About TruthScore

When something happens in the world, the reporting on it does not arrive as a settled story. It arrives as fragments: assertions, denials, leaks, corrections, physical traces, and a very large amount of repetition. Most of the machinery we have for reading news is built to collapse that mess into a single account as quickly as possible — a headline, a verdict, a rating.

This site does the opposite. It keeps the competing accounts open, side by side, and shows what actually bears on each one. Every uncertainty is held as an open Question with all of its candidate answers rendered together — and with the possibility that none of them is right rendered as a branch of its own. What you see on a Question page is not a conclusion. It is the state of the argument.

What it is

• A model, not a publication. Claims are extracted from documents, resolved against each other, and connected by typed relationships. Belief is then computed from those connections — see Method.
• An explorable case file. Everything links to everything: from a claim to its sources, from a source to what it claims, from an entity to every claim it appears in, from a Question to the possible worlds its branches produce. There are no dead ends by design.
• Honest about what it does not know. The unknown residual is a first-class part of every Question, and it is often the largest bar on the page. That is not a failure state; early in a story it is the correct answer.

What it is not

• Not a fact-checker issuing verdicts. Nothing here is rated true or false by an editor. A number on this site is a projection over evidence under a named lens — a view, not a ruling.
• Not a consensus meter. How many outlets repeat a claim is shown as structure — who said it, how independently, at what remove — and it never moves a belief bar. Repetition is not evidence.
• Not a place where things disappear. A hypothesis that loses goes dormant, greyed out at the belief floor. It is never deleted, because the reason it lost is part of the record.

Learning your way around

The pages here are dense with mechanism — a hatched "unknown" bar, a ◆ on one piece of evidence and not another, a lens switcher, a version of events marked impossible and rendered anyway. Take the tour and every one of them is explained in order: what you are looking at, why it works that way, and what it connects to, with a live example beside each. Method is the shorter road — it covers the arithmetic alone.

Where it stands

This is early work on a real corpus, not a finished product. Pages will be thin in places; when they are, they say so in mechanical terms ("no independent evidence yet — 4 assertions await corroboration") rather than apologising or hiding the section. If something here looks wrong, report it.