WasThatTrue - YouTube Fact Check

Fact-check YouTube claims without leaving the video. Source-backed verdict in one click.

Stop wondering if what you just heard is true. WasThatTrue is the Chrome extension that lets you fact-check YouTube claims instantly, with source-backed verdicts in seconds. Click the Fact-check button on any long-form YouTube video with captions, pick a claim from the transcript, and read the verdict, sources, dates, and a plain-language explanation, all without leaving the video. An online fact checker for skeptical viewers, built for the way you actually watch YouTube. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ WHAT YOU GET ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ✅ Instant fact-checks on any YouTube claim ✅ Source-backed verdicts with publication, headline, and date ✅ Four honest verdict types: TRUE, FALSE, CONTESTED, UNVERIFIABLE ✅ Privacy-first design, no background tracking, no stored history ✅ Free tier: 3 fact-checks per day, no credit card ✅ Pro tier: unlimited fact-checks ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ HOW IT WORKS ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 1. Hear a claim on any long-form YouTube video with captions 2. Click the Fact-check button on the player 3. Pick the claim you want verified from a list of up to five 4. Read the verdict, with real sources, dates, and a short explanation No accounts required for free use. No popups. No redirects. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ FOUR VERDICT TYPES ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Most online fact-checkers force every claim into True or False. Real life isn't always like that, and WasThatTrue says so. ✅ TRUE, the claim holds up against the evidence. ❌ FALSE, the claim contradicts what reliable sources say. ⚠️ CONTESTED, the evidence is mixed and the answer depends on context. You see the trade-offs, not a forced binary. 🔍 UNVERIFIABLE, there's no primary source either way. You decide what to make of it. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ WHEN TO USE IT ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🎙️ Political commentary or interviews, verify the statistics before sharing 📰 News explainer videos, check the cited sources and dates 🎓 Educational content, confirm the claims before adding them to your knowledge 🎬 Documentary clips, separate scripted commentary from verified facts 📺 Podcasts on YouTube, spot off-the-cuff claims worth questioning 🤔 Anytime something sounds slightly off and you want a second opinion WasThatTrue is built for skeptical viewers, researchers, students, journalists, educators, and anyone tired of taking YouTube content at face value. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ PRIVACY ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ WasThatTrue only runs when you press the Fact-check button. It does not watch your YouTube activity in the background. Each fact-check leaves a short operational record (video ID, a one-way hash of the claim, timing) used only for usage counting. The verdict text and raw claim text are not stored. Why the extension asks for the permissions it does: • Website content, to read the YouTube transcript on the page you're watching, so we know what claims are available to check. • Authentication information, to manage Pro accounts and free user caps. • Active tab, only used to know whether you're on a YouTube watch page. We don't read your wider browsing history. Full privacy breakdown: wasthattrue.com/privacy ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ PRICING ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Free: 3 fact-checks per day. Full source-backed verdicts. All four verdict types. No credit card. Pro: unlimited fact-checks. Cancel anytime. See wasthattrue.com/pricing. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ LIMITATIONS ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ • Desktop Chrome only (Edge, Firefox, mobile not yet supported) • YouTube long-form videos only, Shorts not supported in this version • Videos must have captions; we use the transcript to extract claims • Currently English (US and UK) only ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ WHAT'S NEW IN 1.1.0 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ • Improved claim extraction accuracy • Faster verdict response times • Refined source ranking ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ SUPPORT ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Email: tom@sheendigital.co.uk Website: wasthattrue.com Built by Sheen Digital Ltd. Independent, not affiliated with YouTube, Google, or any media organisation. WasThatTrue. Fact-check YouTube claims. You decide what's true.