Dem Campaign Ads Cite Soros-Backed Fake News Sites to Sway Voters in Key Races
2026 Midterm Elections,Elections,Media Industry,Misinformation,NewsGuard,Advertising,Campaign Ads,Politics,Democratic Party
Voters in key races in Iowa and Ohio are being peppered with campaign messaging that relies on misleading claims made by biased websites parading as nonpartisan news sources.
NewsGuard, a controversial tool in its own right that provides "trust ratings" for news and information websites, found video ads for the make-or-break races featured on-screen citations of George Soros-backed and other "pink slime" websites that "present themselves as professional news outlets but are secretly backed by partisan groups with a clear though undisclosed agenda."
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