Steven Brill

Journalist; founder, Yale Journalism Initiative, Court TV, The American Lawyer, Press+, @NewsGuardrating; author, "America's Bitter Pill" and "Tailspin"

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Google’s new text-to-image generator Nano Banana Pro, lauded for its highly realistic AI images, advanced false claims 100% of the time when prompted to do so, a NewsGuard analysis found.

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In @WIRED: how foreign actors exploit data voids, featuring expertise from NewsGuard's @SadeghiMckenzie.

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NewsGuard today published its anniversary edition of the AI False Claims Monitor, the monthly benchmark for how AI tools handle provably false claims.

For the first time, NewsGuard de-anonymized the results and named scores for the top LLMs.

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A fake screenshot of a headline can spread faster than a correction.

NewsGuard explains how to use Google advanced search to confirm whether a headline ever actually appeared on an authentic site.

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We are aware of Russian influence campaigns impersonating NewsGuard employees.

Official NewsGuard emails follow the format of [email protected] — anything else is a scam.

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Politico cites NewsGuard’s expertise tracking a pro-Russian propaganda group.

“If even just one or a few of their fake videos go viral per year, that makes all of the other videos worth it,” says NewsGuard's @SadeghiMckenzie

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Silence is telling: Even when evidence of hostile foreign manipulation is clear and well-documented, tech platforms are slow to respond, if they respond at all.

Read about NewsGuard’s experience being targeted by a Russian foreign influence campaign.

https://t.co/l1dExlVDWV

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Pro-Russian social media accounts are citing decade-old data to claim that BMW sold thousands of luxury SUVs to Russia in 2024, in violation of EU sanctions forbidding luxury car sales to Russia after it invaded Ukraine.

Read it in Reality Check: https://t.co/G3gDeV9a7j

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Today in Reality Check, NewsGuard unpacks three false claims related to COVID-19 vaccines that RFK Jr. advanced to explain his cancellation of $500 million in government-funded mRNA vaccine projects.

Read it here: https://t.co/UwvNG6HKi6

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Social media users are falsely claiming that Barack Obama sold his Martha’s Vineyard estate to businessman Les Wexner, a former close associate of the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

Read it in Reality Check: https://t.co/cpXlHU4HAQ

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Miss last week's Reality Check? Catch up with the latest episode of NewsGuard's Reality Check Podcast, covering RFK Jr., DOGE's 'Big Balls,' and Obama's Martha's Vineyard estate.

https://t.co/THFBEIjX8k

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NewsGuard’s "False Claim of the Week": Russia Captured Two UK Colonels and an MI6 Agent in Ukraine in July 2025

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Today in Reality Check:
-Venezuela didn’t offer $50 million reward for Epstein files
-Pro-Iran sources claim California is seceding from the union due to U.S. support for Israel
-Instagram falsely accused of violating user privacy with new map feature

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NewsGuard is yet again targeted by a Russian propaganda campaign — a sign of how Russia’s well-funded propaganda apparatus aims to obfuscate and to overwhelm factcheckers, with the ultimate goal of eroding trust entirely.

Read it in Reality Check: https://t.co/SOMefK7lTz

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Social media users are falsely claiming that a new map feature on Instagram automatically shares a user’s precise location unless they turn it off,  violating users’ privacy.

Read about it in Reality Check: https://t.co/jV5S9CIJdy

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NewGuard has become the target of the Kremlin-backed propaganda operation, Matryoshka. The  Russian influence campaign is impersonating NewsGuard and making baseless accusations.

Read more about it here:
https://t.co/l1dExlWbMt

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Want to avoid being duped by a fabricated social media post? NewGuard explains how to spot them. Watch a clip below, and click the link for the full video:

https://t.co/ytD5AsiMUi

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Today in Reality Check:
-Oprah didn’t block a tsunami escape route in Maui
-Ukrainian women refugees are falsely accused of spiking French divorce rates by having affairs with married men
-1920s hoax cure for poor eyesight makes a dangerous comeback

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NewsGuard’s “False Claim of the Week”: The Missing $100 Million Raised for Victims of the 2025 Southern California Wildfires by California Charity FireAid

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