NewsGuard Special Reports

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 more than 270 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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Special Report: The U.S. Best and Worst of 2021

In this report, we identify the misinformation websites with the most online engagement in 2021 in the United States. We also highlight a selection of the trustworthy sites that are producing reliable journalism, including for local and niche markets.

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UK Special Report: The Best and Worst of 2021

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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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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