Foreign social media users are fabricating footage of Iranian protests as the internet blackout enters its sixth day.

Pro-Iran and pro-China social media accounts are sharing out-of-context clips of mass demonstrations in an effort to portray the U.S. as deeply polarized, rattled by unrest, and on the brink of collapse. Read more in Reality Check: www.newsguardrealitycheck.com/p/foreign-ac...

A fake rap sheet and mugshot for Renee Good, who was killed in Minneapolis during an ICE operation, are circulating online and falsely claim that she had a violent criminal history. A NewsGuard review determined these are digitally manipulated fakes. www.newsguardrealitycheck.com/p/youre-a-mu...

Miss last week’s Reality Check? Catch up with the latest episode of NewsGuard's Reality Check Podcast, covering AI distortions of the capture in Venezuela and the ICE shooting in Minneapolis. Listen here: www.newsguardrealitycheck.com/p/reality-ch...

NewsGuard’s “False Claim of the Week”: The ICE Agent Who Reportedly Fatally Shot a Woman in Minneapolis Was Run Over by Her Vehicle Read the details of this false claim in Reality Check: www.newsguardrealitycheck.com/p/ice-agent-...

Have you seen these AI-rendered photos on your feed? They’re fakes. Social media users seeking to out the masked ICE agent before he was identified shared AI-enhanced images purportedly showing the lower half of his face. Read more in Reality Check: www.newsguardrealitycheck.com/p/minneapoli...

Just hours after the deadly ICE shooting in Minneapolis, social media users began using AI to fill the gaps in the breaking news coverage to their own liking. Read the details in Reality Check: www.newsguardrealitycheck.com/p/minneapoli...

Russian state media is baselessly claiming that the U.S. deployed cargo planes to loot Venezuela’s gold reserves — but there’s no evidence any U.S. cargo planes were deployed to Venezuela, for gold or any other reason. Read more in Reality Check: www.newsguardrealitycheck.com/p/russia-fal...

Did you see these images on your social media feed? They’re AI fakes. Read more in Reality Check: www.newsguardrealitycheck.com/p/phony-visu...

A Russian intelligence-linked organization fabricated a video report claiming that Ukraine has a mandatory COVID vaccination program that injects soldiers with microchips that can kill. Read more in Reality Check: www.newsguardrealitycheck.com/p/no-ukraine...

NewsGuard has now debunked 400 false claims about the Russia-Ukraine war pushed by Russia, and an analysis of our database shows that in 2025, Russian influence operations surpassed official state media as the biggest source of these narratives.

Trust starts with transparency. This NewsGuard Academy video tutorial unpacks one of NewsGuard’s nine standards of credibility and transparency — whether a news site clearly discloses its ownership and financing. www.newsguardrealitycheck.com/p/newsguard-...

Miss last week’s Reality Check? Catch up with the latest episode of NewsGuard's Reality Check Podcast, covering the horrific Hanukkah massacre in Sydney, Australia. Listen here: www.newsguardrealitycheck.com/p/reality-ch...

NewsGuard’s “False Claim of the Week”: The Man Who Disarmed a Shooter During the December 2025 Massacre of Jews in Australia is Maronite Christian, Not Muslim Read more in Reality Check: www.newsguardrealitycheck.com/p/sydney-mas...

Pro-India social media users and news sites are seizing on initial confusion about the nationality of the alleged shooters in the deadly attack on the Jewish community in Sydney, Australia, to falsely claim they were Pakistani.

NewsGuard’s November Reality Gap Index came in at 47%, up one point from last month. For the second consecutive month, nearly half of Americans believed at least one of the three false claims in the survey.

The EU has sanctioned John Mark Dougan, the American fugitive turned Moscow-based operative, accusing him of participating in pro-Kremlin influence operations. This marks the first time the EU has sanctioned an American national for spreading Russian disinformation.

Anti-Israel social media accounts are falsely claiming that a survivor of the deadly attack on the Jewish community in Sydney, Australia, was a “crisis actor,” pointing to two photos as supposed proof.

Nobody’s perfect. This NewsGuard Academy video unpacks one of NewsGuard’s nine of credibility and transparency that we use to assess news websites — whether a site has effective practices for correcting errors. www.newsguardrealitycheck.com/p/newsguard-...

NewsGuard’s “False Claim of the Week:” A December 2025 Image Shows Donald Trump Using a Walker www.newsguardrealitycheck.com/p/image-of-t...

During a visit to India in early December 2025, Vladimir Putin personally launched the new Indian version of Russian state news outlet RT, in an apparent effort to target Indians with pro-Kremlin propaganda and false claims. Read more in Reality Check: www.newsguardrealitycheck.com/p/russias-rt...

Anti-Israel social media users are spreading a fabricated screenshot to falsely claim that ChatGPT ran an advertisement for the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, the largest pro-Israel lobbying group in the U.S. Read it in Reality Check: www.newsguardrealitycheck.com/p/chatgpt-is...

Deepfakes of the UK Prime Minister are flooding TikTok. An apparent network of 73 TikTok accounts has been posting thousands of AI deepfakes of U.K. PM Keir Starmer supposedly announcing controversial policies, from exorbitant new taxes to chilling authoritarian measures.

Health hoax websites and prominent anti-vaxxers are falsely claiming that hepatitis B vaccination for newborns is unjustified, after the CDC vaccine panel appointed by RFK Jr. changed its recommendation for the vaccine. Read more in Reality Check: www.newsguardrealitycheck.com/p/cdcs-hepat...

Learn how to use and understand X’s new “About This Account” feature, which indicates the country or region where an account is based, in this NewsGuard Academy video. www.newsguardrealitycheck.com/p/newsguard-...

NewsGuard’s “False Claim of the Week": A Video Shows Cocaine Falling From Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky’s Nose While Giving a Speech

Pro-China sources are spreading manipulated videos purportedly showing residents of the Japanese Ryukyu Islands saying they’re Chinese, not Japanese, in an apparent effort to bolster Beijing’s territorial claims over the islands amid rising tensions between China and Japan.

Google’s new text-to-image generator Nano Banana Pro, lauded for its highly realistic AI images, advanced false claims 100% of the time when prompted to do so, a NewsGuard analysis found.

No matter the national target, false narratives are often crafted for foreign eyes, NewsGuard’s Giulia Pozzi writes in a Reality Check commentary. “The result is a kind of geopolitical funhouse mirror …”

No, Russia: Hyundai is still boycotting you. Kremlin-aligned sources falsely claim that Hyundai is resuming operations in Russia, citing the South Korean auto company’s recent bid to renew its trademarks in Russia.

NewsGuard’s “False Claim of the Week”: Charlie Kirk’s Accused Assassin Trained With the French Army, Suggesting French Involvement in the Assassination

Vaccine skeptics are claiming that an October 2025 study proves that COVID-19 vaccines cause dangerous “microclots” in 100% of recipients. However, the study’s authors told NewsGuard that “the study design, methods, and conclusions do not support any claims about vaccines.”

Pro-MAGA X accounts operating secretly from abroad spread 31 significant false claims about U.S. politics, ranging from supposed corruption by Democrats to a phony Ukrainian assassination plot, a NewsGuard review has found.

NewsGuard's "False Claim of the Week": A Leaked Audio Clip Depicts Donald Trump Yelling at his Cabinet to Block the Release of the ‘Epstein Files www.newsguardrealitycheck.com/p/leaked-tru...

Today’s NewsGuard Academy video unpacks one of NewsGuard’s nine standards of credibility and transparency that we use to assess websites — how the site handles the difference between news and opinion. Get smarter about how sites reveal — or conceal — their agendas.

“When emotion replaces evidence as our main filter for truth, we lose a shared sense of reality. And that shared sense of reality is our foundation for journalism, science, and democracy,” writes NewsGuard's Roberta Schmid in a Reality Check Commentary.

Liberal social media users are falsely claiming that White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said the Trump in the Epstein emails is not the president. Read the details in Reality Check: www.newsguardrealitycheck.com/p/trump-pres...

Russian actors are using OpenAI’s Sora 2 text-to-video generator to depict the Ukrainian army as weak, weeping and surrendering. Read NewsGuard’s latest report in Reality Check: www.newsguardrealitycheck.com/p/kremlin-pr...

In our latest NewsGuard Academy video, learn why relying on X’s AI chatbot Grok as a fact-checker can lead you astray. Watch the full video here: www.newsguardrealitycheck.com/p/beware-of-...

NewsGuard’s “False Claim of the Week”: New York City Mayor-Elect Zohran Mamdani Walked Back His Campaign Promise of a $30-Per-Hour Minimum Wage, Telling Voters to ‘Make Do’ Read more in Reality Check: www.newsguardrealitycheck.com/p/false-clai...

NewsGuard’s Reality Gap Index hits 46%: October’s falsehoods dupe nearly half of Americans. The month’s top false claims focused on a Justice Department investigation, a mass shooting at a Mormon church, and the “No Kings” protests.

NewsGuard has identified three instances of X’s AI chatbot Grok confidently — and falsely — stating that Donald Trump won the 2020 election. Read the full report in Reality Check: www.newsguardrealitycheck.com/p/xs-grok-cl...

Russia is targeting Armenia’s elections — early and viciously. The Kremlin’s latest campaign to meddle in a neighbor's election has started earlier than past efforts, but employs a similar playbook, a NewsGuard analysis found.

Satirical posts claiming that major companies are cutting ties with NYC in response to the Nov. 4 election of Democrat Zohran Mamdani as mayor have amassed millions of views, apparently by social media users who believe them. Read it in Reality Check: www.newsguardrealitycheck.com/p/walmart-is...

Watch this NewsGuard Academy video to learn how to unmask fabrications by tracking down the original context of video clips that are going viral. www.newsguardrealitycheck.com/p/how-to-deb...

NewsGuard’s “False Claim of the Week”: After GOP Losses on Nov. 4, Trump Said in a Truth Social Post: ‘Fine, America. F--- YOU’ Read the debunk in Reality Check: www.newsguardrealitycheck.com/p/trumps-vir...

The U.S. 2025 elections were free of widespread claims of voter fraud — the exception was New York City, where the presence of self-described democrat socialist Zohran Mamdani on the mayoral ballot drew global attention and several false claims.

A new report advancing the debunked claim that vaccines cause autism has amassed millions of views and widespread coverage in conservative media. However, health experts told NewsGuard that the report used unreliable methods and misrepresented existing research.

Conspiracy-oriented news sites are baselessly claiming that Israel threatened to assassinate far-right U.S. commentators Tucker Carlson and Candace Owens due to their outspoken criticisms of Israel. Read the details of this false claim in Reality Check: www.newsguardrealitycheck.com/p/israel-has...

Miss last week's Reality Check? Catch up with the latest episode of NewsGuard's Reality Check Podcast, covering food stamps and immigrants, celebrating propaganda RT’s anniversary, and an ethnic COVID hoax. www.newsguardrealitycheck.com/p/reality-ch...