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Introducing: NewsGuard’s False Claim of the Week
Also in today’s edition: During an Oval Office meeting with South Africa’s president, Trump cites American Thinker, a website rated as unreliable by NewsGuard. Also, liberals embrace an AI deepfake of Pope Leo XIV and Trump administration officials blame Canada for the U.S. fentanyl crisis.
Today’s newsletter was edited by Sofia Rubinson and Eric Effron.
Today, NewsGuard is introducing a new feature, “False Claim of the Week,” which highlights a false claim from NewsGuard’s Misinformation Fingerprints proprietary database of provably false claims and their debunks. The claim of white genocide in South Africa was deemed the “False Claim of the Week” due to its widespread appearance across social media platforms and websites, its high engagement levels, and the high-profile nature of the sources promoting it. Given those three factors in addition to its significant subject matter — its potential for harm makes it our False Claim of the Week. (Note: The 23 false claims covered this week were published between May...
Lee Jae-myung, the Democratic Party of Korea presidential candidate, is at the center of debates in the political arena surrounding the 'Gyeonggi Siheung Turtle Island Wave Park,' which he promoted...