as local media

10/19/2020The Wall Street Journal: Partisan Sites Posing as Local News Expand Ahead of Election

10/16/2020The World: QAnon’s global reach

10/15/2020Financial Times: Local news is drowning in ‘pink slime’ ahead of US election

10/15/2020CNBC: Big Tech backlash over response to NY Post story—Here’s what it means for disinformation campaigns

10/13/2020Anders Fogh Rasmussen, former Secretary General of NATO: New Technologies Can Strengthen Democracies

10/12/2020The New York Times: On Facebook, Misinformation Is More Popular Now Than in 2016

10/12/2020ABC News: More people engage with verifiably false news outlets on Facebook now than in 2016

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10/12/2020Foreign Policy: QAnon’s Sound and Fury

10/11/2020National Review: Liberal Fake News Site Spends Millions to Target Facebook Users in Battleground Districts

10/06/2020prmagazin: How company reputations are put at risk by NewsGuard’s red-rated news websites

10/03/2020C-SPAN: TechFreedom urges social media platforms to use NewsGuard to explain the trustworthiness of news sites

09/28/2020Modern Healthcare: 4 tips to tackle COVID-19 misinformation

09/22/2020FOX 32: NewsGuard teams up with Mount Sinai Health System to fight misinformation online

09/21/2020Vox Recode: How to guard your social feeds against election misinformation

09/15/2020AFP: Covid a ‘catalyst’ for QAnon’s rise in Europe

09/15/2020Axios: New tool against the “infodemic”

09/12/2020Financial Times: Defying crackdowns, QAnon continues its relentless global spread

09/12/2020The Hill: QAnon spreads across globe, shadowing COVID-19

09/08/2020Slate: How QAnon Went Global

09/07/2020The New York Times: Trump Emerges as Inspiration for Germany’s Far Right

09/01/2020Microsoft On the Issues: New Steps to Combat Disinformation

08/15/2020WEALTHTRACK: Internet Disinformation

08/14/2020Coda: Now QAnon’s conspiracy theories are taking root across Europe

08/05/2020FOX 32: Teaching kids news literacy during the tricky time of remote learning

08/03/2020Chicago Sun-Times: Teaching kids news literacy could be a matter of life and death

07/30/2020CNN: A baseless US conspiracy theory found a foothold in Europe. New research shows how

07/30/2020Euronews: QAnon theories are merging with European conspiracies: report

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07/24/2020District Administration: Fact from fiction: Teaching students to recognize fake news

07/06/2020Forbes: Big Advertisers Still Fund Hate And Disinformation Outside Of Facebook

07/01/2020Peoria Magazine: Protect Yourself From Fake News

06/29/2020Kaiser Health News: Conflicting COVID Messages Create Cloud Of Confusion Around Public Health And Prevention

06/27/2020The Information: Here’s an Idea for Advertisers Leaving Facebook—Support News

06/25/2020Vox: Facebook’s war against one of the internet’s worst conspiracy sites

06/18/2020Newsweek: False stories about “paid protesters” spike — again — in effort to delegitimize Black Lives Matter protests

06/03/2020The Economist: Fake news is fooling more conservatives than liberals. Why?

06/01/2020The Simplicity Principle: Truth & Trust In The Media

06/01/2020Tech Transparency Project: Google is Profiting from Coronavirus Conspiracy Sites

05/27/2020Vox: Tech billionaires are plotting sweeping, secret plans to boost Joe Biden

05/27/2020NPR: Social Media Usage Is At An All-Time High. That Could Mean A Nightmare For Democracy

05/26/2020TechDecisions: Why Real, Trusted, Verified News Should Matter To Your Organization

05/22/2020Newsweek: Major Republican and Democratic campaign organizations are using shady “news” sites to spread political propaganda

05/20/2020POLITICO: COVID-19 misinformation widely shared on Twitter: report

05/17/2020The Week: The coronavirus infodemic

05/14/2020ZDNet: NewsGuard becomes free for all Microsoft Edge users

05/14/2020MediaPost: Microsoft To Give Edge Browser Users Access To NewsGuard Tools

05/14/2020TechDecisions: NewsGuard, Now Free on Microsoft Edge, Can Help You Make Informed Decisions

05/08/2020Corriere della Sera: Coronavirus and fake news, Facebook “stops” 9 of the 10 pages that have spread fake news in Italy

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05/07/2020The New York Times: News Outlets Want More Advertisers to Act Like Burger King

05/07/2020Financial Times: Twitter failing to curb misinformation ‘superspreaders’, NewsGuard report warns

05/07/2020CBC Radio: The conspiracy theory that COVID-19 is connected to 5G cellphone networks spreads to Canada

05/06/2020euronews: Coronavirus: ‘Super-spreaders’ of COVID-19 misinformation on Facebook identified

05/05/2020POLITICO: In Europe, COVID-19 misinformation runs rife on Facebook: report

05/04/2020ZDNet: NewsGuard fights war against misinformation by enlisting millions of home-bound students

05/04/2020The Daily Star: Critical thinking key to media literacy

05/01/2020The German Marshall Fund: The Rise of the Parapolitical Sites as the Leading False-Content Producers

04/28/2020Axios: What experts say works for combating coronavirus misinformation

04/28/2020EdWeek Market Brief: Former Education Secretary Arne Duncan joins NewsGuard’s Advisory Board

04/24/2020Vox: How the 5G coronavirus conspiracy theory went from fringe to mainstream

04/23/2020HealthNewsReview.org: Shining a light on super-spreaders of coronavirus misinformation

04/21/2020Beet.TV: In Covid Crisis, Hoax Sites Proliferate, NewsGuard’s Steve Brill

04/21/2020MediaPost: Watchdog: Facebook Remains Riddled With COVID-19 Untruths

04/20/2020The Wall Street Journal: Coronavirus Misinformation Spreads on Facebook, Watchdog Says

04/07/2020Scripps TV: Internet trust tool tracking the spread of misinformation about coronavirus

04/06/2020MediaPost: How Publishers Can Avoid Keyword Blocking

04/03/2020ExchangeWire: Peer39 and NewsGuard partner to help brands avoid fake news and untrustworthy sites

04/02/2020Amobee: Supporting Journalism During COVID-19

04/02/2020MediaPost: NewsGuard Offers Database Of COVID-19 Misinformation Sites To Protect Credible News Sites From Blacklisting

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03/31/2020Tech Times: Government Approved App Named NewsGuard to Help Deter Spread of Fake News Amidst Coronavirus Pandemic

03/30/2020The Telegraph: Coronavirus fake news ‘could cost lives’, Culture Secretary warns

03/30/2020Forbes: UK Government Launches Unit To Deal With Fake Coronavirus News

03/30/2020The Telegraph: Where did fake news of the UK alcohol ban come from?

03/30/2020E&T: Spreading Covid-19 deception should be an offence, says Tory MP

03/30/2020Good Housekeeping: The coronavirus scams you need to know about

03/29/2020UK Press Association: Online filtering service backed in fight against Covid-19 ‘fake news’

03/29/2020The Guardian: UK anti-fake news unit dealing with up to 10 false coronavirus articles a day

03/29/2020Daily Mail: Online filtering service backed in fight against Covid-19 ‘fake news’

03/24/2020ZDNet: NewsGuard drops its paywall to combat coronavirus misinformation

03/24/2020New York Post: NewsGuard busts websites sharing fake coronavirus information

03/24/2020WGN 9: Fact or Fiction on COVID-19 and the stimulus package

03/24/2020FOX 32: Coronavirus news: What’s real and what’s fake?

03/20/2020The New Indian Express: COVID-19: Break the fake chain

03/20/2020American Libraries: Fighting Fake News in the Pandemic

03/19/2020Wired: NewsGuard tracked how a Coronavirus hoax went viral

03/19/2020Reuters: Coronavirus conspiracies go viral on Whatsapp as crisis deepens

03/19/2020S&P Global Market Intelligence: Social media giants face balancing act for tackling coronavirus misinformation

03/16/2020NPR "Morning Edition": NewsGuard Editor Warns of Dangerous COVID-19 Misinformation

03/13/2020Mercury News: Tools to help identify real vs. false online information

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03/13/2020The Star Tribune: Debunking viral virus myths, facts and resources

03/09/2020The New York Times: Surge of Virus Misinformation Stumps Facebook and Twitter

03/09/2020The Australian: News fact checker coming to Oz

03/07/2020WGN-TV: The rise of COVID-19 also means a rise in misinformation — an expert weighs in

03/06/2020Fox 32 Chicago: Combating the coronavirus ‘infodemic’ (video)

03/04/2020BBC Newsnight: Coronavirus and fake news – what to believe? (video)

03/04/2020CTV News Vancouver: Medical expert warns of ‘harmful’ products touted as COVID-19 cures

03/03/2020ZDNet: Coronavirus misinformation spreading fast: Fake news on COVID-19 shared far more than CDC, WHO reports

02/28/2020STAT: The coronavirus ‘infodemic’ is real. We rated the websites responsible for it

02/26/2020ZDNet: NewsGuard Technologies launches Coronavirus Misinformation Tracking Center

02/26/2020Forbes: Tracking Center Reveals Coronavirus Lies

02/26/2020The Australian: Fake news infecting health and politics

02/26/2020The Boston Globe: Coronavirus scams are infecting the Internet, but social-media sites are fighting back

02/26/2020CBS News Radio: Larry Magid speaks with Newsguard co-founders Steven Brill and Gordon Crovitz (audio)

02/25/2020CBS News Radio: Get the truth & avoid misinformation about the Corona Virus

02/24/2020The Times: How to help stem the tide of disinformation

02/19/2020Financial Times: The uncomfortable truth about fake news

02/14/2020Rockford Register Star: Illinois library director among global soldiers fighting ‘fake news’

02/13/2020CPTV: Fake: Searching for Truth in the Age of Misinformation

02/11/2020ZDNet: 2020 election news survival guide: Keep your sanity and your friends with these three apps

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02/06/2020The Washington Post: Is it local journalism, or just local propaganda?

01/30/2020Chicago Tribune: Commentary: The web is festering with dubious info about the coronavirus (and other health issues)

01/24/2020KWBU: Business of Health Care: Unfounded Health Claims

01/21/2020The New York Times: How Amazon, Geico and Walmart Fund Propaganda

01/18/2020Newsweek: New Analysis Finds Americans’ Engagement with Suspect News Sources on the Rise

01/17/2020The Boston Globe: Survey says: Many Americans love their fake news

12/26/2019The Philadelphia Citizen: The Cure for Fake News?

12/19/2019Nieman Lab: Fighting misinformation requires journalism, not secret algorithms

12/01/2019The Conversation: Expert ratings provided by NewsGuard are effective at reducing the spread of propaganda and disinformation

11/20/2019Journalism.co.uk: How can quality journalism thrive at a time of news deserts, misinformation and clickbait?

11/16/2019The State Journal-Register: Library in Springfield, Illinois, launches ‘internet trust tool’

11/15/2019Columbia Journalism Review: NewsGuard participates in Columbia Journalism Review discussion of fact checking

11/12/2019Columbia Journalism Review: Columbia Journalism Review on the effectiveness of NewsGuard ratings and labels

11/11/2019Evening Standard: General election 2019: The battle for your newsfeed

11/10/2019WLRN: County Commission That Denied New York Times Subscription Claiming Fake News Faces Backlash

11/01/2019American Libraries: Check Your Facts: Libraries use tech tools to fight fake news

10/29/2019Press Gazette: News websites rated ‘red’ by Newsguard could miss out on ad money after agency deal

10/03/2019The Australian: NewsGuard shines a red light on fake news sources

09/18/2019Microsoft President Praises NewsGuard in Q&A

08/11/2019Beyond the Book: NewsGuard Takes on Fake News with Real Journalism

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08/08/2019Multichannel News: Cable Industry Veteran Leo Hindery, Jr., Becomes An Investor In Newsguard

07/31/2019MediaPost: Study: 11% Of News Websites Spread False Health Information

07/31/2019Fox 32: NewsGuard helps sift fact from fiction among online media (video)

07/26/2019STAT: Health websites are notoriously misleading. So we rated their reliability

07/24/2019Cablefax: YouGov research shows how internet and mobile phone providers can add value to their customers with NewsGuard

07/23/2019Michigan News: University of Michigan researchers switch to use NewsGuard News Website Reliability Index

06/06/2019European Journalism Observatory: NewsGuard’s “news trust” ratings rolled out to Europe

06/04/2019Press Gazette: US news ranking tool Newsguard appoints Conservative MP to advisory board

05/07/2019The Atlantic: NewsGuard “works smoothly” and “the ratings are sensible and well explained”

04/24/2019The Guardian: Untrustworthy news sites could be flagged automatically in UK

04/24/2019Press Gazette: US start-up Newsguard rolls out trust rankings for major UK newsbrands

04/24/2019Press Association: ‘Fake news’ detection tool launches in UK

04/24/2019Karma Network: Sarah Brandt: NewsGuard “had the idea that the best way to solve a journalistic problem was by using journalism”

04/08/2019Library Journal: Toledo Lucas County Installs News Literacy Browser Extension

03/04/2019Lawfare: NewsGuard Takes on Fake News

02/19/2019The National: Regulation alone won’t be enough to rid us of fake news

02/17/2019The Daily Caller: CROVITZ: NewsGuard Treats News Equally — Whether It’s Left, Right Or Center

02/16/2019i24NEWS: Man Bites Dog’s Interview with NewsGuard’s General Manager (video)

02/15/2019WBUR/NPR's "Here & Now": Companies That Sift Through False News Online Are Creating A New ‘Trust Industry’

02/15/2019Public Knowledge: Public Knowledge urges Silicon Valley to follow Microsoft’s lead by providing NewsGuard ratings and write ups to their users

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02/12/2019Campaign: Cairncross Report calls for UK regulation of digital platforms

02/11/2019www.parliament.uk: British MP Damian Collins calls on digital platforms to make NewsGuard available to identify “unreliable sources”

02/10/2019The Blade: Toledo library adds program for web, news literacy

02/07/2019The Christian Science Monitor: Can old-fashioned journalism combat fake news?

02/04/2019WTTW11: Browser Extension Rates News Sites Based on Journalistic Standards

02/03/2019The Wall Street Journal: Site Behind Northam Revelations Is Backed by GOP Operatives

02/01/2019Reuters: NewsGuard’s ‘real news’ seal of approval helps spark change in fake news era

01/31/2019The New York Times: Want to Stop Fake News? Pay for the Real Thing

01/31/2019CNET: Fake news spotter: How to enable Microsoft Edge’s NewsGuard

01/31/2019MediaPost: 500 Websites Improved Trust Practices Through Rating Process

01/31/2019POLITICO: Pro Morning Tech: Jourová on privacy — Information on disinformation — Schaake’s question

01/27/2019Newsweek: Microsoft Installing App on Edge Browser That Helps Detect Fake News

01/25/2019Fox News: NewsGuard “is a good idea…pretty right down the middle…there’s accountability…that’s pretty profound.”

01/25/2019Slate: Just Trust Us

01/23/2019The Guardian: Don’t trust Daily Mail website, Microsoft browser warns users

01/23/2019The Verge: Microsoft is trying to fight fake news with its Edge mobile browser

01/23/2019Engadget: Microsoft’s mobile Edge browser begins issuing fake news warnings

01/23/2019WTOL 11: New program at Toledo Lucas Co. Library downloads program to filter accurate news

01/23/2019TechCrunch: Microsoft Edge on mobile now includes a built-in fake news detector

01/18/2019The Daily Signal: NewsGuard ‘Nutrition Label’ Ratings of News Sites Popular

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01/17/2019The Blade: New literacy program at Toledo libraries

01/16/2019The New York Times: Veterans of the News Business Are Now Fighting Fakes

01/16/2019Forbes: NewsGuard Gets A Leg Up In The War On Real Fake News

01/15/2019Folio: Gaining Traction With Consumers and Platforms, NewsGuard Draws Scrutiny From RT, WikiLeaks

01/09/2019Wired: Here’s What Happens When News Comes With a Nutrition Label

12/17/2018Big Island Now: Libraries Join NewsGuard in News Literacy Partnership

12/12/2018LocalMediaInsider: NewsGuard’s trust initiative shows early promise

12/06/2018Politico: Health Warnings For News?

11/19/2018The Daily Signal: How to Tell If the News Is Reliable (podcast)

11/19/2018Adweek: This Startup Uses Old-School Journalism to Expose Fake News

11/07/2018Editor & Publisher: NewsGuard Creates Ratings System to See if Websites Provide Legitimate News or Misinformation

11/02/2018Tech+Life: Guardians of the (Online) Galaxy

10/31/2018The Boston Globe: New tool helps stand guard against fake news

10/26/2018C-SPAN: Steven Brill on Distinguishing Between Journalism and “Fake News”

10/16/2018The Hill: Finding common ground in rating media

09/18/2018Yale Daily News: Yale alums combat “fake news” with startup

09/14/2018ProMarket: Journalism Over Algorithms: How One Company Is Attempting to Combat Fake News

08/27/2018Bloomberg: How NewsGuard Helps Consumers Fight Fake News (video)

08/23/2018Axios: NewsGuard launches first product with help from Microsoft

08/23/2018Wired: NewsGuard Wants to Fight Fake News With Humans, Not Algorithms

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08/23/2018Microsoft: Defending against disinformation in partnership with NewsGuard

08/23/2018Axios AM: Situational Awareness

04/19/2018Politico: NewsGuard Expands with Veteran Journalists from New York Times and AP

04/10/2018Folio: Inside Steven Brill and Gordon Crovitz’s War on Fake News

04/05/2018C-SPAN: Steve Brill on Journalism and “Fake News”

03/20/2018MSNBC: This entrepreneur says he has the secret to stopping fake news on Facebook

03/15/2018Daily Signal: With NewsGuard, 2 Longtime Journalists Enlist in War on Fake News

03/08/2018Bill O’Reilly No Spin News: NewsGuard Technologies to Release Website to combat Fake News

03/07/2018Business Insider: The former publisher of the Wall Street Journal says Facebook and Google don’t really want to be the ones solving their fake news problem — so he hopes to do it for them

03/07/2018CNBC: News Guard tackling ‘fake news’ epidemic

03/06/2018The Observer: Can Human Journalists Beat Algorithms at Sniffing Out Fake News?

03/06/2018MediaPost: Why NewsGuard, Aimed At Fighting Fake News, Won’t Work

03/05/2018CBS: New venture aims to combat “fake news” on social media with warning labels

03/05/2018Axios: Coming this fall: ‘nutrition labels’ for news

03/05/2018Ad Week: Will This Rating Platform Really Protect Your Brand From Fake News?

03/05/2018Nieman Labs: This new initiative deploys humans to review, research, and rate U.S. news sites

03/05/2018MSNBC: Veteran Journalist launching new venture to weed out ‘fake news’

03/05/2018MediaPost: Brill, Crovitz Launch NewsGuard To Rate Sources, Fight Fake News

03/05/2018Washington Examiner: Steve Brill’s plan: How not to address the fake news problem

03/04/2018The Wall Street Journal: A New Business Takes On Fake News

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03/04/2018CNN: This start-up wants to evaluate your news sources

03/03/2018Washington Post: A journalistic fix for fake news? A new venture seeks to take on the epidemic.

Press Release

05/05/2021Statement by NewsGuard on Today’s Facebook Oversight Board Ruling

03/30/2021NewsGuard Announces ‘Responsible Advertising for News Segments’ Menu to Allow Brands to Stop Funding Misinformation While Restoring Ads to Quality News Publishers, Including Sites Serving Minority Communities and Local News Sites

02/03/2021NewsGuard Launches VaxFacts Campaign to Counter Hoaxes About COVID-19 Vaccines and Other Healthcare Misinformation

12/03/2020Statement from NewsGuard co-CEOs Steven Brill and Gordon Crovitz on Facebook’s Promise to Remove COVID-19 Vaccine Misinformation from its Platform

11/18/2020NewsGuard and IPG Mediabrands expand partnership to help advertisers in the U.S. and Europe advertise on trustworthy news sites while avoiding misinformation

11/18/2020Trend Micro Becomes First Cybersecurity Company to License NewsGuard Ratings, Protecting Its Customers from Misinformation

11/17/2020NewsGuard Tracks Large Increase in Number of Sites Publishing False Voting Content Following Election Day; Tally Climbs to 122

11/02/2020Guaranteeing Brand Safety: Meetrics & NewsGuard announce innovative partnership

10/30/2020The Social Media Platforms Say They Can’t Keep Up With the Volume of Hoaxes. Now, They Can

10/28/2020NewsGuard Proposes a Simple Reform to Protect Online Users from Hoaxes, Misinformation and Other Harms

10/22/2020NewsGuard teams up with Microsoft to create media literacy quiz

10/01/2020Dr. Kavita Patel Joins NewsGuard’s Global Advisory Board

09/25/2020Proposed Law Would Create New Duty of Care for the Digital Platforms, Including Transparency, Disclosure and a Requirement to Engage with Publishers

09/14/2020Mount Sinai Health System and NewsGuard Join Forces to Combat Health Misinformation

08/24/2020NewsGuard Statement: WHO Partnership

08/18/2020NewsGuard wins Pentagon-State Department contest for detecting COVID-19 misinformation and disinformation

07/31/2020NewsGuard Partners with BT to provide UK audiences with Online Misinformation Tool

07/20/2020TripleLift Forges Partnership With Newsguard As Ad Industry Confronts The Funding Of Misinformation Sites

07/08/2020pressrelations, Fraunhofer FKIE, and NewsGuard Join Forces to Detect Disinformation

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06/09/2020NewsGuard launches iOS app, bringing its Nutrition Labels for news sites to iPhones and iPads

06/02/2020NewsGuard Launches HealthGuard, a New Tool to Protect Against Online Health Care Hoaxes

06/01/2020NewsGuard launches Android app, bringing its Nutrition Labels for news sites to users’ mobile devices

05/14/2020Microsoft Expands NewsGuard Adoption

05/04/2020Turnitin Partners with NewsGuard to Offer Students and Teachers its Media Literacy Tools

04/24/2020Arne Duncan Joins NewsGuard’s Global Advisory Board

04/21/2020Brigitte Trafford Joins NewsGuard’s Global Advisory Board

04/10/2020NewsGuard in cooperation with IPG Mediabrands UK help brands keep their ads off of COVID-19 misinformation websites while funding credible journalism

04/02/2020NewsGuard joins WHO-backed campaign against COVID-19 misinformation, offers data to help advertisers target trustworthy sites

04/02/2020Peer39 and NewsGuard partner to help brands avoid fake news and untrustworthy sites

03/27/2020NewsGuard Partners with DCMS and BT to Help Counter Spread of COVID-19 Fake News as Misinformation Peaks

03/24/2020A Statement from NewsGuard about COVID-19

03/03/2020106 Sites in the U.S. and Europe Now Promoting Coronavirus Misinformation

02/25/2020NewsGuard Launches Coronavirus Misinformation Tracking Center

02/12/2020Milan Library System becomes first Italian library to join global NewsGuard media literacy partnership

02/12/2020German Marshall Fund and NewsGuard Partner to Study Misinformation and Inform Solutions

12/10/2019EBLIDA and NewsGuard Announce Partnership to Bring Media Literacy Tool to European Public Libraries

11/20/2019NewsGuard Kite Marks Rate the Reliability of News Websites, Without Creating the Risk of Government Licensing of News Publishers

11/13/2019NewsGuard Debuts News Website Reliability Index, Creating the First Benchmark for Measuring News Reliability and Media Consumption Habits

10/30/2019IPG Mediabrands Partners With NewsGuard To Bring ‘Human Intelligence’ To Brand Safety, Enabling Advertisers To Support Journalism

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10/24/2019Cologne City Library Becomes First NewsGuard Library Partner In Germany

10/09/2019Public Libraries 2030 and NewsGuard Announce Partnership to Bring Media Literacy Tool to European Public Libraries

09/23/2019Special Report: Inside NewsGuard’s First Year Fighting Misinformation

08/08/2019Cable Industry Veteran Leo Hindery, Jr., Becomes an Investor in NewsGuard

07/30/2019More than 10% of the news websites Americans rely on spread misinformation about health issues such as vaccines

07/23/2019University of Michigan’s Iffy Quotient shows steady drop of questionable information on social media, partners with NewsGuard for better data

06/04/2019Ed Vaizey, MP, Joins Global Advisory Board of NewsGuard to Support Its Efforts to Counter Misinformation Online

04/24/2019NewsGuard Announces UK Launch to Tackle Misinformation Online

01/31/2019More Than 500 Websites Improve their Journalism Trust Practices Through NewsGuard’s Rating Process

01/16/2019NewsGuard Now Available on Microsoft Edge Mobile Apps for iOS and Android

01/16/2019Toledo Lucas County Public Library Joins NewsGuard in News Literacy Partnership

01/09/2019Gallup Research Finds NewsGuard Ratings of News Websites Effective in Countering False Information, Misinformation and Disinformation

12/17/2018Hawaii Public Libraries Join NewsGuard in News Literacy Partnership

11/19/2018NewsGuard Launches ‘Human Intelligence’ BrandGuard Service to Help Advertisers Keep their Brands Off of ‘Fake News’ Websites

11/08/2018Stony Brook University and NewsGuard Team Up for News Literacy Initiative

11/05/2018NewsGuard Recognized with Leading Magazine Award for Innovation

10/29/2018NewsGuard’s Misinformation SWAT Team Issues Red Ratings to Two Networks Publishing Dozens of Hoax Websites

08/23/2018NewsGuard Announces Launch of Free Browser Plugin with Support from Microsoft

04/18/2018NewsGuard Announces Addition of Two Veteran Journalists to Analyst Team

03/05/2018Brill and Crovitz Announce Launch of NewsGuard to Fight Fake News