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This year, stay abreast of the evolving misinformation landscape by subscribing to NewsGuard's free weekly Misinformation Risk Briefing on LinkedIn.
Read the latest edition here:
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New: NewsGuard found ads for dozens of major brands unintentionally appearing below viral posts on X advancing false or egregiously misleading claims about the Israel-Hamas war
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We're excited to announce that NewsGuard now works on
@duckduckgo
: Get journalistic credibility ratings for news and information websites right in your browser, displayed next to links on
#duckduckgo
. Download the extension at .
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From Nov. 13 to Nov. 22, 2023, NewsGuard analysts reviewed programmatic ads that appeared in the feeds below 30 viral tweets that contained false or egregiously misleading information about the war.
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These 30 viral tweets were posted by ten of X’s worst purveyors of Israel-Hamas war-related misinformation, and have cumulatively reached an audience of over 92 million viewers, according to X data. On average, each tweet was seen by 3 million people.
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A NewsGuard review found that
#TikTok
’s search feature—which is increasingly being used by young people as a search engine—is regularly feeding users false and misleading claims.
Read NewsGuard's September Misinformation Monitor
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NEW:
@Facebook
Pages with millions of followers continue to publish fake COVID-19 cures and conspiracy theories. We've just released a report naming 15 of these misinformation "super-spreaders" that reach 18.6M followers combined: (1/6)
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However, the other half did not feature a Community Note. Ads for major brands such as Pizza Hut, Airbnb, Microsoft, Paramount, and Oracle were found by NewsGuard on posts with and without a Community Note (more on this below).
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NewsGuard found that 25 Twitter Blue verified accounts were responsible for 141 tweets containing false, misleading, & unsubstantiated claims in one week.
These tweets were viewed nearly 27M times and received more than 760K likes and retweets during this period.
Read our full…
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A list of the 30 tweets and the 10 accounts used in NewsGuard’s analysis is available here:
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The false or egregiously misleading claims include that the Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas attack against Israel was a “false flag” and that CNN staged footage of an October 2023 rocket attack on a news crew in Israel.
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Half of the tweets (15) were flagged with a fact-check by Community Notes, X’s crowd-source fact-checking feature, which under the X policy would have made them ineligible for advertising revenue.
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ANNOUNCEMENT: To help combat dangerous misinformation during the COVID-19 crisis, NewsGuard is temporarily removing the paywall from our browser extension to make it free to all users.
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Searching for “U.S. midterm elections” on Rumble, the top result we found was a QAnon account claiming that the U.S. Supreme Court canceled the midterms.
This is false, of course, but it is part of a pattern on Rumble.
Read our new report
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NewsGuard’s co-CEOs
@stevenbrill
and
@crovitz
speak with
@brianstelter
about our work identifying and countering misinformation online.
It gives people tools "to determine is this something that I should trust generally or is this misinformation," says co-CEO Gordon Crovitz of
@NewsGuardRating
.
"In the US... the sites that account for 95% of engagement, almost 40% of them get a red [not trustworthy] rating."
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New: NewsGuard has launched an Israel-Hamas War Misinformation Tracking Center documenting top war-related myths that have already reached tens of millions across the globe since the conflict began on Oct. 7
View NewsGuard's Tracking Center here:
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The AP covers the lead story from our newest Misinformation Monitor.
A new research report says the conservative TV channel Newsmax is presenting viewers with an “alternate universe” of how the deadly siege at the U.S. Capitol unfolded on Jan. 6, 2021.
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New: A NewsGuard analysis found that artificial intelligence tools are being used by content farms to generate vast amounts of news content with little to no human oversight. Read our special report here:
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Nearly three-fourths of the most viral posts on X advancing misinformation about the Israel-Hamas War are being pushed by “verified” X accounts, a NewsGuard analysis found
Read this month’s Misinformation Monitor:
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@JessicaHuseman
Disclosing ownership and financing is one of the nine journalistic criteria NewsGuard uses to rate news and information websites. We prefer to let our Nutrition Labels to speak for themselves but for the record, fails this and two other of our criteria.
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NEW: NewsGuard’s team have identified a further 56 sites spreading disinformation about the war in Ukraine & 13 new myths spreading online about the conflict.
NewsGuard’s teams continue to monitor and counter disinformation about the invasion of Ukraine.
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Attention
@Microsoft
Edge users: You can now access NewsGuard ratings directly from your Edge mobile browser. Just go to settings and select "News Rating" to see credibility ratings of news sites from trained journalists and editors.
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NEW: Today we join forces with
@knightfdn
,
@microsoft
,
@MountSinaiNYC
,
@tweetPHM
and others to launch
#VaxFacts
, a campaign aimed at fighting vaccine misinformation by giving every family free access to our new HealthGuard tool
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NewsGuard is LIVE. Read about the launch exclusively on
@axios
and download the extension on Chrome or Edge
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NewsGuard’s
@mskibinski
speaks with
@brianstelter
and
@KyungLahCNN
about our work reporting on the credibility of thousands of news sources, using basic journalistic criteria 1/3
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ICYMI: A NewsGuard review has found that a network of sites disguised as local news outlets are part of a coordinated campaign to boost Democrats ahead of the midterm elections.
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A NewsGuard analysis found that “verified” accounts on X are superspreaders of misinformation about the conflict, boosting falsehoods while displaying a “verification” blue checkmark
Read this month’s Misinformation Monitor:
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A misinformation milestone: Since the outbreak of the Israel-Hamas War in October 2023, NewsGuard analysts have documented 111 Israel-Hamas war falsehoods online, spread by 331 websites, through social media platforms, and in search results.
Read more:
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Today's tweet by President Trump shows the value of "pre-bunking" conspiracy theories by flagging unreliable sources that regularly spread falsehoods.
The story came from Conservative Treehouse, a site NewsGuard already rated red for posting conspiracies… 1/7
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A NewsGuard report finds that X Premium, formerly Twitter Blue, subscribers are fueling the spread of misinformation about the Israel-Hamas War
Read our latest Misinformation Monitor:
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ICYMI: Check out NewsGuard’s
@mskibinski
on
@ReliableSources
, talking about our work reporting out the credibility of thousands of news sources 1/2
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ICYMI: NewsGuard’s
@madelineroache
speaks about the “hermetically sealed bubble” created by the Russian state media’s coverage of the war in Ukraine.
Russians increasingly dependent on the lies and misinformation from state-owned media as independent news in the country is nearly eliminated
@brianstelter
reports
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NEW: Three-quarters of the top 250 posts on X spreading false/unsubstantiated claims about the Israel-Hamas War shared in the first week of the conflict came from X Premium users
Read our latest Misinformation Monitor:
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NewsGuard co-CEO
@StevenBrill
will discuss NewsGuard's ratings of news websites with
@mitchellreports
shortly. Be sure to tune in and download our browser extension and see the ratings on Chrome or Edge
Coming up on
#AMR
:
.
@kwelkernbc
.
@PeteWilliamsNBC
.
@danielsgoldman
.
@JoyceWhiteVance
.
@woodruffbets
.
@SykesCharlie
.
@murphymike
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@CharlieCookDC
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@JuliaEAinsley
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@SusanPage
.
@JDevermont
.
@StevenBrill
And more on
@MSNBC
- tune in 12ET!
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NewsGuard has partnered with
@Neeva
, the first search engine to provide its users with NewsGuard’s Reliability Ratings directly in their search results.
To try it out today and start getting more context for the news you encounter online, visit .
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With COVID misinformation rampant, today's launch of NewsGuard in Canada will help people identify websites they can trust and which are spreading fake news.
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NEW: Since launching our Tracking Center in March, NewsGuard has identified 250 websites spreading
#disinformation
about the Russia-Ukraine war.
NewsGuard’s staff have also debunked 50+ myths related to the ongoing conflict. 🧵
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Twitter’s “blue check” used to signal author authenticity. Now, it's a way for peddlers of misinformation to appear trustworthy.
Read NewsGuard’s exclusive new report on Twitter Blue:
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Special Report: QAnon in Europe
NewsGuard’s reporters have traced how an American conspiracy theory migrated to Europe and gained followers by adapting to local circumstances, and bolstered because of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Since Tuesday, NewsGuard has published six myths and their debunks to our Midterm Election Misinformation Tracking Center, including myths about a poll worker rigging ballots, Arizona voting machines, and sharpies in Illinois.
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You didn’t just imagine it: According to
@GMFDigital
, there really was more dis/misinfo on Twitter and Facebook in 2020.
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Post-Musk, misinformation spreaders enjoy engagement boost on Twitter, NewsGuard analysis finds
Read our exclusive report:
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Websites that spread
#misinformation
about the U.S.
#election
in 2020 are still spreading false claims about the race.
Read more in NewsGuard’s latest Misinformation Monitor.
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Through Trump’s reposts, verified accounts, and other methods, Truth Social has become an active booster of QAnon, NewsGuard finds
Read NewsGuard’s August Misinformation Monitor
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NEW: Having identified 125 Unreliable AI-generated News sites (“UAIN” sites), NewsGuard is announcing an industry standard framework for defining websites that publish AI-generated content with little to no transparency or human oversight.
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Despite
@Facebook
's announced efforts to warn users of misinformation, we found that in a majority of cases—63%—the false Facebook posts we reviewed showed no warning, fact-checking language, or links to more credible sources, even though they reached millions of users. (2/6)
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Could ChatGPT Become A Monster Misinformation Superspreader? NewsGuard’s latest report confirms fears, showing how the chatbot could be weaponized to disseminate false info at scale
Read NewsGuard’s January Misinformation Monitor:
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With
@GwynethPaltrow
’s
@goop
launching on
@Netflix
soon, don't miss NewsGuard's trust rating for the site.
Our review found it failed to meet 8 of 9 basic standards for credibility and transparency.
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UPDATE: We've just added a new set of
@Facebook
pages to our list of COVID-19 misinformation "super-spreaders." The list now contains 31 Facebook pages that reach 21.3MM users. (1/3)
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A week ago, NewsGuard launched the Coronavirus Misinformation Tracking Center.
As of today, we’ve identified 106 sites, up from 31 at launch.
The number suggests unreliable publishers are increasingly looking to profit off people’s fears about the global epidemic.
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When NewsGuard offered
@Facebook
our data on websites that spread misinformation at the start of the pandemic - they didn’t want it. Picking fights with
@POTUS
won’t fix the misinformation epidemic - working collaboratively will. Our door is open.
JUST IN:
@Facebook
responds to Biden (“They’re killing people”) re: COVID misinformation: “The facts show Facebook is helping save lives. Period.”
Full statement here.
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This is an ongoing list; we plan to add more Pages to it as we encounter them. To read the full report, click here: (6/6)
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Many of the Pages we found have repeatedly spread false health claims—not just about COVID-19, but about other illnesses, too. For example, a page called The Truth About Cancer posted anti-vaccine myths and phony cancer cures before it published COVID-19 misinformation. (5/6)
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NEW: How the world’s largest brands funded the misinformation behind the Capitol riot.
A NewsGuard analysis of programmatic advertising data finds over 1,600 brands advertised on sites publishing election myths leading up to the Capitol breach.
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The number of sites identified by NewsGuard as spreading Russian disinformation and profiting from programmatic advertising has nearly tripled in the one year since Russia invaded Ukraine
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New findings out today from our research partners at the
@UMich
Center for Social Media Responsibility: "People ‘fly to quality’ news on social sites when faced with uncertainty"
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Nearly a year after YouTube banned Russian state media, the platform continues to host documentaries produced by Kremlin propaganda outlet RT.
NewsGuard found 250 uploads of films repeating egregious falsehoods about the war, spread across 100 channels.
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Dear Mr. Trump: We recommend you read our full rating of this site. It does not have a perfect score; it fails several of our nine criteria. The story you cited was published before it was charged that the attack was false & has been updated with an editors' note.
@donaldtrumpjr
Media Matters still arguing that the Smollett attack was not a hoax, and they of course are “Newsguard certified” green check mark.
That’s the problem with leftists policing “the news”. Newsguard Certified means nothing... if anything it probably means inivetable bias.
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NewsGuard found that TikTok is hosting hundreds of videos using violence and music to celebrate the Wagner Group, a notorious Russian mercenary outfit.
Read our exclusive report:
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We're dismayed, but not surprised, to see
@Poynter
had to pull its list of "unreliable" news sites after one day. Their well-intentioned effort seems to have nonetheless been flawed in several ways.
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@Timcast
Thank you for flagging. The website this article is sourced from already has a RED rating from NewsGuard. Our analysts will review this to determine how our Nutrition Label for Yahoo News should be updated.
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Check out NewsGuard, whose analysts are rating and reviewing the 7,500 websites that account for 98% of engagement with news online in the U.S.
@newsguardrating
Going to create a site where the public can rate the core truth of any article & track the credibility score over time of each journalist, editor & publication. Thinking of calling it Pravda …
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Press Release: More Than 500 Websites Improve their Journalism Trust Practices Through NewsGuard’s Rating Process
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NewsGuard’s Misinformation SWAT Team Issues Red Ratings to Two Networks Publishing Dozens of Hoax Websites:
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NEW: NewsGuard analyzed the Twitter activity from March 1 - 7, 2023, of 25 misinformation superspreader accounts that were “verified” by Twitter Blue.
Our analysts found that the 25 accounts cumulatively posted 141 tweets containing false, misleading, and unsubstantiated claims.
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Many of the Pages we found were associated with websites for which we had already issued red "unreliable" ratings because they had published past falsehoods about other topics. They are repeat offenders. Yet they continue to be able to use
@Facebook
to spread false claims. (3/6)
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.
@PopSci
covers NewsGuard’s latest misinformation monitor, revealing that “GPT-4 actually may even perform in a more harmful manner than its previous version.”
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Must read:
@Forrester
cites
@NewsGuardRating
about how marketers are funding the “Misinformation Industry,” calling misinformation one of the five forces "transforming trust” and urging brands to “clean up their media plans” with services like NewsGuard.
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NEW: We've just released a new set of
@Twitter
accounts to our list of COVID-19 misinformation "super-spreaders." The list now highlights 10 Twitter profiles that reach 3.2MM users. (1/4)
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🤖 🚨: The number of Unreliable AI-Generated ‘News’ sites (UAINs) has tripled in less than a month from 49 to 150. To capture this evolving landscape, NewsGuard has launched a tracking center focused on unreliable AI news sources.
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In some cases, such as three Facebook pages affiliated with the website Real Farmacy, we found evidence of what appears to be “coordinated inauthentic behavior,” which violates Facebook’s policies. Each page has over 1MM followers on
@Facebook
Facebook. (4/6)
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We're excited to announce that
@Microsoft
has expanded its adoption of NewsGuard. The new agreement expands Microsoft's sponsorship of our news literacy program, provides NewsGuard free to
@MicrosoftEdge
users and delivers NewsGuard's rating data to
@bing
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"In evaluating the prevalence of fake news, we advocate focusing on the original sources—the publishers—rather than individual stories, because we view the defining element of fake news to be the intent and processes of the publisher."
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NewsGuard is now available on
@Microsoft
Edge mobile browser for iOS and Android! You can enable it in settings by selecting the "News Rating" option.
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NewsGuard is tracking a network of sites, including & , designed to look like
#localnews
outlets. They publish hoax stories and
#misinformation
w/o transparency. We'll soon ID the full network. Get NewsGuard:
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We think humans just do a better job on certain things. That’s why NewsGuard invested in human review of news and information websites. Here’s how we do it:
The notion that algorithms are neutral because math is involved is deeply flawed. Journalists need to step up to report on it.
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On Tuesday, a committee called "Enlightenment in the digital age" handed French president Macron a report on ways to fight disinformation and conspiracy theories. The report highlights the role of programmatic advertising in funding misinformation. 1/5
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#SocialMedia
giants Facebook and Twitter are continuing to ignore warnings about accounts they know spread
#COVID19
#misinformation
.
Read more in NewsGuard’s latest Misinformation Monitor.
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New today: We are partnering with
@LibrariesEU
to bring NewsGuard’s media literacy service to European public libraries.
#medialiteracy
#publiclibraries
#libraries
Read the full release:
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NewsGuard is launching a tracking center focused on AI-enabled misinformation, which as of this week has found 150 ‘Unreliable AI-Generated News’ sites (UAINs).
Learn more, and see original reporting related to AI content issues on our site.
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Read our full report
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NewsGuard has published two additional myths, and their debunks, to our Midterm Election Misinformation Tracking Center, tackling topics about how votes are counted, and allegations about “unverified” voters in Pennsylvania.
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@JimmyPatronis
We at
@NewsGuardRating
understand the concerns of the Florida CFO, but his letter confuses NewsGuard with partisan services. We are apolitical and fully transparent.
Please see our reply.
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NewsGuard announces UK Launch to tackle misinformation;
@jimmy_wales
,
@AndersFoghR
and
@sambrook
join global advisory board.
Full details
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Millennials in America are more likely to have visited a public library in the past year than any other adult generation. Read about how NewsGuard and libraries across the country are partnering to promote news literacy among young people:
Millennials in America are more likely to have visited a public library in the past year than any other adult generation.
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NewsGuard has been partnering with libraries and schools across the country to promote news and media literacy. This Labor Day weekend, share NewsGuard () and our partnership handout () with the librarians and educators in your life!
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Acronym, a dark-money funder of the Iowa voting app, is also the secret funder of a national network claiming to be "local news sites" that are actually partisan pro-Democratic mouthpieces, such as Virginia Dogwood and Courier Newsroom. See our rating:
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Also in July’s Misinformation Monitor, we explore COVID-19 myths are becoming hand-me-down monkeypox myths, and how a sarcastic tweet turned into misinformation with some outlets
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The
@nytimes
has a story today about Conservative Edition News, a site owned by former Fox News exec Ken Lacorte. The Times positioned its reporting on the site's ownership as a scoop. In fact, NewsGuard reported on this network of sites and its ties to Lacorte a month ago.
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ICMYI:
@mskibinski
spoke with
@ReliableSources
about NewsGuard’s reporting that showed how new
#TikTok
users were delivered
#misinfo
about the conflict in Ukraine shortly after signing up
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One year, more than 3,500 websites around the world rated for credibility and transparency, and a lot more to come. See our special report for highlights, insights, and metrics from NewsGuard's first year fighting
#misinformation
:
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Twitter’s “blue check” used to signal author authenticity. Now, it's a way for peddlers of misinformation to appear trustworthy.
Read NewsGuard’s exclusive new report on Twitter Blue
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The research cited here underscores one reason NewsGuard rates all kinds of news sites, rather than just flagging the unreliable ones.
In doing so, we avoid the “Implied Truth Effect” -- in which labeling false stories leads readers to assume unlabeled stories are true.
“When you start putting warning labels on some things, it makes everything else seem more credible.”
@MIT
's
@DG_Rand
explains the unintended consequences of flagging fake news. via
@FastCompany
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NYT: "After Dr. Blasey testified, Right Wing News posted several false stories about her ...then used the network of Facebook pages and accounts to share the pieces" NewsGuard rated this site RED a month ago. Avoid disinformation:
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Some users have asked whether NewsGuard's browser plugin captures and stores data about the websites you visit, or whether we sell any data about users to advertisers. Put simply, we do not. To make this clearer, we've updated our privacy policy:
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On NewsGuard’s recently launched tracking center, we’ve IDed more sites that are powered by AI, operating with no human oversight, and pumping out low-quality ‘news.’
As of now, our tally stands at 166 ‘Unreliable AI-Generated News’ (UAIN) sites.
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Co-CEO
@stevenbrill
speaks with
@MollyJongFast
&
@NewAbnormalPod
about NewsGuard’s work reporting on news sources across the internet.
Plus,
@StevenBrill
of NewsGuard looks back at conversations he had with executives at Facebook about moderating content on the platform. Their answer: Sorry, we can’t.
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