Information Security for the Mind: 30+ Tools to Verify Anything

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General Fact-Checking

  • Snopes: The internet’s oldest and most famous debunking site for urban legends and viral rumors.
  • PolitiFact: Focuses on the accuracy of claims made by elected officials and candidates.
  • FactCheck.org: A non-partisan “consumer advocate” for voters that monitors U.S. political claims.
  • Full Fact: The UK’s leading independent fact-checking charity.
  • Lead Stories: Specialized in debunking trending stories using “Trendolizer” technology.
  • Google Fact Check Explorer: A search engine designed specifically to find fact-checks across the web.

Media Bias & Reliability

  • NewsGuard: Gives websites a “nutrition label” based on their history of accuracy and transparency.
  • Ad Fontes Media: Famous for the “Media Bias Chart,” it ranks news based on bias and reliability.
  • Ground News: A news aggregator that shows you how a single story is being reported across the political spectrum.
  • AllSides: Provides “balanced” news by showing headlines from the Left, Center, and Right side-by-side.

Image & Video Verification (Deepfakes)

  • TrueMedia.org: A powerful AI tool designed to detect deepfakes and AI-generated political content.
  • InVID & WeVerify: A browser extension used by journalists to debunk viral videos and find their original sources.
  • TinEye: The industry standard for reverse-image searching to see where a photo first appeared.
  • Google Lens: Quickly identifies objects, landmarks, and original sources of images from your phone or browser.

AI Text & Bot Detectors

  • GPTZero: One of the most accurate tools for identifying if a news article was written by AI.
  • Botometer: Analyzes Twitter/X accounts to see if they are controlled by humans or bots.
  • CopyLeaks: A robust AI detector that can spot content generated by ChatGPT, Gemini, and Claude.