Verification Tools
Tools for verifying images, video, claims, and documents.
22 tools evaluated. Ratings backed by published methodology.
Archive.today
Snapshot any web page and preserve it permanently, independent of the original site.
Bellingcat Online Investigation Toolkit
Comprehensive dashboard of hundreds of OSINT tools organized by category. Maintained by Bellingcat investigators.
Botometer
Bot detection scores for Twitter/X accounts. Built by Indiana University researchers, frozen in archival mode after X cut off free API access in 2023.
Content Credentials (C2PA)
Open standard for cryptographic content provenance. A nutrition label for media — when it survives the trip.
Copyscape
Plagiarism detection service that checks text against the open web. Pay-per-search model, batch processing, API access, and automated monitoring for content theft.
ExifTool
Read, write, and strip metadata from photos and files. All processing happens locally — no data leaves your machine.
Factiverse
AI-powered fact-checking and claim verification for newsrooms. Checks claims against source databases in real time, built specifically for editorial workflows.
FotoForensics
Error-level analysis for detecting image manipulation. Upload a photo, see where it was edited.
GeoConfirmed
Community-verified geolocations of conflict events — crowdsourced OSINT with rigorous multi-analyst verification, mapping incidents from Ukraine to Sudan to Myanmar.
GeoSpy
AI geolocation from photos. Upload an image, get predicted coordinates — no metadata required. Now restricted to law enforcement and enterprise clients.
Google Fact Check Explorer
Search engine for fact-checks from around the world — find what's been debunked before you publish.
GPTZero
AI text detector built by a Princeton student in January 2023. Useful as a screen, dangerous as a verdict.
Hunchly
Web investigation capture tool. Records, hashes, and archives every page you visit during an investigation.
InVID/WeVerify
Browser extension for verifying videos and images — keyframe extraction, reverse search, deepfake detection, and metadata analysis.
Journallist / trust.txt
Machine-readable transparency file for news publishers — declares organizational affiliations, ownership, social accounts, and AI training permissions in a standard text format.
Media Bias/Fact Check
Independently operated database of news source bias ratings and factual reporting scores. Covers 7,000+ sources with transparent methodology.
NewsGuard
Browser extension that rates news sites on nine journalistic criteria. Used by libraries, advertisers, and AI companies — and now sued by both sides of the trust war.
OSINT Framework
Clickable directory of 500+ OSINT tools organized by investigation type — the table of contents for online research.
Sherlock
Find social media accounts by username across 400+ platforms. Command-line OSINT.
SunCalc
Sun position and shadow calculator for chronolocation and photo verification. The standard tool in OSINT shadow analysis.
TinEye
Reverse image search built for finding the oldest instance of an image and tracking how it was modified.
Wayback Machine
Access archived versions of web pages going back to 1996. Over 1 trillion pages captured.
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