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2 months ago | 
usnews.com | Amy Wong |Josh Stearns |Eric Effron |McKenzie Sadeghi
I’m 18 years old, and from the age of 6, I’ve been very online – watching Minecraft YouTube videos for hours, scouring Reddit pages and chatting about politics on social media with people across the country. You name it; I’ve done it. Despite this illustrious digital career, over the last few months, I’ve been duped by online misinformation more times than I’d like – from false claims about politics designed to outrage to fake images of Taylor Swift generated by artificial intelligence.
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Oct 30, 2024 | 
usnews.com | Josh Stearns |Eric Effron |McKenzie Sadeghi |Judy Ho
The rise of the internet 25 years ago promised a new era in access to information. We now understand that this revolution led to both a flourishing of knowledge and an explosion in news and information from unverified sources. At the same time, the shift in advertising to the web undermined the business model for news, killing thousands of newspapers and magazines across America.
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Oct 17, 2024 | 
newsguardrealitycheck.com | Eric Effron |McKenzie Sadeghi
Welcome to Reality Check, your inside look at how misinformation online is undermining trust — and who’s behind it.
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Aug 21, 2024 | 
newsguardrealitycheck.com | Eric Effron
Welcome to Reality Check, your inside look at how misinformation online is undermining trust — and who’s behind it. By Eric Effron, NewsGuard Editorial DirectorWhen we think of how misinformation spreads, we often think of hostile foreign governments pushing disinformation or hucksters publishing false or divisive claims to attract eyeballs and ad dollars. Increasingly, however, the fault is satire presented as fact.
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Aug 2, 2024 | 
newsguardrealitycheck.com | Eric Effron
Welcome to Reality Check, your inside look at how misinformation online is undermining trust — and who’s behind it. By Eric Effron, NewsGuard Editorial DirectorFact checkers like things to be black and white, but sometimes, we are just stuck with grays.
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Jun 12, 2024 | 
newsguardrealitycheck.com | Eric Effron
Welcome to NewsGuard's Reality Check, a report on how misinformation online is undermining trust — and who’s behind it. By Eric Effron, NewsGuard Editorial DirectorNewsGuard reported yesterday in Reality Check that the number of pink slime websites — those that present themselves as neutral news outlets but are secretly backed by partisan groups or hostile foreign governments — has surpassed the number of authentic daily local newspapers in the United States.
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Jun 5, 2024 | 
newsguardrealitycheck.com | Eric Effron
Welcome to NewsGuard's Reality Check, a report on how misinformation online is undermining trust — and who’s behind it. By Eric Effron, NewsGuard Editorial DirectorDid you hear that Donald Trump is constitutionally barred from running for president because he is now a convicted felon? Or that a bunch of judges and prosecutors involved in the multiple cases against Trump were arrested and charged with treason?
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May 22, 2024 | 
newsguardrealitycheck.com | Eric Effron
Welcome to NewsGuard's Reality Check, a report on how misinformation online is undermining trust — and who’s behind it. By Eric Effron, NewsGuard Editorial DirectorIt used to be said that a picture is worth a thousand words. These days, it might be better to stick with the words. NewsGuard analysts are increasingly finding true claims that have been embellished to the point of misrepresentation with videos and photos — apparently to make the actual facts more dramatic.
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May 8, 2024 | 
newsguardrealitycheck.com | Eric Effron
Welcome to NewsGuard's Reality Check, a report on how misinformation online is undermining trust — and who’s behind it. By Eric Effron, NewsGuard Editorial DirectorProtests over the Israel-Hamas war have placed a spotlight on the role and integrity of journalism. An interview last week by MSNBC prime-time host Joy Reid of Jelani Cobb, dean of the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, served as a vivid snapshot of our current discourse.
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Dec 29, 2023 | 
italian.tech | Sara Badilini |Jack Brewster |Eric Effron |Zack Fishman |Sam Howard |Natalie Huet | +5 more
L'ascesa dell'intelligenza artificiale nel 2023 ha trasformato l’ecosistema della misinformazione e della disinformazione, fornendo nuovi strumenti ai malintenzionati per creare articoli, immagini, audio, video e persino interi siti, all’apparenza simili a quelli tradizionali, per promuovere narrazioni false o polarizzanti destinate a seminare confusione e sfiducia tra i lettori.
