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Breaking News Confidence Card
Assign a confidence level without pretending incomplete reporting is settled.
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Verification tools
Turn a vague doubt into a documented check you can repeat.
Choose the job you need to do
Choose a tool by the work you need to finish, not by the format of the rumor. Claims with many moving parts belong in the Claim Evidence Checker or Source Chain Mapper. Time-sensitive stories benefit from the Chronology Builder and Breaking News Confidence Card. Quantitative stories belong in the poll, percent-change and statistics tools. Visual evidence belongs in the Image Evidence Log, while legal or government-document questions fit the Court Filing Reader and Public Record Request Planner.
Every utility exposes its logic in the page itself. That matters because a score is only useful when you can see why it changed. The tools do not ask for an email address, do not require an account and do not treat a numerical result as automatic proof. They are designed to produce a compact evidence trail you can save, compare and revisit when a story changes.
A useful sequence is to start broad, then move to the specialized tool. First define the exact claim. Second trace the earliest source. Third identify the evidence type—document, video, dataset, testimony, court filing, poll or official record. Finally use the matching worksheet or calculator to test the weak point. The goal is not to collect more tabs; it is to reduce an ambiguous story to a decision you can explain.
Fast choiceUse the Claim Evidence Checker for general triage, Source Chain Mapper for citation chains, Chronology Builder for changing stories, and the specialized readers/calculators when one evidence type controls the answer.
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Breaking News Chronology Builder
Sort dated claims, official statements and evidence arrivals into a timeline so updates are not confused with contradictions.
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Claim Evidence Checker
Score whether a claim has a traceable original source, primary evidence and independent corroboration.
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Court Filing Context Reader
Select the legal document and case stage to get a plain-language reminder of what the filing can and cannot establish.
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Document Authenticity Checklist
Run a ten-point provenance check on a PDF, memo, screenshot or leaked file before relying on it.
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Election Claim Audit Trail
Map a claim to jurisdiction, procedure, records, audit findings and later investigations.
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Evidence Weighting Matrix
Score the structure of evidence behind a claim using directness, independence, primary records, corroboration and contradiction checks.
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Headline Framing Grid
Compare verbs, labels, omitted facts and source evidence across headlines.
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Image Evidence Log
Record post context, earlier uses, location clues and provenance checks.
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Balanced News Diet Planner
Choose source roles that reduce duplication and improve viewpoint and evidence diversity.
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Percent Change Calculator
Separate percentage-point movement from relative percent change.
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Poll Margin Calculator
Estimate simple random-sample uncertainty for a reported proportion.
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Public Record Request Planner
Turn a broad research question into a narrow records description with a custodian, record series and date range; download the planning note without submitting personal information.
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Source Chain Mapper
Map how a claim moved from an original source through reposts, summaries or screenshots so you can see whether the evidence chain actually reaches a primary source.
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Source Comparison Worksheet
Download a lightweight CSV for comparing who reported what, based on which evidence.
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Source Trace Ladder
Trace an article through citations to the earliest attributable evidence.
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Statistics Sanity Check
Check denominator, baseline, time window, units and absolute versus relative change.
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Verification Stop Rule
Decide when additional searching is no longer changing the evidence picture.