All across the world each day, state-controlled and state-adjacent media weave a steady stream of accurate, misleading, contested and false narratives into a constructed reality for their target audiences, whether domestically-focused on their own citizenry or outwardly-focused on an international audience. What might it look like to apply Gemini Pro and Gemini Deep Research with their combination of advanced reasoning and full agentic access to realtime, open web and curated authoritative sourcing using Google Search to attempt to "fact check" the major claims made on a given day on one of these channels? In other words, what if we provided Gemini with one of our Media Trends reports and asked it to search through authoritative media and other sources and thoroughly "fact check" each claim it identifies? Let's take a look at a day of IRINN coverage from yesterday and explore what this might look like in practice.
Here we use yesterday's Media Trends report for IRINN and asked Gemini Pro 3.1 and Gemini Deep Research to fact check it using the following prompt:
Attached is a deep thematic analysis of a Iranian television news channel yesterday. Perform a point-by-point detailed indepth fact check of all of the claims and themes outlined in the report. Make a list of all of the core claims and provide evidence that supports or refutes each. Cite your evidence. Offer an explanation for each falsehood as to why the channel might have said that. Open with a textual overview of the core themes and trends you see in what the channel said that was accurate vs false and then provide a claim-by-claim fact check.
See for yourself what you think of the results:
- Gemini 3.1 Pro: Fact-Checking Iranian News Broadcast Claims
- Gemini Deep Research: Information Warfare and Geopolitical Reality: Fact-Checking IRINN’s Broadcasts Amidst the 2026 Iran-US Conflict