Fact-check political claims on Chrome before trusting or resharing them.
Start with one campaign statement, policy claim, debate quote, public-figure claim, quoted article snippet, or civic social post, then run a FactSentinel first-step evidence check before you trust, cite, quote, or amplify it.
Start with the civic claim that needs evidence.
Political and public claims often depend on dates, jurisdiction, quote context, source quality, and whether a linked article supports the exact wording. A practical Chrome workflow starts with one claim from an article, social post, campaign page, video transcript, debate clip, or chat thread.
1. Preserve dated context
Keep the exact claim, speaker, date, office, jurisdiction, article snippet, transcript line, campaign page, source link, and surrounding context.
2. Run FactSentinel
Review dated evidence, source links, citation quality, caveats, reasoning, confidence, and model agreement while the claim remains open in Chrome.
3. Share with care
Open original-source trails and decide whether to trust, add context, ask for primary evidence, keep reading, or avoid amplifying the claim.
Political claims worth checking first.
Start where a source trail can change the next action. Dated evidence and original sources matter because policy and campaign claims can change quickly.
Campaign statements
- Claims about spending, voting records, public statements, or prior policy positions.
- Debate quotes and clips where context may be missing.
- Campaign-page claims with charts, rankings, or unnamed sources.
Policy claims
- Claims about law, regulation, court action, agencies, or official guidance.
- Numbers that depend on dates, geography, or definitions.
- Article snippets where the source supports a narrower point.
Public-figure claims
- Quotes attributed to officials, candidates, advocates, or organizations.
- Social posts repeating a claim without the original source.
- Chat-thread claims that need dated evidence before forwarding.
What the check should show before you trust it.
The goal is not to score a person or party. The goal is to slow the trust decision long enough to inspect source trails, dated evidence, quote context, caveats, and citation quality.
Dated evidence
- Source links tied to the exact civic claim.
- Dates, jurisdiction, and context preserved.
- Caveats when the source is stale, missing, or mismatched.
Original-source trail
- Official documents, transcripts, voting records, or primary reporting when available.
- Warnings when the claim relies on secondary summaries.
- Source quality that can be inspected before sharing.
share-with-care action
- Trust with source context.
- Ask for the original evidence.
- Do not reshare when the trail is weak or unclear.
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Install, then check one civic claim.
Open the download page, install the Chrome extension, and run a first-step check on one campaign statement, policy claim, debate quote, public-figure claim, quoted article snippet, or civic social post before trusting or resharing it.