TruthLens — Who Reported It First?

Verify the story you're reading. One click traces a headline back to its original source and shows who is echoing whom.

Most "breaking news" is one source, repeated. TruthLens verifies a story from the page you're reading: one click traces it back to the outlet that reported it first, and shows whether other outlets corroborated it independently or are simply echoing that one source. WHAT IT DOES • Select any headline or claim and right-click it — or open the extension on an article page. • Get a verdict in about 20 seconds: is this independently reported, or is everyone echoing one source? • See the top sources with reputation scores, so you can judge the chain yourself. • Open the full analysis in the web app for the complete wire echo timeline — who published first, and who followed. THE VERDICTS • Single Origin — multiple outlets, all tracing back to one announcement or one report. • Independently Verified — outlets did their own work: own documents, own data, own filings. • Contested — sources genuinely disagree about what happened. • Sources Conflict, Single Source, Satire Detected. WHY IT MATTERS Volume is not verification. Fifteen outlets repeating one statement is one source amplified fifteen times, and nothing on a normal news page tells you which one you are looking at. FREE No account needed. 10 verifications a day signed out, 25 signed in. Works alongside the TruthLens web app and iPhone app — sign in on the web and the extension picks up your session automatically. PRIVACY No feed scanning, no passive tracking, no reading pages you haven't asked about. TruthLens only runs when you click.