Midterm Watch: Alabama Senator Falsely Accused of Saying ‘America Deserved 9/11’

Social media accounts promote long-discredited radium water as a cure-all. PLUS: Introducing “Midterms Watch”

Anti-vaccine activists claim that cancer rates among dogs and cats are soaring, and that vaccines are to blame. The evidence suggests otherwise.

Conservatives falsely claim that COVID-19 vaccines are linked to an increased risk of miscarriage: NewsGuard’s False Claim of the Week

Conservative commentators and news sites are citing a January 2021 text message from Dr. Fauci to wrongly claim that COVID-19 vaccines can cause miscarriages.

AI chatbots are fast becoming a way people find news. But the systems are only as reliable as their sources, and are prone to misinformation and manipulation.

Health hoaxers — citing the increase in a tick-borne red meat and dairy allergy — flood social media with false claims, including ones aimed at Gates.

Health hoax sites falsely claim that an August 2024 study proves that GLP-1 treatments cause a 45 percent increase in suicidal ideation.

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“Peddlers of false claims are fighting to keep their alternate reality of COVID myths alive,” NewsGuard Health Editor John Gregory writes in a commentary.

X owner promotes the claim that COVID vaccines killed 60,000 people in Germany.

Four false claims about the U.K. meningitis outbreak follow the COVID-era hoax handbook

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NewsGuard has collected 1,000 provably false statements in its False Claim Fingerprints database. Many involve misrepresented research.

Prominent anti-vaxxers falsely claim that hepatitis B vaccination for newborns is unjustified, pointing to the CDC’s revised recommendations.

NewsGuard spoke to experts who dismissed a widely-promoted new report claiming to link vaccines to autism as based on misinterpreted data

Casey Means, Trump’s pick for Surgeon General, has advanced five provably false health claims since 2024, including that vaccines cause autism

Conspiracy theorists are claiming that the government shutdown ended the practice of controlling the population through ‘chemtrails’ — a phenomenon that doesn’t actually exist

No evidence supports a growing right-wing claim that liberal pregnant women are overdosing on Tylenol as a protest against Trump

False claims, including that the Amish don’t have autism because they are not vaccinated, surged following the Trump administration’s Sept. 22 press conference

The leader of a new federal working group on COVID-19 vaccines has a long record of spreading false claims about vaccines.

A pro-Russian propaganda group is taking advantage of high-profile news events to spread disinformation — and they’re spoofing reputable news outlets to do it.

Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. advanced three false claims about COVID-19 vaccines to explain his cancellation of $500 million in government-funded mRNA vaccine projects.

A NewsGuard study finds 49 percent of Americans believe false online claims, with only 7 percent correctly identifying all as untrue.

Since January, the Nation’s Top Health Official Has Advanced 12 False Health Claims Gaining 25 Million Views on X Alone

By John Gregory

By John Gregory

Dr. Robert Malone has promoted 13 provably false claims from NewsGuard’s database

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NewsGuard has identified 103 different false claims promoted by Kennedy.

By John Gregory

By John Gregory

By John Gregory

Until I left last week, I led the CDC’s public health messaging. Now we need something to replace it.

Children’s Health Defense, founded by the health secretary, had published online a vaccine-safety page that looked like the agency’s but that suggested links to autism.