Newsboy is now TruthFoundry

Newsboy is now TruthFoundry. The old address redirects; nothing you bookmarked breaks. The name changed because the product finally caught up to the idea, and the idea was never a news reader.

This one has been a long time in the making. For over a year the machine underneath has been scanning the world: 625,000+ articles and counting, from 4,100+ publishers, in 19 languages, pulled continuously and archived day by day into a signed, dated record. The question was always what a newsroom would look like if it stood on that record instead of on a feed. Now we know.

Scan the world

It starts wide. The pipeline ingests global coverage around the clock: wire services, national papers, regional outlets, trade press, in languages most aggregators never touch. Every article is fetched, extracted, and analyzed with a chain of Ed25519 provenance receipts: what was fetched, what text came out, which model read it and what it said. The receipts are independently verifiable; the keys are published.

None of that is the news yet. It is the raw ore.

Distil the facts

From the ore, the machine extracts statements: who did what, when, where, by how much. Statements that appear across outlets get grouped into claims, and every claim carries honest arithmetic: how many distinct publishers carried it, across how many articles, first seen and last seen. We say publishers, never sources, because syndication is not collapsed: twenty outlets running one wire story is twenty publishers and one origin, and pretending otherwise is how aggregators lie to you politely.

When publishers disagree on a number, the claim is flagged CONTESTED and the page says so. When only one outlet carries a statement, the record says that too: single witness, corroboration measured, never assumed.

Test and corroborate

Facts are versioned, never edited. A fact that gets superseded keeps its history: stated, superseded, corrected, every hop receipted. Stories composed from the record are hash-stamped, and the story page will re-run the hash in your browser so your own machine does the math. There is a public redactions ledger for challenges, with decisions that require reasons.

This is the part we mean when we say foundry. The record is not a pile of headlines. It is worked material: melted down, tested, stamped.

Then write the news

On top of the record sits a newsroom. A declared one: twenty-plus editorial personas with names, beats, voices, and portraits, plainly labeled as AI on every byline and on the roster page. They do not invent; they write. Every factual assertion in a persona's article traces to gathered record material, numbers and dates exact, no invented quotes. An editor-in-chief pass assigns sections and priorities. Stories nobody has written yet do not pretend: they run as Just the facts, the numbered statements the record carries, until someone writes them.

Under every article sits the proof: the fact lines, the corroborated claims with their counts, the source articles with links to the originals, and the hash check. The foundation you can open, never a banner you must read past.

The paper, not just the page

The front page is a real front page: a lead story, section rails, and edition art painted fresh each day from the day's actual stories, quality-checked by a vision model before it ships and labeled as AI art, because the stories are the record and the picture is the mood.

Flip on the easy reader and the whole site becomes a print edition: paper, serif, drop caps, column rules, and click-to-click reading with arrow keys, story to story, like turning pages. The full feed at /news/rss.xml carries every verified story of the week with full text, bylines, and art.

Kill fake news

The honest pitch: TruthFoundry articles are generated from the fact record and can be wrong. Every story says so, quietly, once. What makes this different is not a promise of perfection; it is that every story carries the material to check it. Corroboration is counted, not asserted. Provenance is signed, not implied. Disagreement is displayed, not smoothed over.

That is the whole thesis: do not trust us. Verify.

TruthFoundry is live at truthfoundry.ai. Reading is free, no signup. The record surfaces, the newsroom roster, and the fact checker are one click from the masthead.