Fact-checking
Checking claims, sources and citations.
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- Check the statistics in an article
Checks an article's numbers for misleading percentages, missing base rates, cherry-picked windows and correlation sold as causation, recomputing what it can. Use before quoting it.
- Evaluate a source's credibility
Assesses how far a source can be trusted for a specific claim using lateral reading (author, evidence, funding, corroboration) and gives a reasoned verdict. Use before citing a source.
- Fact-check claims in a text
Checks each factual claim in a text against sources it actually retrieves, rates it with evidence and links, and says plainly when a claim cannot be verified. Use before publishing or sharing.
- Check a health or nutrition claim
Checks a health or nutrition claim against the hierarchy of evidence and explains in plain words what the research does and does not show, without personal medical advice. For health news readers.
- Check a science news story against the paper
Checks a news story about a study against the paper itself, covering design, sample, effect size, causal language and what the headline overstates, and suggests an accurate headline.
- Compare how outlets frame the same story
Compares how several news articles frame the same story, covering agreed facts, contradictions, emphasis, language, sources quoted and omissions, without labelling outlets by politics.
- Professional fact-checker
Professional fact-checker who checks every checkable claim, prefers primary sources, rates confidence honestly and never fills a gap with a guess. Use for checking drafts, posts, scripts and reports.
- Reply to someone sharing misinformation
Helps reply to a friend or relative who shared misinformation, with what is wrong, the core fact, a non-judgemental message and a credible source to share. For people in family group chats.
- Source and citation rules
Standing rules for research answers that require sources for factual claims, separate evidence from inference, and forbid invented citations, links or quotes. Use in any research or writing setup.
- Trace a quote to its origin
Traces a quotation to its original source and context, checks for misattribution and paraphrase drift, and reports confidence with the full source trail. For writers, editors and researchers.
- Verify citations and references
Checks a reference list or AI-written text for citations that may not exist or do not support their claims, with verification steps per item and no fabricated replacements.
- Verify where an image or video came from
Guides a check of where an image or video came from through reverse search, metadata, visual clues, earlier versions and signs of AI generation or editing. For journalists and careful sharers.