NewsGuard Special Reports

Pro-China Disinformation Campaign Claims US Started Maui Fires in a ‘Weather Weapons’ Experiment, Falsely Citing the UK’s MI6

NewsGuard identified a network of 85 pro-China social media accounts falsely claiming the U.S. military caused the Hawaiian wildfires.

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Red-Teaming Finds OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Google’s Bard Still Spread Misinformation

NewsGuard’s repeat audit of two leading generative AI tools finds an 80 to 98 percent likelihood of false claims on leading topics in the news.

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Exclusive: NewsGuard Uncovers Network of Italian-Language Unreliable AI Generated Sites

NewsGuard identified 36 sites that each appear to operate with little or no human oversight and publish articles written largely or entirely by bots, sharing a common postal address.

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Tracking AI-enabled Misinformation: Over 450 ‘Unreliable AI-Generated News’ Websites (and Counting), Plus the Top False Narratives Generated by Artificial Intelligence Tools

NewsGuard has identified over 450 AI-generated news and information sites and is tracking false narratives produced by artificial intelligence tools.

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Do-Gooders Doing Bad: How Nonprofit and Government Organizations Unintentionally Fund the Misinformation Machine

NewsGuard identified 57 nonprofit and government organizations advertising on websites that traffic in misinformation, having failed to exclude them from their programmatic advertising

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

NewsGuard has identified 49 news and information sites that appear to be almost entirely written by artificial intelligence software. A new generation of content farms is on the way.

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NewsGuard Exclusive: ChatGPT-3.5 Generates More Disinformation in Chinese than in English

When tempted with China-related myths in English, ChatGPT-3.5 generally refuses to comply. But when fed the same myths in Chinese, ChatGPT becomes a disinformation superspreader.

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NewsGuard Exclusive: Beijing Deploys ChatGPT to Advance ‘Biolabs’ Disinformation Narrative

NewsGuard Finds Chinese State Media Used Generative AI to Claim a Kazakh Biolab is 'U.S.-Run' and 'Developing Bioweapons against China

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NewsGuard Exclusive: Russian State Media Uses AI Chatbot Screenshots to Advance False Claims

The concern that new artificial intelligence tools could be used by state actors to spread disinformation is no longer theoretical, as Russian state media has now cited purported responses from ChatGPT as evidence to advance false claims, NewsGuard has learned.

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

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Misinformation White Paper

NewsGuard’s white paper, “Fighting Misinformation with Journalism, not Algorithms,” outlines independent research on the effect of using human-curated news reliability ratings to mitigate false news, some of which has been conducted by leading academic institutions and other top scholars using NewsGuard’s Reliability Ratings dataset.

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2022 Midterm Election Misinformation Tracking Center

NewsGuard is tracking misinformation spreading online about the U.S. midterms.

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

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

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Russian State TV Monitor

NewsGuard’s weekly summary and translation of news stories from Russia’s state TV Channel One.

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Italian National Elections Misinformation Tracking Center

Chronicling the top myths spreading online about the Sept. 25, 2022, vote.

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Just in time for the midterms: New Entry Joins “Pink Slime” Pseudo-News Sweepstakes

A shadowy network of news sites is quietly pushing Democratic propaganda in battleground states ahead of the midterm elections

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Tracking Venezuela Misinformation

NewsGuard's team is tracking how websites are spreading disinformation in the region, often parroting Kremlin-produced talking points.

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Special Report: Videos Promoting Dangerous Herbal Abortions Continue To Circulate on TikTok Despite Platform’s Pledge To Crack Down, NewsGuard Finds

Misinformation purveyors are using rudimentary techniques to bypass TikTok’s moderation systems

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Special Report: Brands Boosting “Stop the Steal” Claims

Despite Renewed Attention to January 6 Insurrection, More than 1,900 Top Brands are Still Funding ‘Stop the Steal’ Misinformation Sites with Programmatic Ads

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Russia-Ukraine Disinformation Tracking Center

NewsGuard's team is tracking 397 websites spreading disinformation about the war in Ukraine, and the top false narratives they spread

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French Election Misinformation Tracker

NewsGuard's team is tracking false narratives spreading online about the 2022 French presidential election.

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Despite promises, Google and other ad platforms are still funding Russian disinformation

A new analysis by NewsGuard finds that dozens of websites publishing Russian disinformation narratives about the Ukraine invasion continue to receive advertising revenue from Google and other advertising companies.

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NewsGuard Details the Kremlin’s Ukraine Disinformation Tools

There are many aspects to Russia's propaganda efforts, but three of the most influential elements are the Kremlin's major state-controlled media outlets targeting international audiences: RT.com, SputnikNews.com, and TASS.com.

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Social Impact Report: 2021

NewsGuard's team has been leading the fight against misinformation. Learn about the progress we made in 2021--from rating nearly 7,500 websites to partnering with global health agencies to advancing news literacy for millions of library patrons--in our annual Social Impact Report.

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