Sam Howard

@newsguardrating journalist. Expat Ohioan, @ohiou alum. Deadhead. Runner. Cincinnati Reds fan.

[Sam Howard @SamuelHHoward]

"Conservative and pro-Russian social media accounts cited an outdated video of the Mexican president as the basis for their claims she was fomenting protests in Los Angeles, according to NewsGuard, a fact-checking website" https://t.co/K3VCrEXClP

[Sam Howard @SamuelHHoward]

"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" https://t.co/ZB8s9Tj74M

[Sam Howard @SamuelHHoward]

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.

https://t.co/ovqEB7leE6

[NewsGuard @NewsGuardRating]

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.

https://t.co/wW9yVNSpxv

[Sam Howard @SamuelHHoward]

"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."
https://t.co/WBGYjuVDcz

[NewsGuard @NewsGuardRating]

A well-funded Moscow-based global ‘news’ network has infected Western AI tools worldwide with Russian propaganda.

Read the special report in Reality Check: https://t.co/RSbPi08jX9

[Sam Howard @SamuelHHoward]

"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."

[Sofia Rubinson @RubinsonSofia]

New: A NewsGuard analysis has found that, since acquiring the platform, Elon Musk has posted or reposted 28 significant false claims to X that have gained more than 825 million views.
https://t.co/japTF32IyR

[Sam Howard @SamuelHHoward]

"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." https://t.co/3RYfVhmCre

[Sam Howard @SamuelHHoward]

New from @NewsGuardRating: "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." https://t.co/eWfgFO0YFv

[Sam Howard @SamuelHHoward]

"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 ." https://t.co/cGnbscr8GL

[James Austin Johnson @JAJCenter]

A little treat for the bobcats

[Sam Howard @SamuelHHoward]

“‘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.”

https://t.co/hWtxrJBMws

[David Gilbert @daithaigilbert]

SCOOP:

Remember the baseless conspiracy being pushed on here last week about Tim Walz abusing a former student?

Turns out, it came from Russia...

https://t.co/YCejpBjzVa

[NewsGuard @NewsGuardRating]

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 disinformation operative, a QAnon podcast, and right-wing social media
https://t.co/obpcWAV5Wr

[Sam Howard @SamuelHHoward]

Loved this Mothman Festival travelogue by my friend @brandontberry. https://t.co/utQP8av5Fi

[NewsGuard @NewsGuardRating]

“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 by local residents with no direct knowledge of such behavior.

Read it in Reality Check: https://t.co/z6p1Dex2cU

[Sam Howard @SamuelHHoward]

Call me Deacon Blues.

[Brett McMurphy @Brett_McMurphy]

Florida State's 2025 season opener? Alabama in Tallahassee

[Sam Howard @SamuelHHoward]

@torriangray Hi, I'm a journalist with NewsGuard working on a report about the spread of this caption. Can you follow me back so we can DM? Thanks!

[Sam Howard @SamuelHHoward]

@WUTangKids Hi, I'm a journalist with NewsGuard working on a report about the spread of this caption, which didn't appear in the event's C-SPAN transcript and seems to have been created as a joke last week. Can you follow me back so we can DM? Thanks!

[Sarah Langs @SlangsOnSports]

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)