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* I’m neither “pro-AI” nor “anti-AI.” I’ve been blocked for being perceived as both. —Actually, I’m honestly more anti-AI than pro-AI thus far, aside from specialized models and specific use cases, but I’m willing to consider information that’s new to me
Google Earth’s New AI Lets Anyone Fabricate Completely Bullshit Satellite Images
"Tonight I typed just one sentence into Google Earth and put refugees near the Mexican border. Then I planted a nuclear plant in Iran. Then I put a fatal crash on a street in Amsterdam."
New Google Earth AI tool could fuel misinformation, experts say
Experts tell BBC Verify Google's new feature which lets people generate fake satellite images could be misused.
Anti-immigration AI videos traced to overseas fakers, BBC finds
"Patriotic" UK anti-immigration social media accounts have been traced to Sri Lanka and Vietnam.
Every Day is April Fool’s Day Now
Deepfakes, Puffy Popes, AI-generated Trump arrest photos, articles written by GPT-4: We're living in a world where fear of being fooled is constant.
Tracking AI-enabled Misinformation: 3,006 AI Content Farm sites (and Counting), Plus the Top False Claims Generated by Artificial Intelligence Tools
Coverage by McKenzie Sadeghi, Dimitris Dimitriadis, Virginia Padovese, Giulia Pozzi, Sara Badilini, Chiara Vercellone, Natalie Huet, Zack Fishman, Leonie Pfaller, and Natalie Adams | Last Updated March 17, 2026
AI False Claims Monitor
As the domain experts in data reliability in the topic of news and information, NewsGuard provides the leading red-teaming analysis for information reliability. AI models continue to face significant challenges in ensuring their models provide safe, accurate responses to prompts instead of spreading false claims on the internet or refusing to respond to topics in the news.
May 2025 — AI Misinformation Monitor of Leading AI Chatbots
Every month, NewsGuard’s team of expert analysts audit the top AI models to see how well they respond to prompts in the news. On average, this month they failed to counter disinformation from Russia’s Pravda Network 24 percent of the time, either spreading false claims or failing to respond. The Pravda network was designed to infect the AI models.
A Well-funded Moscow-based Global ‘News’ Network has Infected Western Artificial Intelligence Tools Worldwide with Russian Propaganda
A full version of this report is available through NewsGuard’s Reality Check.
Quarterly AI False Claim Monitor — January 2026
To download this NewsGuard report, please fill out your details below and you will be redirected to it. If you'd like to learn more about working with NewsGuard, email [email protected].
Anthropic’s AI Chatbot Is Leaning More on Russian and Iranian Propaganda Sources, NewsGuard Audit Finds
By Lea Marchl, Ines Chomnalez, and Isis Blachez | Published on May 4, 2026
ロシアのプロパガンダはAIの「脳」に埋め込まれたのか――Common Crawl訓練データ汚染の実証 | INODS UNVEIL
1. はじめに 生成AIが回答の根拠とする情報は、どこから来ているのか。もしその情報源そのものが、国家のプロパガンダによって汚染されていたとしたら？ 今回は、米シンクタンク Atlantic CouncilのDigital Forensic
Pravda in the pipeline: Early evidence of state-adjacent propaganda in AI training data
An audit of Common Crawl reveals presence of Pravda and Glassbridge content in popular archive service, with further signs of LLM ingestion.
Election Disinformation in Different Languages is a Big Problem in the U.S.
And it’s driving a wedge between voters in non-English communities Mis- and disinformation about elections predate the endless scroll of modern social media services. [1] Yet easy access to online information channels and amplification tools enable false narratives to spread at a massive scale. When false narratives are combined with data voids and unique cultural […]
ファクトチェックの限界とAI汚染の加速 「確かめる気はない」が最多の現状での対策は【情報インテグリティ】
ファクトチェックの記事数は2025年に激増したが、伸びしろは限定的。一方で情報環境はAIの影響もあり悪化が加速している。4月2日に開かれた情報インテグリティシンポジウムで、日本ファクトチェックセンター（JFC）編集長の古田大輔が報告した日本の偽・誤情報の現状と今後について、文字起こしをしました。 読みやすさのために一部編集しています。動画は最後に埋め込んでいます。 日本ファクトチェックセンターの検証記事は2年で倍増 日本ファクトチェックセンター（JFC）編集長の古田大輔です。今日は「広がり始めたファクトチェックと悪化する情報環境」というテーマでお話しします。 まず、JFCのファクトチェックの数です。2022年の10月にローンチして、2023年から見ていくと、昨年は2倍以上に増えています。1年目が173本、2年目が330本、3年目が365本。これは、偽情報が増えたという意味ではありません。 ファクトチェック記事が増えたのは、我々の能力が増したということです。 ただ、2024年から2025年は10.6%しか伸びていません。我々の組織の規模感で言うと、月に3
「スマホ農場」でつくる閲覧数 SNS時代の「正義」に現実が揺らぐ：朝日新聞
「スマホ農場」という聞き慣れない言葉を聞いた。SNS上で実態のない閲覧数をつくる拠点という。 ユーチューブで仕組みを解説するグループに連絡すると、取材を受けると返事が来た。 2月、朝日新聞東京本社に…
Israel-Iran conflict unleashes wave of AI disinformation
Fake AI videos relating to the conflict have gained over 100 million views online, BBC Verify finds.
UN Global Communications Chief urges AI developers to ‘Put people before profit’
AI-powered hate content is on the rise, experts say | CBC News
Experts say that artificial intelligence technology is allowing for a rapid increase in the amount of hateful content and misinformation online.
Update: Google just sent me a statement saying it is “rolling back” this AI feature that let anyone make completely bullshit satellite images. Comes after our demos of the tool and those from OSINT researchers. One of the worst AI tools I’ve ever seen bsky.app/profile/josephcox.bsky.social…
Joseph Cox
New from 404 Media: Google Earth has introduced an AI feature that lets anyone fabricate completely bullshit satellite images. In our own tests, we added a “bomb blast and crater” to an area of Los Angeles. This is a misinformation time bomb, will 100% be abused 404media.co/google-earths-new-ai-lets-any…
