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The Lie That Trump Yelled at His Cabinet to Block Epstein Files Confounds Two Thirds of Americans
NewsGuard’s Reality Gap Index was 47 percent in November, inching one percent higher than October’s rate. Nearly half of Americans surveyed reported that they believe one of the top three false claims spreading online identified by NewsGuard. The claims this month involved President Donald Trump’s actions regarding the Jeffrey Epstein files, New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani’s minimum wage promises, and the accused assassin of conservative influencer Charlie Kirk.
NewsGuard’s Reality Gap Index is the nation’s first ongoing measurement of Americans’ propensity to believe at least one of the top three false claims circulating online each month, sourced from NewsGuard’s False Claims Fingerprints data stream. Through a monthly survey of a representative sample of Americans conducted by YouGov, the...
For now many fakes are easy to spot. But audiences could find it increasingly difficult to tell fact from fiction as tech improves Misinformation, turbocharged by AI, was hard to avoid in the hour...