NewsGuard Special Reports
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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Alarming disinformation trends ahead of German federal elections
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Toxic TikTok: Popular social-media video app feeds vaccine misinformation to kids within minutes after they sign up
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We’re tracking the top myths about the German federal elections — and the websites spreading them.
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Special Report: Top brands are sending $2.6 billion to misinformation websites each year
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Special Report: California News Trust Report
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“An Absolute Dictator”: RFK Jr. on Dr. Anthony Fauci, “deadly” vaccines, and other conspiracies – all annotated with fact checks by NewsGuard
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Special Report: 87% of news shared on Parler before Jan. 6th came from misinformation sites
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Thousands of the world’s most trusted brands funded COVID-19 misinformation
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Special Report: How some of the world’s largest brands funded the misinformation behind the Capitol riot
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Special Report: 2020 Engagement Analysis
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Special Report: QAnon and Facebook
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Social Impact Report: 2020
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Special Report: 2020 Lists
Read It NowSpecial Report: Top COVID-19 Vaccine Myths
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2020 Election Misinformation Tracking Center
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Reports to Governments and WHO
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COVID-19 Vaccine Misinformation Super-spreaders
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Special Report: Election Misinformation
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Special Report: QAnon in Europe
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Twitter Super-Spreaders
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Facebook ‘Super-spreaders’: Europe
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Tracking Facebook’s COVID-19 Misinformation ‘Super-spreaders’
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