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One year after Trump survived an attempted assassination at a campaign rally in Butler, PA, liberal social media users are again citing fake evidence to claim the incident was staged. Read it in Reality Check: newsguardrealitycheck.com/p/footage-revi…
Social media users are citing what appears to be a fabricated image of a letter and doodled picture Trump purportedly sent to Jeffrey Epstein in 2003. Read the details in Reality Check: newsguardrealitycheck.com/p/fake-image-p…
Today in Reality Check: -Fake image purports to show Trump birthday drawing for Epstein -Footage revives conspiracy of Trump’s staged assassination attempt -Concocted Jordan statement threatens attack on Israel -How to spot a satirical claim newsguardrealitycheck.com/p/beware-fake-…
NewsGuard’s False Claim of the Week: The Trump Administration Achieved the U.S Government’s First Monthly Budget Surplus in 20 Years in June 2025 newsguardrealitycheck.com/p/did-ice-arre…
Today in Reality Check: -Deepfake claims ICE arrested Mexicans who helped rescue Texas flood victims -White House apparently duped by In-N-Out Burger joke post -Undercover video doesn’t prove J&J COVID vaccine was untested newsguardrealitycheck.com/p/did-ice-arre…
LA is notorious for its traffic congestion. However, increased deportations did not cause a sudden decrease in snarled traffic, despite claims by pro-Trump social media accounts citing a Google Maps screenshot. Read it in Reality Check: newsguardrealitycheck.com/p/la-traffic-j…
Today in Reality Check: -A Tucker Carlson interview fuels false claims in Iranian state media -L.A. traffic jams persist, despite claims of relief from mass deportations -Fake story claims ICE agents resigning “in droves” newsguardrealitycheck.com/p/iran-makes-t…
NewsGuard’s "False Claim of the Week": The National Weather Service Did Not Issue Timely Alerts About the Texas Floods Due to Cuts by the Trump Administration newsguardrealitycheck.com/i/168076766/fa…
In a Reality Check commentary, NewsGuard’s @SadeghiMckenzie explains why we are moving away from using the terms “misinformation” and “disinformation.” “At NewsGuard, we’re retiring these words as primary labels. Not because the threats they describe have vanished. To the…
Banned in the EU for spreading propaganda about the war in Ukraine, RT has found another way to promote its propaganda in Italy, thanks to a new campaign involving billboard ads and public screenings of pro-Kremlin documentaries. Read it in Reality Check: newsguardrealitycheck.com/p/they-ban-the…
After Israel's June 13 attack on Iran, pro-Iran and pro-China users are misrepresenting a video, claiming it shows Iranian police parading captured spies from Israel’s Mossad intelligence agency before their alleged execution. Read it in Reality Check: newsguardrealitycheck.com/p/pro-iranian-…
Both the left and right have spread false claims in the wake of the Texas floods — with liberal users falsely blaming FEMA staffing cuts and conservative accounts promoting conspiracy theories about weather manipulation. Read it in Reality Check: newsguardrealitycheck.com/p/no-federal-s…
Today in Reality Check: -Both sides misplace blame for the Texas floods -‘They ban the truth, we show it’: Russia’s RT makes a comeback in Italy -Pro-Iranian video hoax shows captured Israeli spies; gets millions of views newsguardrealitycheck.com/p/both-sides-m…
NewsGuard’s June AI Audit findings demonstrate how AI systems can become unintentional amplifiers of false information when reliable data is drowned out by repetition and virality. Read the full report: newsguardtech.com/ai-false-claim…
The Reality Gap Index, the nation’s first regular measurement of Americans’ propensity to believe the top false claims circulating online, found that nearly half of Americans believed at least 1 of June’s top 3 false claims. Read more in Reality Check: newsguardrealitycheck.com/p/new-index-ju…
NewsGuard’s False Claim of the Week: Florida’s ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ immigrant detention center is surrounded by an alligator-infested moat Read it in Reality Check: newsguardrealitycheck.com/p/alligator-al…
Today in Reality Check: -NewsGuard’s False Claim of the Week: Florida’s Alligator Alcatraz’s Phantom Moat -What’s really in the ‘Big Beautiful Bill’? -Reality Gap Index -How foreign propaganda and false claims use ‘data voids’ to infect AI models newsguardrealitycheck.com/p/alligator-al…
For reasons that nobody can explain, comedian Sam Hyde has been repeatedly and falsely blamed on social media for almost every major mass shooting, from the 2017 shooting at a Texas church to recent mass shooting in Idaho. Read the details in Reality Check:…
Social media users across the political spectrum are posting a doctored image to claim that Yankee Stadium is offering free hot dogs to ICE agents who present valid identification. Read about it in Reality Check: newsguardrealitycheck.com/p/no-yankee-st…
