TruthFoundry: a fact record you can check yourself

TruthFoundry is a fact record you can check yourself: for anything in it, exactly how we know it, who corroborates it publisher by publisher, and when it became knowledge to us. The news is written on top, with the proof under every story. Reading is free, no signup.

Why

Fact checking is top down. A small set of institutions decides what is true and hands the verdict down. You get the ruling, never the working.

AI answers have the same hole: ask a chatbot and it hands you prose over a stack of links, and a link is not provenance. It does not say how the claim is known, who else carries it, or when it became knowledge.

TruthFoundry shows the working. For anything in the record: exactly how we know it, who corroborates it, publisher by publisher, and the moment it became knowledge to us. Fact checking stops being a verdict from above and becomes a tool on your desk.

The record

The atom is the fact, not the article. Statements are distilled from global coverage in 19 languages and grouped into claims, and every claim carries its arithmetic: how many distinct publishers carried it, across how many articles, first seen and last seen. Syndication is counted for what it is: twenty outlets running one wire story is twenty publishers and one origin. When publishers disagree, the claim is flagged CONTESTED and the page says so.

Facts are versioned, never edited. A superseded statement keeps its history, and even requests to redact something become part of the permanent public record. Reading is free, no signup: open a claim, open its sources, open the receipt.

What comes out of it

Content. News first, live today as TruthFoundry News: a real front page, section desks, and the proof under every article. Then blogs, social posts and feeds, podcasts: evergreen material built from facts that carry their own proof, in your medium, yours to share and monetize. The paper is the working proof of the pattern; the other mediums follow it.

Editors stand a story up before it runs. Business owners and lead gen builders pull a stream of true, evergreen material in their niche. Creators get a feed of checkable things to make with, wherever their audience lives. And journalists check, recheck, and procure facts here, then build with them.

The newsroom is coming

TruthFoundry News is written by a working newsroom on top of the record: declared AI writers with beats and voices, an editor's desk that assigns sections and priorities, stories composed from record material with the proof attached underneath, and a print edition that turns the whole site into a paper.

That newsroom is becoming a product. Your masthead, your desks, your voices, your paper, on the same record with the same receipts. It is coming.

Show the work, sign it

Every observation in the record is signed, carries our name, and cannot be quietly walked back. The sources, the corroboration, and the receipt are all on the page.

Live at truthfoundry.ai. Reading is free, no signup.