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4 weeks ago | 
newsguardrealitycheck.com | Natalie Huet |McKenzie Sadeghi |Chine Labbé
By Natalie Huet, McKenzie Sadeghi, and Chine LabbeA Russian propaganda operation that previously took aim at elections in the U.S. and Germany has a new target: France. NewsGuard found that Storm-1516 — a Russian influence operation that includes the efforts of John Mark Dougan, a former Florida deputy sheriff granted asylum in Moscow turned Kremlin propagandist that uses AI to create and spread false claims — targeted France with five false narratives from December 2024 to March 2025.
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4 weeks ago | 
newsguardtech.com | Natalie Huet |McKenzie Sadeghi |Chine Labbé
A full version of this report is available through NewsGuard’s Reality Check. By Natalie Huet, McKenzie Sadeghi, and Chine Labbe | Published April 17, 2025A Russian propaganda operation that previously took aim at elections in the U.S. and Germany has a new target: France.
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Jul 15, 2024 | 
newsguardrealitycheck.com | Jack Brewster |Eva Maitland |Natalie Huet |Leonie Pfaller
Welcome to NewsGuard's Reality Check, a report on how misinformation online is undermining trust — and who’s behind it. Today:Competing false narratives flood social media after Trump attackPig Heads and Bugattis: A Russian propagandist expands his reach VA, Home Depot advertise on site promoting election hoaxAnd more…Today’s newsletter was edited byJack Brewster and Eric Effron.
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Jul 15, 2024 | 
open.substack.com | Jack Brewster |Eva Maitland |Natalie Huet |Leonie Pfaller
Welcome to NewsGuard's Reality Check, a report on how misinformation online is undermining trust — and who’s behind it. Today:Competing false narratives flood social media after Trump attackPig Heads and Bugattis: A Russian propagandist expands his reach VA, Home Depot advertise on site promoting election hoaxAnd more…Today’s newsletter was edited byJack Brewster and Eric Effron.
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Jul 12, 2024 | 
newsguardrealitycheck.com | Coalter Palmer |Natalie Huet |Sarah Komar
Welcome to NewsGuard's Reality Check, a report on how misinformation online is undermining trust — and who’s behind it. Today:Exclusive: AI-generated TikTok content farms push political misinformation at scaleA viral false claim about Joe Biden’s “medical emergency” shows the value of “pre-bunking”And more…Today’s newsletter was edited byJack Brewster and Eric Effron.
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Jul 8, 2024 | 
newsguardrealitycheck.com | Natalie Huet |Chine Labbé |Eva Maitland |Natalie Adams
Welcome to NewsGuard's Reality Check, a report on how misinformation online is undermining trust — and who’s behind it. Today:Surprising election results in France spark baseless fraud claimsPro-Kremlin QAnon sites push pedophile claims ahead of U.K. electionSatirical swinger book misrepresented as children’s literatureAnd more…Today’s newsletter was edited byJack Brewster and Eric Effron. We’re interested in your feedback about the length and frequency of Reality Check.
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May 12, 2024 | 
newsguardtech.com | Chine Labbé |Natalie Huet |McKenzie Sadeghi |Isis Blachez
By Isis Blachez and Chine Labbé | Last updated July 23, 2024From July 26 to Aug. 11, 2024, Paris will host the Olympic Games, for the third time in history. For several months, a barrage of false claims on the high-visibility, international sporting event has spread on social media and unreliable news sites.
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Mar 25, 2024 | 
newsguardrealitycheck.com | Jack Brewster |McKenzie Sadeghi |Natalie Adams |Natalie Huet
Welcome to NewsGuard's Reality Check, a report on how misinformation online is undermining trust — and who’s behind it. Today:Slime time: More secretly partisan pink slime news sites launched as election loomsDon’t just do it: False accusations against Nike sparked by pro-Israel sneakerAI content farms spread like weedsAnd more…Today’s newsletter was edited by Jack Brewster and Eric Effron. By Jack Brewster and McKenzie SadeghiJust what our media ecosystem needs: more deception.
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Mar 18, 2024 | 
newsguardrealitycheck.com | Eva Maitland |Natalie Huet |Chiara Vercellone |Andie Slomka
Welcome to NewsGuard's Reality Check, a report on how misinformation online is undermining trust — and who’s behind it. Today:Disco deception: Russia deepfakes a dancing French President MacronFlight fiction: Debunking false claims about Biden's migrant airliftsInventor of the popular card game “Scruples” has a misinformation side gigAnd more…Today’s newsletter was edited by Jack Brewster and Eric Effron. By Eva Maitland and Natalie HuetThe 1980s disco era is back, but not for a musical revival.
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Mar 15, 2024 | 
newsguardrealitycheck.com | Coalter Palmer |Chiara Vercellone |Natalie Huet
Welcome to NewsGuard's Reality Check, a report on how misinformation online is undermining trust — and who’s behind it. Today:Latest U.S. lunar mission fires up deniers on TikTokFacebook outage spawns election fraud claimsiSpy debunked: Apple's iPhone 15 is not eyeing you with hidden cameras, its French hoaxsters admit to usAnd more…Today’s newsletter was edited by Jack Brewster and Eric Effron. AI content farms are taking over the internet, and NewsGuard analysts track their spread.
