Reports about online misinformation and disinformation from NewsGuard's analysts.
Reports
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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Another Tech ‘Innovation’ With Unintended Consequences
NewsGuard analysts found advertisements for 79 Western brands on three times as many sites spreading Russian disinformation as at the beginning of the war against Ukraine, all placed by Google and other Western ad tech services.
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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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Social Impact Report: 2022
In 2022, NewsGuard reported on dis/misinformation on multiple fronts, from the war in Ukraine to new developments with the COVID-19 pandemic to the U.S. midterm elections. Along the way, we exposed how misinformation can thrive on social media platforms in a series of special reports. Read about this impactful year.
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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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UK Special Report: The Best and Worst of 2022
NewsGuard’s end-of-year lists highlight high-performing misinformation websites, ranked by social media engagement, that have been found to repeatedly share false content. They also recognise high-engagement sites that earned a perfect 100 NewsGuard score, among them numerous local news outlets in the UK that performed particularly well on both engagement and reliability.
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