Pangram Labs, a Brooklyn-based startup whose browser extension and website detect AI-generated text, has identified AI-written content in an award-winning short story, a popular novel, a billionaire's…
Pro-Kremlin Telegram channels are spreading AI-generated deepfake videos of two Ukrainian lawmakers who appear to call for peace talks, racking up 130,000 views in two weeks, according to NewsGuard. E…
Israel has created a fake think tank, the Hanover Institute for Public Policy, to influence AI chatbots, according to a report by Responsible Statecraft. The institute, produced by Piro, Inc. on behal…
Meta has struck a content partnership with Newsmax, a far-right news outlet, to use its current and archived reporting to support AI queries across Meta's apps and devices. Newsmax CEO Chris Ruddy sai…
A Demos think tank paper claiming Russia rigged websites to make AI chatbots spread disinformation is undermined by its own evidence, as the technical signal it cites as proof of deliberate targeting …
A March 2025 audit by NewsGuard found that major AI chatbots, including those from OpenAI, Google, Microsoft, and Meta, repeated false narratives from a Moscow-linked disinformation network in roughly…
Mistral AI's Le Chat chatbot repeated state-sponsored disinformation about the Iran war 50% of the time in English and 56.6% in French when prompted on false claims from Russian, Chinese, and Iranian …
Estonia's Institute of the Estonian Language tested 60 AI models against Russian disinformation, finding all four versions of Mistral AI's models scored below 40%, with the best ranking 47th. The benc…
All four Mistral AI models ranked in the bottom third of a 60-model benchmark testing resistance to Russian propaganda, with none exceeding 40% efficacy. The Institute of the Estonian Language conduct…
An audit by NewsGuard found that Mistral AI's chatbot, Le Chat, repeated state-sponsored disinformation from Russia, China, and Iran 50% of the time in English and 56.6% in French, marking a significa…