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It checked out
as true.It still misled you.

A sentence can pass every fact-check and still lead you to believe something false. TruthForge reads the news you're reading, does the research, and hammers out the details.

Runs in your browser. No backend. Anthropic Claude or Google Gemini.

A fact-checker asks is this true?
TruthForge asks what is it telling you to believe?

Whether a sentence is literally accurate and whether it's engineered to mislead are two different reads. TruthForge keeps them apart — a true statement can still be built to deceive, and it will say so.

A fact-checker sees

“…passed with overwhelming bipartisan backing…”

Technically true
!TruthForge sees

“…passed with overwhelming bipartisan backing…”

Plants: near-unanimous support. Actually: a 2-vote margin.

It docks beside the article and forges in the open.

Watch it work, then read the critique — findings streamed as white paper cards on the dark stage, each one grounded in a real source.

TruthForge forging
6s elapsed · 4 searches
Reading the article
Searching the web
Weighing the sources
Writing the critique
Pulling it together
TruthForge cached · 2h
Article argues
The legislation was a clear victory for both sides.
1
Implies near-unanimity it never claims

“…with overwhelming bipartisan backing…”

undermines implied

Actually: it cleared by a 2-vote margin, with most of the opposition party against it.

high confidence
2
States the vote margin incorrectly

“…passed with 60 Senate votes…”

factual error stated wrong

Actually: the recorded tally was 51–49, not 60.

medium confidence

Your key, your call. No backend.

TruthForge runs entirely in your browser and calls your chosen model directly — Claude or Gemini — with the key you paste once. Nothing routes through a TruthForge server.

1
Open any news article

Click the toolbar icon. The panel docks next to the page and reads the full article text automatically.

2
It forges and searches

Your model reads the piece, runs live web searches to ground every correction, and writes a critique across eight lenses.

3
See what it plants

Each finding names the exact phrase, the belief it plants, the grounded correction, and the lean balance of its sources.

Eight lenses. A closed, engineered checklist.

Not an open taxonomy — a deliberately fixed set of media-criticism categories. A lens with nothing to critique is dropped entirely; the checklist never shows empty rows.

01
Framing & Tone

Loaded word choice and slant that tilt the read before you reach a single fact.

02
Sourcing Balance

Who gets quoted, who's left unheard, and whose account is treated as the default.

03
Missing Baseline & Context

The comparison or history that would change how a number or claim actually lands.

04
Factual & Verification Gaps

Claims stated as settled that the reporting never actually verified.

05
Causal & Motive Insinuation

Implying a cause or an intent the evidence on the page doesn't support.

06
Omission & Selection

What's true, relevant, and quietly left out of frame.

07
Rhetorical Technique & Fallacy

Persuasion moves that win by construction, not by argument.

08
Fabrication & Manipulation

Invented detail or doctored material presented as real.

What TruthForge is not.

These aren't marketing claims — they're constraints the engine is built around.

Not a fact-check oracle

It doesn't issue final verdicts on contested claims. It reasons transparently — it doesn't rule from on high. A finding that holds up is stated as confidently as one that manipulates.

Truth and candor stay separate

Whether something is literally accurate and whether it's built to mislead are independent reads — never collapsed into one true/false badge.

Confidence is earned, never faked

Each finding carries its own calibrated confidence — never an article-level score, percentage, or reliability badge. No faked certainty, no hallucinated authority.

The lens discloses itself

A header control always explains what the eight-category framework is and where it structurally falls short — the same discipline it applies to the article.

Read clearly. Start now.

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