Media Verification Laboratory

Investigate a public, political, economic, or financial message without treating familiarity or emotional force as evidence.

Exact claim

Transcribe the claim, quotation, statistic, chart, image, or implication exactly. Identify whether it is fact, inference, opinion, or prediction.

Original source

Locate the earliest available record, full speech, dataset, filing, report, image context, or unedited video.

Lateral reading

Investigate the publisher, author, funding, expertise, corrections, and independent coverage in separate tabs or sources.

Technical verification

Check date, units, denominator, axis, sample, geography, legal status, image provenance, and whether AI or editing may be involved.

Finding

Classify the claim as accurate, mostly accurate, misleading, unsupported, false, satirical, or unresolved and justify the classification proportionately.