Newsguard - Nearly half of Americans (49 percent) reported they believed at least one of the three false claims to be true, while only seven percent of respondents could correctly identify all three claims as false. Seventy-four percent were unsure about the truth or falsehood of at least one claim.
For example, asked about the claim that Sen. Lindsey Graham and Sen. Richard Blumenthal spent $800,000 in taxpayer money on hotels during a trip to Ukraine, 27 percent of those surveyed said the claim was true and 57 percent were “not sure.” Only 17 percent correctly identified the claim as false.
Asked about the claim that pallets of bricks were planted in Los Angeles during the June 2025 anti-deportation protests as part of a plan to arm protesters, 24 percent said the claim was true and 43 percent said they were “not sure.” Thirty-three percent correctly classified the claim as false.
Asked about the claim that white South Africans are being systematically killed as part of a “white genocide,” 26 percent said the claim was true, 33 percent were “not sure,” and 40 percent correctly identified the claim as false.
Read NewsGuard’s first Reality Gap Index report and the press release announcing the new initiative here.
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