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 20th anniversary with a life-sized megaphone beside the Kremlin and celebrity guests in attendance. We end by debunking a viral false health claim, spread by Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and podcaster Tucker Carlson, that Jews and the Chinese are immune to COVID-19.

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 Zelenskyy traveled from a fringe Turkish outlet through Russian media to the mainstream platform MSN operated by Microsoft  and a member of Congress, before returning to Moscow as supposed “proof.”

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 Michigan Mormon church shooting, highlighting the growing trend of assigning fake political identities to suspects in the aftermath of mass tragedies.

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.

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 NewsGuard's use of AI to make these podcasts, read our commentary "AI Made This Podcast — But We Made Sure it Got it Right."

We launched Reality Check after seeing how much interest there is in our work beyond the business and tech communities that we serve. Subscribe to this newsletter to support our apolitical mission to counter false claims for readers, brands, and democracies. Our work is more important than ever. Have feedback? Send us an email: [email protected].

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 NewsGuard's use of AI to make these podcasts, read our commentary "AI Made This Podcast — But We Made Sure it Got it Right."

We launched Reality Check after seeing how much interest there is in our work beyond the business and tech communities that we serve. Subscribe to this newsletter to support our apolitical mission to counter false claims for readers, brands, and democracies. Our work is more important than ever. Have feedback? Send us an email: [email protected].

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 NewsGuard's use of AI to make these podcasts, read our commentary "AI Made This Podcast — But We Made Sure it Got it Right."

We launched Reality Check after seeing how much interest there is in our work beyond the business and tech communities that we serve. Subscribe to this newsletter to support our apolitical mission to counter false claims for readers, brands, and democracies. Our work is more important than ever. Have feedback? Send us an email: [email protected].

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 NewsGuard's use of AI to make these podcasts, read our commentary "AI Made This Podcast — But We Made Sure it Got it Right."

We launched Reality Check after seeing how much interest there is in our work beyond the business and tech communities that we serve. Subscribe to this newsletter to support our apolitical mission to counter false claims for readers, brands, and democracies. Our work is more important than ever. Have feedback? Send us an email: [email protected].

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 NewsGuard's use of AI to make these podcasts, read our commentary "AI Made This Podcast — But We Made Sure it Got it Right."

We launched Reality Check after seeing how much interest there is in our work beyond the business and tech communities that we serve. Subscribe to this newsletter to support our apolitical mission to counter false claims for readers, brands, and democracies. Our work is more important than ever. Have feedback? Send us an email: [email protected].

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 NewsGuard's use of AI to make these podcasts, read our commentary "AI Made This Podcast — But We Made Sure it Got it Right."

We launched Reality Check after seeing how much interest there is in our work beyond the business and tech communities that we serve. Subscribe to this newsletter to support our apolitical mission to counter misinformation for readers, brands, and democracies. Have feedback? Send us an email: [email protected].