New: This photo of Kristi Noem's dead dog went viral on the left. It's fake. An image that is being characterized by left-wing websites, commentators, local TV stations, and animal rights groups as depicting the deceased dog is actually of a living dog named Blue owned by a man

There's always a Florida connection: An ex-Palm Beach County Sheriff deputy is tied to a network of 167 Russian disinformation sites mimicking local news outlets, NewsGuard finds. nbcnews.com/news/us-news/f…

Joey Votto led his league in OBP 7 times only players to do so more in MLB history: Ted Williams (12), Barry Bonds (10), Babe Ruth (10) & Rogers Hornsby (9)

Call me Deacon Blues.

“I’m not sure I’m the most credible source because I don’t actually know the person who lost the cat.” An exclusive NewsGuard report reveals that the explosive claim that Haitian migrants in Springfield, Ohio, are stealing and eating pets was ultimately based on triple hearsay

Loved this Mothman Festival travelogue by my friend @brandontberry. daytondailynews.com/lifestyles/wha…

NewsGuard debunks an unverified “grooming” accusation against Tim Walz that was promoted by Russian disinformation operative John Dougan. Read Reality Check for NewsGuard’s report on how Walz’s background as a schoolteacher and LGBTQ+ advocate was targeted by a Russian

SCOOP: Remember the baseless conspiracy being pushed on here last week about Tim Walz abusing a former student? Turns out, it came from Russia... wired.com/story/russian-…

“‘On a day-to-day basis, the psychic pivot to the Dead is Phil Lesh, the most aggressive purist, the anti-philistine Artist,’ wrote Grateful Dead biographer Dennis McNally.” npr.org/2024/10/25/122…

A little treat for the bobcats

"What we actually do is provide consumers and businesses with our journalists’ assessments of the professional standards of thousands of news websites, assigning them reliability scores based on apolitical, journalistic factors ." politico.com/news/magazine/…

New from NewsGuard: "If Meta applies the same technology and rules for applying community notes to posts that it has used for fact checker-generated labels, the results are likely to be no more promising." newsguardrealitycheck.com/p/special-repo…

"Chinese artificial intelligence firm DeepSeek’s new chatbot failed to provide accurate information about news and information topics 83 percent of the time, scoring 10th out of 11 in comparison to its leading Western competitors, a NewsGuard audit found." newsguardrealitycheck.com/p/deepseek-deb…

"Falsehoods advanced by Musk range from the 2022 baseless allegation that Paul Pelosi was attacked by a male prostitute, to the bogus claim that Haitian migrants in Springfield, Ohio, killed and ate pet cats."

A well-funded Moscow-based global ‘news’ network has infected Western AI tools worldwide with Russian propaganda. Read the special report in Reality Check: newsguardrealitycheck.com/p/a-well-funde…

"A national YouGov survey commissioned by NewsGuard found that one third of Americans believe at least one false claim being spread by Russian media outlets." newsguardrealitycheck.com/p/one-third-of…

As Canada approaches its first federal election since Meta barred the nation's news outlets from sharing content on its platforms, social media users have filled the void with false claims — mostly targeting Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney. newsguardrealitycheck.com/i/162124066/wi…

NewsGuard found that the false claims range from the bizarre — such as the claim that Trump cut off Obama from receiving royalties for the name 'Obamacare' — to the policy-oriented, such as the claim that Trump canceled taxes on overtime pay. newsguardrealitycheck.com/p/100-days-134…

"One of the U.S. government’s new advisors on vaccine recommendations, Dr. Robert Malone ... has personally pushed 13 claims from NewGuard’s Misinformation Fingerprints database of provably false claims" open.substack.com/pub/newsguardt…

"Conservative and pro-Russian social media accounts cited an outdated video of the Mexican president as the basis for their claims she was fomenting protests in Los Angeles, according to NewsGuard, a fact-checking website" nbcnews.com/politics/natio…