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Welcome to Reality Check Podcast, an AI-generated podcast that helps you understand the false claims and conspiracy theories that shape our world—and who’s behind them. This podcast is based on the Reality Check newsletter published by a team of journalists at NewsGuard. We bring to you a wrap up of all of your favorite hits in the newsletters from the previous week. This podcast features AI hosts generated using Google's NotebookLM, but everything in the podcast is based on human reporting. www.newsguardrealitycheck.com
Unknown Host hosts Reality Check by NewsGuard, a news show with 27 episodes published.
This week’s episode discusses how high-profile conservatives, including President Donald Trump, falsely claimed that California’s primary elections were rigged against Republican candidates. We also cover a Russian-made
This week’s episode explores how a database vulnerable to manipulation is being used by health hoax sites to draw a false correlation between GLP-1 weight-loss drugs and suicidal thoughts. We also cover Russia’s efforts
This week’s episode covers a recent NewsGuard/YouGov poll that found that one in four Americans believe Trump “staged” the attempt on his life at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner. Our AI hosts break down the striki
This week’s episode covers the BlueAnon conspiracy that the shooting at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner was orchestrated by the Trump administration, which received more than 90 million views across the social med
This week’s episode covers a JAMA study’s finding that health care-related institutions, ranging from pharmaceutical companies to government health agencies, spent tens of millions in advertising dollars on news websites
This week’s episode covers how misleading content including AI-generated visuals are being weaponized across the Iran conflict — and how that’s reshaping what people trust online. From a recycled battlefield image falsel
This week’s episode covers a twist in the AI misinformation playbook: false claims that authentic content is actually AI-generated. From a real video of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu accused of being a deepfa
This week’s episode covers NewsGuard’s extensive coverage on false claims surrounding the Iran war, from misleading visuals to AI tools repeating disinformation. We also tackle how Iranian state media has evolved to prod
This week’s episode covers NewsGuard’s audit of leading AI audio bots, which found that ChatGPT and Gemini advance false claims on topics in the news about 50 percent of the time, while Alexa+ appears to have effective g
This week’s episode covers NewsGuard’s reporting on the Jan. 30, 2026, release of the “Epstein files” and the wave of AI-generated content that followed, falsely linking prominent political leaders to Jeffrey Epstein and
This week’s episode covers a Jan. 22 NewsGuard report that assessed whether leading chatbots ChatGPT, Grok, and Gemini can be counted on to determine the authenticity of videos made with OpenAI’s Sora text-to-video gener
This week’s episode covers NewsGuard’s reporting on the use of AI images and out-of-context visuals to falsely portray the capture of Venezuela’s Nicolás Maduro. We also detail how AI images of the Jan. 7 ICE shooting in
This week’s episode covers false claims about the horrific Hanukkah massacre in Sydney, Australia, with falsehoods aimed at the victims, the alleged shooters, and the man who disarmed one of the perpetrators. We break do
This week’s episode covers NewsGuard’s False Claim of the Week — the falsehood that 59 percent of undocumented immigrants collect SNAP food-stamp benefits. We also expose how Russia’s propaganda outlet RT celebrated its
This week’s episode covers NewsGuard’s False Claim of the Week — the falsehood that 59 percent of undocumented immigrants collect SNAP food-stamp benefits. We also expose how Russia’s propaganda outlet RT celebrated its
This week’s episode covers NewsGuard’s False Claim of the Week — the falsehood that 59 percent of undocumented immigrants collect SNAP food-stamp benefits. We also expose how Russia’s propaganda outlet RT celebrated its
This week’s episode covers the ease with which OpenAI’s Sora can generate realistic deepfake videos designed to spread false claims in the news at scale. We also unpack how a fabricated corruption claim about Volodymyr Z
This week’s episode covers the unfounded hysteria surrounding a rumored spike in Tylenol overdoses among pregnant women supposedly looking to spite President Trump. We also unpack a prominent false claim about the Michig
This week’s episode covers false claims about Charlie Kirk’s assassination, including claims originating from Russian, Chinese, and Iranian state media that aim to sow division and undermine Western allies. Get full acce
This podcast is created based on NewsGuard's Reality Check newsletter using Google's NotebookLM AI tool. Each podcast's content is closely reviewed by NewsGuard's team of journalists for accuracy. For more information on
Tucker Carlson
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Robert F Kennedy
U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services · U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
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Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
2024 Presidential Campaign Communications Director · U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
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