Sam Howard

The Myths Promoted by a New CDC Vaccine Advisor Dr. Robert Malone has promoted 13 provably false claims from NewsGuard’s database

"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" www.newsguardrealitycheck.com/p/the-myths-...

TikTok Hosts Deceptive ‘Shark Tank’ Clips — for Profit TikTok accounts looking to trick users into buying their products have been misrepresenting “Shark Tank” panelist Mark Cuban’s investment decisions, NewsGuard found

@mcuban.bsky.social told @newsguard.bsky.social: "It’s messed up. I spend too much time reporting this stuff to the [Federal Trade Commission.] I hope they get busted." www.newsguardrealitycheck.com/p/tiktok-hos...

100 Days, 134 Million Views of False Claims About Trump NewsGuard has identified 20 false claims about President Trump during the launch of his second administration — most of them pushed by his supporters

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. www.newsguardrealitycheck.com/p/100-days-1...

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DeepSeek Debuts with 83 Percent ‘Fail Rate’ in NewsGuard’s Chatbot Red Team Audit The new Chinese AI tool finished 10th out of 11 industry players

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. www.newsguardrealitycheck.com/p/deepseek-d...

Before Shutdown, Meta’s Fact-Checking Program Only Labeled 14 Percent of Russian, Chinese, and Iranian Disinformation Posts Flaws in process could spill over into coming community notes system — with worse results

New from @newsguard.bsky.social: "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." www.newsguardrealitycheck.com/p/special-re...

NewsGuard co-founder Steven Brill discusses Meta's move to end fact-checking Meta's Mark Zuckerberg announced Facebook and Instagram would drop fact-checking. NPR talks with Steven Brill of NewsGuard, where journalists rate the reliability of news sources, about the move.

"When private people or private companies speak, it's called editing — not censorship. If the NY Times or NPR decides that this interview is wrong or that I'm not being responsible, you have a responsibility to edit me out. That's your job." www.npr.org/2025/01/08/n...