Attendees at the event included George Papadopoulos, a 2016 Trump campaign aide charged with lying to the FBI about his contacts with Kremlin officials, and Elon Musk’s father, South American businessman Errol Musk, according to a NewsGuard review of photos from the ceremony.
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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.
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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.
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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:
28.10.2025 21:30 — 👍 4 🔁 5 💬 1 📌 1
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.
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In @wired.com: how foreign actors exploit data voids, featuring expertise from NewsGuard.
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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
24.10.2025 20:31 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
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.
22.10.2025 20:57 — 👍 5 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0
Russian AI Sites Can’t Stop Gushing About Putin
Kremlin propagandist and U.S. fugitive John Mark Dougan runs a large network of French sites that incessantly praise the Russian president
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...
21.10.2025 19:18 — 👍 5 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
Why Russia Puts Words in NewsGuard’s Mouth
Commentary by NewsGuard’s Chine Labbé and Roberta Schmid
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.
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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.
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NewsGuard’s “False Claim of the Week”: A Video Shows an ICE Agent Arresting a Six-Year-Old Immigrant
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Delta Faces Boycott Over MAGA Hat Incident
Conservatives call for a boycott of Delta Air Lines over the false claim that the company removed a passenger for wearing a MAGA hat.
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.
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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.
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Nearly One Third of Americans Believe at Least One of September’s Top False Claims
NewsGuard’s Reality Gap Index Drops by Over Half
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...
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