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...

The Russian state news outlet RT celebrated its 20th anniversary with a lavish event attended by Putin and the Kremlin’s top propagandists — complete with a deepfake ad campaign mocking Western leaders.

Trump’s pick for Surgeon General, Casey Means, has spread multiple provably false and potentially dangerous health claims — from the debunked myth that vaccines are linked to autism to the claim that raw milk has health benefits.

Kremlin propagandists, trying to paint Zelensky as corrupt, fabricate a Wyoming ranch purchase as the 14th real estate holding they made up as being owned by the Ukraine president. Interested in what the other 13 fake holdings are? Thread here:

Tucker Carlson boosted a false claim that was earlier advanced by RFK Jr. — that COVID-19 was engineered so that Ashkenazi Jews and Chinese people are immune. The claim is based on a theory that is biologically impossible, according to scientists.

In @wired.com: how foreign actors exploit data voids, featuring expertise from NewsGuard.

NewsGuard’s “False Claim of the Week”: MSNBC Tried to Pass Off Footage of a Larger, Unrelated 2017 Demonstration as an October 2025 ‘No Kings’ Protest

Our latest NewsGuard Academy video demonstrates some of the tell-tale signs that a video was generated by AI tools such as by Sora, from watermarks to on-screen text mishaps. www.newsguardrealitycheck.com/p/openais-so...

Pro-Kremlin sources are falsely claiming that French authorities planted a Russian passport next to the ladder used to rob crown jewels from the Louvre on Oct. 19, in a supposed effort to frame Russia for the brazen crime.

American fugitive turned Kremlin propagandist John Mark Dougan has created a network of AI-generated sites that, no matter the subject, can’t stop gushing about Vladimir Putin. Read the details in Reality Check: www.newsguardrealitycheck.com/p/russian-ai...

A Russian influence operation “has again targeted us, misusing our name and logo in three videos spreading false claims about France, Germany, and NewsGuard itself,” writes NewsGuard’s Chine Labbé and Roberta Schmid in a Reality Check Commentary.

OpenAI’s Sora 2 is a willing hoax generator, advancing false claims 80% of the time when prompted — including those originating from Russian disinformation operations.

NewsGuard’s “False Claim of the Week”: A Video Shows an ICE Agent Arresting a Six-Year-Old Immigrant

Conservative social media users are calling for a boycott of Delta Air Lines for supposedly removing a passenger from a plane because he was wearing a MAGA hat. Actually, the passenger was removed for wearing a hat that displayed an expletive.

How Russia laundered a lie about Ukraine through the U.S. Congress. The Zelensky corruption hoax spreads from a fringe Turkish website to Russian sites to MSN to a member of the U.S. Congress — and then, back to Russian media.

Nearly one third of Americans believe at least one of September’s top false claims about President Trump and the Charlie Kirk assassination. Read the latest Reality Gap Index in Reality Check: www.newsguardrealitycheck.com/p/nearly-one...

This NewsGuard Academy video probes the growing phenomenon of websites that are produced entirely with AI. Learn how to spot the red flags and protect yourself from their AI slop. www.newsguardrealitycheck.com/p/how-to-spo...

NewsGuard’s "False Claim of the Week": Newly-Released FBI Document Shows that Special Counsel Jack Smith Wiretapped Eight Republican Senators www.newsguardrealitycheck.com/p/protect-yo...

“By infecting AI models, Russia is rewriting history for everyone around the world in real time,” writes NewsGuard co-CEO Gordon Crovitz in his Reality Check Commentary. Read it here: www.newsguardrealitycheck.com/p/ai-models-...

Conspiracy theorists are claiming that the government shutdown ended the practice of controlling the population through ‘chemtrails’ — a phenomenon that doesn’t actually exist.

AI content farms are generating ad revenue by falsely claiming Coke dropped the Super Bowl due to Puerto Rican rapper Bad Bunny slotted to perform at the halftime show. One small problem: Coke is not a Super Bowl sponsor.

Did the Mormon Church Shooter Donate to ActBlue? Here’s how to trace a campaign contribution to separate fact from partisan fiction: www.newsguardrealitycheck.com/p/how-to-tra...

Russia, China, and Iran pay no price for spreading false claims about the U.S., NewsGuard Co-CEO Gordon Crovitz argues in a Washington Post commentary. Read it here: www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

Join the 50,000+ readers — and thousands of paid subscribers — who get Reality Check, NewsGuard’s newsletter tracking the false claims and conspiracy theories shaping our world. www.newsguardrealitycheck.com

“What matters isn’t truth or accountability, but the opportunity to score political points,” writes NewsGuard senior editor @sofiarubinson.bsky.social in her Reality Check commentary, “After a Shooting, Don’t Trust the T-Shirt.” Read it here: www.newsguardrealitycheck.com/p/after-a-sh...

No, pregnant women aren’t downing Tylenol to spite Trump. Read about how this narrative has taken hold in today’s Reality Check: www.newsguardrealitycheck.com/p/pregnant-w...

After failing to subvert the Moldovan elections, Kremlin-linked sources claim Moldova’s pro-EU victory was rigged through false reports of ballot stuffing and vote burning. Read more in Reality Check: www.newsguardrealitycheck.com/p/russians-c...

Days before Moldova holds pivotal elections on Sunday, a Kremlin-linked propaganda machine has succeeded in spreading false claims of corruption targeting the former Soviet republic’s pro-Europe government, NewsGuard found. Read our report: www.newsguardrealitycheck.com/p/new-kremli...

Watch this NewsGuard Academy video to learn how to use Google’s reverse image search to track down the original context of a photo or video — this one-minute trick can help save you from being duped. www.newsguardrealitycheck.com/p/how-to-con...

NewsGuard’s “False Claim of the Week”: The UN Deliberately Stalled Donald Trump’s Escalator at the September 2025 UN General Assembly www.newsguardrealitycheck.com/p/did-the-un...

False claims — including that the Amish don’t have autism because they are not vaccinated — surged online following the Trump administration’s Sept. 22 press conference. Read more in Reality Check: www.newsguardrealitycheck.com/p/bogus-vacc...

Social media users on both sides of the political spectrum are falsely claiming that Jimmy Kimmel’s suspension from Disney’s ABC network led to two lawsuits: one filed by Charlie Kirk’s wife, and another filed by Kimmel. Both claims are bogus. www.newsguardrealitycheck.com/p/kimmels-di...

Social media users often make false claims about how major companies and brands support or oppose specific candidates. This NewsGuard Academy video demonstrates how to locate and understand corporate campaign finance data. www.newsguardrealitycheck.com/p/how-to-det...

NewsGuard’s “False Claim of the Week”: Israel’s Chief Rabbi Wrote a Letter Consoling Charlie Kirk’s Family Eight Days Before His Assassination, Pointing to Israeli Involvement in His Death www.newsguardrealitycheck.com/p/how-to-det...

Anti-Israel social media influencers are citing a letter from Israel’s chief rabbi — incorrectly dated 9/2, before Kirk’s assassination — as proof that Israel orchestrated the attack. In fact, the letter was composed on 9/12. The earlier date was a typo. www.newsguardrealitycheck.com/p/letter-wit...

Russian influence operations are likely to continue to frame Europe’s peacekeeping efforts as Western aggression to discourage U.S. involvement, given past practices detailed by NewsGuard. Read our work tracking pro-Kremlin propaganda campaigns: www.newsguardrealitycheck.com/p/kremlin-pr...

Russian, Chinese, and Iranian state media are exploiting Charlie Kirk’s assassination. Here’s a thread on how U.S. adversaries are weaponizing the shooting by spreading false narratives that advance their geopolitical interests: www.newsguardrealitycheck.com/p/russian-ch...

Once again, the Russian influence operation known as Storm-1516 has zeroed in on France as President Macron has stepped up his support for Ukraine. Read the details in Reality Check: www.newsguardrealitycheck.com/p/kremlin-pr...

Pro-Kremlin propagandists are using forged maps and AI-generated videos to discredit and divide the West, seizing on Western plans to deploy peacekeeping forces to Ukraine after any ceasefire with Russia. Read it in Reality Check: www.newsguardrealitycheck.com/p/kremlin-pr...

Be skeptical of the government’s VAERS database that RFK seems about to invoke to make people scared of COVID vaccines. Read more about this unverified database in Reality Check: www.newsguardrealitycheck.com/p/how-an-unv...

PolitUkladchik, a Russian AI-generated satirical news program “demonstrates how the Kremlin is beginning to use AI as a tool for spectacle and as a shield for plausible deniability,” writes @mckenziefsadeghi.bsky.social in a Reality Check Commentary. www.newsguardrealitycheck.com/p/russias-de...