Features
How Cross Check It works
Cross Check It does more than flagging fake news. On this page we take a closer look at how claim checking, framing analysis, source credibility, and multi-source synthesis work together to show you the full picture.
How a single check becomes a full picture
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Highlight or paste a claim
Select text on your phone or paste a sentence you want to verify.
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Or scan a full article in Chrome
Our extension reads the whole page and pulls out every checkable claim.
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We cross-check trusted sources
Fact-checks, peer-reviewed research, and live reporting are compared side by side.
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Get a verdict with credibility labels
See the verdict, the sources behind it, and how credible each one is.
Claim checking
Check any claim, wherever you’re reading it.
On your phone, highlight any sentence in an app, a message, or a webpage and Cross Check It gives you an instant verdict without leaving what you’re reading.
In Chrome, scan a full article instead. We pull out every checkable claim on the page and score each one individually, so you don’t have to hunt for what’s true.
Framing analysis
Unlocks after checking 3 claims in one article
See how the story is being told, not just what it says.
Once you’ve checked three claims in the same article, Cross Check It automatically runs a framing analysis on the piece as a whole. Framing is how a true story can still mislead: which facts are included, which are left out, whose voice gets quoted, and which words are chosen to shape your reaction.
You get a framing score, the specific loaded phrases or missing context we flagged, and a plain-language summary of the angle the piece is taking, so you can read it with the full picture instead of just the headline.
Source credibility
Not all sources deserve equal trust. We don’t treat them that way.
Every source we cite is run through a credibility layer first. Low-quality and unreliable sites are permanently blocked before we even start looking. Trusted wire services and peer-reviewed research are weighted more heavily, and every result tells you the source, how credible it is, and its political leaning, so nothing is hidden behind a single verdict.
Trusted sources, updated daily
Cross check it synthesises evidence across three sources: professional fact-checks (matched from a daily-updated IFCN corpus), peer-reviewed research, and live web reporting.
Then, it runs every source through a credibility layer that blocks low-quality outlets, weights trusted wire services more heavily, and labels each source for political lean and factual reliability.
Just transparent, traceable answers.
Wire services carry more weight
Outlets like Reuters and AP are weighted higher in every answer,
since they're the original source most other reporting draws from.
Low-quality sites never make it in
Unreliable domains are blocked before a query even runs,
so they can't influence the answer at all.
Weighting updates as reliability shifts
A source's influence isn't fixed forever; it adjusts as its track record changes.
Multi-source synthesis
One verdict, built from three independent checks.
Cross Check It never relies on a single source. Every claim is checked against a daily-updated corpus of professional fact-checks, matched to peer-reviewed research, and cross-referenced with live web reporting. The three are synthesised into one clear verdict, so a single biased or outdated source can never decide the answer on its own.
Professional fact-checks
Peer-reviewed research
Live web reporting
Available everywhere