New: It took me two days, $105 and no expertise whatsoever to launch a fully automated, AI-generated local news content farm with the partisan news coverage framing of my choice. Read about my experience in commentary I wrote for the The Wall Street Journal.

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NewsGuard's Jack Brewster writes in the The Wall Street Journal about how he launched an AI-generated, partisan local news site for just $105. As Brewster writes: 'The results were impressive—and, in an election year, alarming.'

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New: NewsGuard has now debunked more than 200 Ukraine-related false narratives circulating online since Russia invaded Ukraine on Feb. 24, 2022.

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The Kremlin makes Ukraine’s Zelensky a real-estate mogul…and how this disinformation spreads newsguardrealitycheck.com/p/reality-chec…

Before the Baltimore bridge collapse, there was the 2007 Minneapolis bridge collapse. But the truth survived then.

'The example of the two bridges spans a shift in belief from the authoritative to the groundless,' writes NewsGuard's Jim Warren.

More: newsguardrealitycheck.com/p/reality-chec…

“If the $2.6 billion a year in ad revenue currently going to misinformation sites stopped going to those sites, thousands and thousands of misinformation sites would disappear,” said NewsGuard co-CEO Gordon Crovitz on Axios 1 Big Thing podcast.

Listen here: axios.com/2024/03/28/alo…

In this special edition of Reality Check, we bring you everything you need to know about disinformation surrounding the Moscow terror attack, including how Russia, China, & Iran are spinning the tragedy to spread disinformation about the West.

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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: newsguardtech.com/press/misinfor…

In today's Reality Check: With the 2024 U.S. presidential election 7 months away, secretly partisan local news sites are expanding their reach.

Plus: An AI content farm plagiarizes the article that called it out for plagiarizing.

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Huge shoutout to NewsGuard for their new Substack 'Reality Check,' which analyzes misinformation and who's behind it. newsguardrealitycheck.com

In our latest Reality Check newsletter: Henry Makow, a Canadian author who in 1984 invented the card game “Scruples,” which throws players into moral quandaries, also runs a conspiracy blog recently rated by NewsGuard.

Plus: Russia creates dancing French president, and Biden’s…

“Malign actors have really begun to perfect the art of abusing not only the open internet, but also AI,” NewsGuard co-CEO Gordon Crovitz told Semafor.

Read more about the launch of our AI Election Safety Suite: semafor.com/article/03/17/…

Milestone: NewsGuard has found 750 AI-generated “news” websites.

Read more in the latest Reality Check and subscribe here: newsguardrealitycheck.com/p/milestone-ne…

No, Google is not shutting down its popular email service.

An image of a fabricated email from Google Analytics matter-of-factly announcing that the company will be “sunsetting” Gmail has circulated widely on X, garnering more than 12 million views and creating confusion among…

In today’s Reality Check newsletter: The maker of the viral “Plandemic” documentary is capping off his misinformation series with a musical film premiering on March 9 in Las Vegas. Yes, you read that correctly.

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Is censorship better done by the government or by the tech platforms? Neither, writes Gordon Crovitz. 'People should get control over what they see online, including in social media feeds, search results, and AI responses.'

Read more in Reality Check: newsguardrealitycheck.com/p/reality-chec…

A routine American Red Cross questionnaire for potential blood donors morphed into a baseless vaccine rumor peddled by health misinformers with large online followings.

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In today's Reality Check: KFC is falsely accused of insulting Palestinian refugees.

Plus: Navalny widow targeted by deepfakes; AI fuels gender hoax about Macron’s wife; launch of NewsGuard’s 2024 Election Misinformation Tracker

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The news rating service NewsGuard is adding more automation tools as it works to track election-related misinformation efforts. digiday.com/media/newsguar…

In today's Reality Check commentary, NewsGuard co-CEO Steven Brill writes about the current SCOTUS social media case and how, with Section 230 in place, it will continue giving platforms the freedom to 'edit' recklessly.

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