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RT Celebrates Anniversary as Kremlin’s ‘Propaganda Bullhorn’ Russia-owned RT marked its 20th anniversary with guests ranging from Vladimir Putin to Elon Musk’s father

Read more about the anniversary celebration of the Kremlin’s “propaganda bullhorn” in today’s Reality Check: www.newsguardrealitycheck.com/p/rt-celebra...

30.10.2025 19:32 — 👍 5    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

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.

30.10.2025 19:32 — 👍 4    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

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.

30.10.2025 19:32 — 👍 5    🔁 4    💬 2    📌 1
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Five Health Hoaxes Pushed by Trump’s Surgeon General Nominee Casey Means, Trump’s pick for Surgeon General, has advanced five provably false health claims since 2024, including that vaccines cause autism

A NewsGuard review found five such significant claims since August 2024. Read more about these hoaxes pushed by Trump’s surgeon general nominee in Reality Check: www.newsguardrealitycheck.com/p/five-healt...

29.10.2025 21:31 — 👍 4    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

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.

29.10.2025 21:31 — 👍 6    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0
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Russian Fake: Mapping Zelensky’s Made-Up $682 Million Real Estate Portfolio 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

Read more about the pro-Russian propagandists falsifying Zelensky’s real estate portfolio in Reality Check: www.newsguardrealitycheck.com/p/russian-fa...

28.10.2025 21:30 — 👍 4    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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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
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Jews and Chinese Also Get COVID, Whatever Tucker Carlson and RFK Jr. Claim Carlson and Kennedy assert the COVID-19 virus was engineered to make Jewish and Chinese people immune

Read the details of this conspiracy theory in Reality Check: www.newsguardrealitycheck.com/p/jews-and-c...

27.10.2025 21:05 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

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.

27.10.2025 21:05 — 👍 7    🔁 3    💬 1    📌 0

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

27.10.2025 13:31 — 👍 5    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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AI-Generated Fact Check on X is Wrong: MSNBC’s ‘No Kings’ Footage is Legit Conservatives, including Sen. Ted Cruz, relied on AI hallucination to accuse MSNBC of airing outdated video to inflate size of anti-Trump protests. NewsGuard debunks it as our False Claim of the Week

Read the details of this false claim in Reality Check: www.newsguardrealitycheck.com/p/ai-generat...

24.10.2025 20:31 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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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
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OpenAI’s Sora Makes Hoax Videos. Here’s How to Spot Them Tips and tricks to identify AI-generated videos, including those produced by OpenAI’s Sora 2 text-to-video model

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...

24.10.2025 14:36 — 👍 4    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 1
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Pro-Russia Accounts Plant ‘Double False Flag’ on Louvre Heist Pro-Russian accounts accuse the French of framing Russia by planting a Russian passport at the crime scene. Turns out, the pro-Russian accounts framed the French in a “double false flag” operation.

Read the details of this “double false flag” in Reality Check: www.newsguardrealitycheck.com/p/pro-russia...

22.10.2025 20:57 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 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
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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
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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.

21.10.2025 14:12 — 👍 5    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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OpenAI’s Sora 2 Is a Willing Hoax Generator We tested OpenAI’s new text-to-video generator to see how easily bad actors could turn it into a misinformation superspreader. The results are alarming.

Read NewsGuard’s special report in Reality Check: www.newsguardrealitycheck.com/p/openais-so...

17.10.2025 15:27 — 👍 7    🔁 5    💬 0    📌 1

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.

17.10.2025 15:27 — 👍 8    🔁 5    💬 2    📌 0
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Viral Video Does Not Show a Detained Six-Year-Old Plus: A Russian Operative’s New French Venture

Read more about this false claim and how it spread in Reality Check: www.newsguardrealitycheck.com/p/viral-vide...

16.10.2025 20:57 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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NewsGuard’s “False Claim of the Week”: A Video Shows an ICE Agent Arresting a Six-Year-Old Immigrant

16.10.2025 20:57 — 👍 3    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 0
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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.

Read the details of this false claim in Reality Check: www.newsguardrealitycheck.com/p/delta-face...

16.10.2025 15:10 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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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.

16.10.2025 15:10 — 👍 8    🔁 3    💬 2    📌 0
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How Russia Laundered a Lie About Ukraine Through Congress By NewsGuard’s Eva Maitland and McKenzie Sadeghi

Read about the disinformation laundry in action in today’s Reality Check:
www.newsguardrealitycheck.com/p/how-russia...

14.10.2025 19:46 — 👍 6    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 3

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.

14.10.2025 19:46 — 👍 6    🔁 3    💬 2    📌 1
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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...

13.10.2025 19:28 — 👍 2    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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How to Spot AI-Generated ‘Content Farms’ A viral false claim about Coca-Cola threatening to end its Super Bowl contract over Puerto Rican rapper Bad Bunny’s planned halftime performance originated on a site called “News 24/7,” Reality Check ...

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...

13.10.2025 14:25 — 👍 6    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 1

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