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NewsGuard: Global Leader in Information Reliability. Subscribe to Reality Check: newsguardrealitycheck.com. (Also at newsguard.bsky.social.)

Joined January 2018

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Jan 26, 2024
Want to stay informed about misinformation without the lengthy fact-checks? NewsGuard’s weekly newsletter, Reality Check, brings you up to speed in a matter of minutes. Read this week’s newsletter and subscribe here: newsguardtech.substack.com/p/taylor-swift…
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Nov 22, 2023
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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Brand Danger: X and Misinformation Super-spreaders Share Ad Money from False Claims About the...
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NewsGuard
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Oct 12, 2018
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 newsguardtech.com.
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Nov 22, 2023
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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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Nov 22, 2023
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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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Sep 14, 2022
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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Beware the 'New Google': TikTok’s Search Engine Pumps Toxic Misinformation To Its Young Users
NewsGuard
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Apr 21, 2020
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: newsguardtech.com/superspreaders (1/6)
NewsGuard
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Jun 11, 2024
A Russian disinformation network boosted the number of “pink slime” outlets — sites that present themselves as independent local news outlets but are instead funded by partisan groups — to 1,265, outnumbering the websites of 1,213 daily newspapers left in the U.S., according to
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NewsGuard
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Nov 22, 2023
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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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Nov 22, 2023
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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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NewsGuard X Report - Underlying Tweet & Account Data
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NewsGuard
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Apr 10, 2023
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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Nov 22, 2023
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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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Nov 22, 2023
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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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NewsGuard
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May 16, 2025
TikTok accounts are deceptively repurposing footage from “Shark Tank” — including fake Mark Cuban endorsements — to create misleading promotions of TikTok Shop products, in an apparent effort to boost sales and earn commissions. Read it in Reality Check:
TikTok Hosts Deceptive ‘Shark Tank’ Clips — for Profit
From newsguardrealitycheck.com
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