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.

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 down how these narratives spread in different corners of the internet and why they continued to gain traction despite clear evidence to the contrary.

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 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 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.