Misinformation And Disinformation Blog Posts
Misinformation Watch: Did COVID-19 Leak From a Chinese Lab?
Misinformation Watch / April 25th, 2025 / by Henry A. Brechter

Almost immediately after the COVID-19 pandemic began, people speculated about how it started. Most of this focused on China, where the pandemic began, and specifically on the city of Wuhan.
See moreMisinformation Watch: Misleading Election ‘Vote Gap’ Theory Goes Viral
Misinformation Watch / November 18th, 2024 / by Andrew Weinzierl

A graph from ZeroHedge (Lean Right bias) posted on X circulated to tens of millions of people, purporting that in the 2012, 2016, and 2024 presidential elections, Democrats only received about 66 mill...
See moreDeep Dive: Misleading Claims About Hurricane Relief and FEMA
Misinformation Watch / October 9th, 2024 / by Clare Ashcraft

Hurricane Helene and FEMA’s response to it have sparked misleading narratives about FEMA’s funding, its priorities and management, weather control and lithium mining.
See moreWhen Bias Tells The Truth
Bias / September 4th, 2024 / by AllSides Staff
Misinformation Watch: Did Google Omit Trump Assassination Attempt Searches 'By Design'?
Misinformation Watch / August 23rd, 2024 / by Olivia Geno

Recently, Google issued a letter in response to requests by Republican members of Congress for information regarding issues with its Autocomplete search function failing to provide suggestions related...
See moreMisinformation and Hyper Division, Democracy’s Biggest Threat and Opportunity
Recommended Reading / August 9th, 2024 / by John Gable, AllSides Co-founder

At the Future of Democracy Forum, a diverse group of leaders reached a key point of consensus—social breakdown is a far bigger threat to our democracies than we’re acknowledging. We must meet this div...
See moreIs Facebook’s Moderation Policy Biased? Here are Meta’s Fact Checking Partners
Recommended Reading / July 9th, 2024 / by Clare Ashcraft

All of Meta's U.S. based fact checking partners have a Left, Lean Left, or Center AllSides Media Bias Rating.
See moreViral Videos of President Biden: ‘Cheap Fakes’ or Real Concerns?
Misinformation Watch / June 19th, 2024 / by Henry A. Brechter
Facts vs Myths: Was Hunter Biden’s Laptop Russian Disinformation?
Misinformation Watch / June 12th, 2024 / by Ethan Horowitz

The Hunter Biden laptop story has accentuated the disparity in media coverage from left and right outlets as much as any story since Joe Biden became president.
See moreIs The New York Times Fake News?
Bias / January 2nd, 2024 / by Henry A. Brechter

Like many other major news sources, AllSides has noted several occasions when the New York Times harmed its credibility.
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