V Veritas

Chrome extension

Fact-check anything
you read online.

Select a sentence, or a whole article, and Veritas checks each statistic, date and claim against sources. Every claim is highlighted right on the page, with a sourced correction when it's wrong or out of date.

Coming soon for ChromeGet early access Try it in your browser first

Free. No account needed.

Illustrative example.

Needs attention Supported Couldn't verify

Right where you read

Right-click a selection, press AltShiftV, or open the side panel and check the whole article. No copying and pasting between tabs.

Highlighted on the page

Checked claims are marked in place: red for needs attention, green for supported, grey for couldn't verify. Click “Show on page” to jump to any claim.

Sources, not vibes

Every verdict comes with its evidence and, when a figure is off, a suggested correction you can see and check yourself.

How it works

From “is that true?” to an answer in seconds.

  1. Select or right-click. Highlight a claim, or right-click anywhere on a page and choose “Fact-check this page”. Nothing is read until you ask.
  2. Veritas finds the claims. It pulls out the statistics, dates, records and role-holders worth checking and skips opinions, up to 5 per check.
  3. Each one is checked against sources. Veritas searches for evidence, weighs how reliable each source is, and returns a verdict with a suggested correction where one exists.
  4. Review it on the page. Claims are highlighted in the article and listed in the side panel, problems first.

Privacy

It only looks at a page when you ask.

The extension asks for the smallest set of permissions it can work with. It has no access to your browsing history and runs no code in the background on the sites you visit.

Read the full privacy policy.

Questions

What does the extension check?

Checkable claims: statistics, dates, records, who holds which role, and comparisons. Opinions and analysis are skipped because they aren't facts. Each claim gets a verdict (supported, outdated, contradicted, misleading or unverifiable), a suggested correction when one exists, and links to the sources used.

Is it free?

Yes. You can run a few checks a day without an account. Each check covers up to 3,000 characters and 5 claims. A free Veritas account adds a one-time audit of 25 pages on your own site.

What does it send, and when?

Only the text you choose to check, and only when you ask: from the right-click menu, the keyboard shortcut or the side panel. It doesn't read pages in the background, has no access to your browsing history and doesn't track you. Details are in the privacy policy.

Which browsers does it work in?

Chrome 116 or newer. It uses Chrome's side panel, so other Chromium browsers may work but aren't officially supported yet.

Is this the same as the Veritas product for publishers?

It uses the same fact-checking engine. The extension is for checking what you read. The Veritas platform monitors every page on your own site on a schedule and gives editors a sourced fix when a fact goes stale. See how it works.

Facts go stale. Check them.

Add Veritas to Chrome and check your next article in a couple of clicks. Publishing your own? Veritas can monitor every page on your site, too.

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