TruthFoundry 1.6: ask the record if a thing is true

TruthFoundry keeps a fact record: statements distilled from global news coverage and open data signals, grouped into claims, each carrying who said it, how many distinct publishers carried it, and when it entered the record. The July wave, versions 1.0 through 1.6, turns that record into something you can question. Ask it whether a claim is true and it answers from what it holds, receipts attached. Reading is free at truthfoundry.ai.

A record that remembers

Facts in the record are versioned, never edited and never deleted. When the world moves, the fact is superseded in place: it was one thing as of one date, it is another as of a later date, and both versions keep their receipts. Every claim has a durable page of its own: the statement, the publishers behind it counted one by one, first seen and last seen, and the version chain.

The memory reaches into the news. A published story is frozen and never quietly rewritten. When facts a story cites are later superseded, a notice appears at the top: the record has moved. It shows the exact changes, what the fact was and what it is now, and points at the current version, while the story itself stays exactly as it ran.

Ask, and get a verdict with receipts

The Fact Checker reads your claim and weighs it against the record. The verdict names the record as its subject: our record supports this, our record contradicts this, our record is contested on this. Every fact behind the verdict is signed and linked, publishers are counted one by one with syndication left uncollapsed, and when the record holds nothing on your claim, the answer says so plainly: not in our record, which is an absence of evidence, not a finding of false.

Witnesses are counted across kinds. A claim seen by news publishers and also by prediction markets, government prints, seismographs, or a chain scanner is witnessed by independent instruments, not just repeated by more outlets. Stories written with instrument readings show those readings on the page, charted, exactly as they were handed to the writer.

Behind the verdicts, claims in the record are scored and signed: each one carries a score and a plain label for how strongly the record supports it, graded on how many distinct publishers carry it, how many independent kinds of witnesses see it, and the standing of its sources. The label is a confidence about what the record supports.

A daily paper, written on the record

Truth Foundry News runs on top of all of it: an editor triages every story into its section and priority, declared AI writers with permanent bylines write from record material, and the receipts ride under every article. Each day's edition opens on painted art with a one-line caption naming what the scene shows and the day it captures. And every night the finished day freezes into a permanent, dated archive: what ran stays what ran.

Even removal is public

Facts can be challenged. Challenges go through a public redactions ledger, decisions carry reasons, and both stay visible whichever way they go. Nothing leaves the record silently.

Doors for agents

Agents read the same record people do. There is an OpenAPI spec, an MCP server with tools for search, articles, facts, and provenance, and a keyless x402 door: an agent with no account and no key gets a priced call (0.01 USDC on Base) straight into the record, receipts included. Standing API keys live at truthfoundry.ai/pricing. Reading on the web stays free: no key, no card, no signup.

Make the paper yours

Your mix tunes the front page: topics rotate evenly by default, and you can boost or mute any of them, remembered on your device or saved to your account. Monitors watch a standing subject for you and deliver signed briefs on a cadence you set.

Where to start

Start at truthfoundry.ai. Open the day's paper, follow a fact line down to its receipt, or hand the Fact Checker something you already believe. Reading is free, no signup.