Fact Check the News Before You Share It
News moves fast. Corrections move slowly. Before a story shapes what you believe — or what you share — check the facts for yourself.
Why News Fact Checking Has Never Been More Important
The traditional model of news fact-checking assumed that errors would be corrected before publication. The speed of online news has reversed that assumption. Stories are published first, corrected later — or never. A 2024 Reuters Institute Digital News Report found that trust in news media has declined in nearly every country studied. More people encounter news through social media platforms than through news websites directly, which means the ability to fact-check independently has become a core media literacy skill. Truthify gives you a practical way to exercise it.
How to Fact Check a News Article
- 1Copy the article text
Select the full text of the news article you want to check and copy it. If it's a video news segment, copy the URL instead.
- 2Open Truthify
Go to Truthify.wiki. If you have article text, click "Paste Text". If you have a video URL, use the YouTube or Vimeo tab.
- 3Paste and analyse
Paste the content and click Analyse. Truthify identifies every factual claim in the piece.
- 4Review the verdicts
Each claim gets a verdict card: Supported, Refuted, Misleading, Opinion, or Unverifiable — with the evidence behind each decision.
- 5Check the sources
Click any source link to read the primary evidence yourself. The Trust Score at the top gives you a quick signal on the overall accuracy.
Types of News Claims Truthify Checks
News articles contain several distinct claim types that require different verification approaches. Statistics — unemployment rates, casualty figures, polling numbers — are checked against government databases and official reporting. Historical claims — references to precedents, timelines, and past events — are verified against encyclopaedic and archival sources. Scientific claims — public health data, climate figures, technology assertions — are checked against academic databases. Quotes and attributions — statements attributed to officials, experts, or organisations — are searched against existing fact-check databases and news archives. Truthify handles all of these automatically and chooses the appropriate evidence sources for each claim type.
News Fact Checking vs Professional Fact-Checkers
Organisations like Reuters Fact Check, AP, and PolitiFact provide authoritative, editorially accountable fact-checks — but they cover only a small fraction of the news published daily. Truthify is faster and broader: it can analyse any article immediately, not just those that professional fact-checkers have prioritised. The trade-off is depth — a professional fact-check may take days of investigation and involve contacting sources directly. Truthify gives you an immediate first-pass signal, and its results include links to existing professional fact-checks when they exist in the database.
Verifying News Videos and Broadcasts
Much news consumption now happens through YouTube — news channel reports, political commentary, and broadcast clips. Paste any YouTube URL of a news segment into Truthify and get the same claim-by-claim analysis as for text articles. This is particularly useful for commentary and opinion video content, where the line between stated fact and editorial opinion can be deliberately blurred.
Frequently Asked Questions
How can I tell if a news story is accurate?
Paste the article text into Truthify (or the video URL if it's a news segment). Truthify identifies every factual claim and checks each one against authoritative sources including professional fact-check databases, government data, and academic research. The Trust Score gives you a quick overall signal, and individual claim cards show the specific evidence.
Does Truthify check news from specific outlets?
Truthify analyses the content of any article you paste — it doesn't have a database of outlets rated by trustworthiness. This is intentional: even generally reliable outlets sometimes publish errors, and evaluating each article's specific claims is more useful than relying on outlet-level ratings.
Can Truthify catch deliberately misleading news?
Truthify identifies claims that are factually inaccurate or misleading relative to the available evidence. It cannot determine intent — whether the inaccuracy was deliberate. It will flag the same way whether a claim is wrong due to sloppy reporting or intentional deception.
Is Truthify politically neutral?
Truthify's verdicts are based on evidence, not editorial position. The same pipeline analyses conservative and progressive news sources identically. Claims are evaluated against what published evidence shows, not against the political stance of the outlet.
What happens if a news story is about a very recent event?
For breaking news, the evidence may not yet be indexed in Truthify's sources. Recent events may produce 'Unverifiable' verdicts because the data doesn't exist yet rather than because the claim is false. Truthify is more effective for news stories that are at least 24–48 hours old, when official reporting and authoritative sources have had time to publish.
Ready to check the facts?
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