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 striking partisan and age divides revealed in the survey, including that 42 percent of Democrats believe the attempted assassination at the July 2024 rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, was “staged.” We also discuss the stunning pro-Russian shift of an ex-Zelensky aide, who advanced Kremlin propaganda on the Tucker Carlson Show.

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 media platform X. We also discuss how anti-vax social media accounts are falsely claiming that rising cancer rates are caused by COVID vaccines.

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 flagged by NewsGuard for spreading health misinformation. We also discuss Russian disinformation surrounding Hungary’s parliamentary elections, including that the anti-Putin party planned a Ukrainian-style coup in the event of a loss and that the incoming prime minister microwaved his puppy.

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 falsely portrayed as a U.S. soldier begging Iran for mercy to a viral AI-generated image of a missile inscribed with the slogan “No Kings,” we break down how these narratives spread across ideological lines and how the increasing presence of misinformation in social media and elsewhere online is eroding trust in authentic content.

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 deepfake video to AI-manipulated graphics overstating global fuel shortages, we break down two methods for how state-linked actors are using AI narratives to distort reality.

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 produce convincing AI propaganda targeted at its own population.

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 guardrails. We also report on a viral iPhone hoax originating from an Indonesian-based TikTok account that is attempting to impersonate Apple.

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 his crimes. It also explores a NewsGuard red-teaming effort to assess how easily top AI image generators can be used to create Epstein deepfakes.

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 generator. (Hint: They can not). We also examine false claims coming out of Russia targeting Europe’s anxieties over Greenland — all of which impersonate legitimate news outlets to deceive viewers.

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 Minneapolis attempted to reframe events and falsely identify the ICE agent involved.