Fact-check social media posts before they spread.
Use FactSentinel as a first-pass review layer for viral claims, screenshots, short captions, quote cards, and linked articles. Keep source trails, confidence, model agreement, and caveats visible before you share, publish, teach, or cite a post.
Fast posts still need claim-level checks.
A post can move faster than the source trail behind it. The practical workflow is to isolate the exact claim, find the strongest available source, and keep uncertainty visible before a post becomes a citation, classroom example, newsroom lead, or public reply.
Source and screenshot trail
Check whether a screenshot points to an actual article, report, database, public document, or original post rather than another repost.
Dates, places, and numbers
Prioritize time-sensitive details, location claims, statistics, quotes, named people, policy context, medical context, and legal context.
AI-written or recycled text
Review generic captions, summary threads, and claim lists for invented sourcing, missing caveats, or confident wording that outruns the evidence.
A quick review loop for feeds, group chats, and article queues.
- Paste the exact social claim, caption, quote, or short thread into the web checker.
- Review verdict, confidence, reasoning, model agreement, and source evidence side by side.
- Separate supported claims from claims that need stronger sourcing, clearer context, or manual follow-up.
- Use the Chrome extension when the source material is on the page you are already reading.
Match the check to the kind of post.
Short factual claims
Use the claim checker for single-sentence assertions, quoted stats, policy claims, health statements, and claims lifted from screenshots.
News links and summaries
Use the news workflow when the post points to an article, summarizes a developing story, or turns a headline into a broader claim.
Broader misinformation checks
Use the misinformation checker when a post mixes a caption, source screenshot, article summary, and AI-generated context into one claim trail.
AI-generated captions
Use the AI content workflow when a post, summary, reply, or research note appears machine-written or source-heavy.
Browser-based review
Use the Chrome guide when you need to verify a post, source page, or article without breaking reading flow.
Fact-checking social media posts with FactSentinel.
Can FactSentinel tell me whether every social media post is true?
No. FactSentinel is a first-pass review workflow. It helps expose source evidence, reasoning, confidence, model agreement, and caveats so a human can decide what still needs manual verification.
What social posts should I check first?
Prioritize viral or consequential posts with numbers, dates, names, quotes, locations, legal or medical context, policy claims, source screenshots, or claims that people may repeat outside the platform.
Should I check screenshots differently from links?
Yes. For screenshots, first look for the original source, date, and surrounding context. For links, check whether the article supports the caption or headline claim being shared.
Give social claims a source check before they travel.
Paste a claim into the web checker, or install the extension to keep the review layer close while reading posts, sources, and articles.