How it works

Check the story before it becomes the story.

FactCheck Radar helps you quickly test claims, images, screenshots, and viral posts against real sources. It is built for the messy internet: fast news, recycled screenshots, confident claims, and media that looks convincing before you know where it came from.

Coming soon: the Chrome extension is in private testing and will be published to the Chrome Web Store soon.

01

Check a claim where you found it

Select text on a page, open the extension, and ask for a fact-check. The report focuses on the exact claim and the surrounding context, instead of guessing from a headline alone.

02

Inspect images and screenshots

Use it when a photo or screenshot feels too perfect. FactCheck Radar looks for where the visual has appeared before and whether the current post is using it honestly.

03

Get a source-backed answer

You get a plain-language verdict, key reasons, confidence level, and source links. If the first run still feels too shallow, you can trigger Fact-check deeper for a stronger second pass.

When it helps

FactCheck Radar is most useful when something is spreading quickly and the usual search results are noisy, incomplete, or full of people repeating each other.

  • Breaking news: Check whether a dramatic update is confirmed, disputed, old, or missing important context.
  • Social media posts: Test viral claims from X, Facebook, Reddit, TikTok captions, screenshots, and comment threads before sharing them.
  • Images and screenshots: Spot recycled photos, old pictures used as new evidence, or screenshots detached from their original context.
  • Health, politics, and money claims: Slow down confident advice that could change what someone believes, buys, votes for, or forwards to family.
  • Articles and blogs: Check whether the strongest claim in an article is supported by the sources it points to, or whether the article is overstating the evidence.
  • Cross-language claims: Our AI agent can search and read websites in any language, then return the report in clear plain English.

What you get back

A good fact-check should not make you do more work. It should make the situation clearer in a few minutes.

Verdict The quick answer: whether the claim looks true, false, misleading, unsupported, or mixed.
Reasoning The plain-English explanation of how the report reached that answer, including what evidence changed the picture.
Sources The articles, official pages, reports, or other references used during the check, so you can inspect the trail yourself.
Key checks The most important smaller questions answered along the way, so the result is easy to scan and not just one big paragraph.
Confidence A simple signal for how strong the available evidence is and how much caution the result needs.

Need more depth? Use Fact-check deeper inside the report page. It reruns the same claim with a bigger web search and source-reading budget for a tougher second check.

Why people use it

The internet rewards speed. FactCheck Radar gives you a pause button. It helps you avoid spreading bad information, settle arguments with evidence, and keep a personal standard for what deserves your trust.

If a result is useful for other people, it can also be published to the public archive. That turns one person's check into a reusable page that others can read, share, and search later.

Browse public archive Chrome extension coming soon