Notes on how verifAI works under the hood, what we learn from running thousands of fact-checks, and practical guidance on media literacy for short-form video.
A walkthrough of the actual pipeline that turns a pasted reel URL into a verdict — from yt-dlp download to Whisper transcription, visual-text extraction with Llama-4 Scout, claim splitting, and the cross-check against Google Fact Check Tools and live web sources.
Read article →Google's Fact Check Tools API is excellent — and it covers only a small fraction of the claims that actually show up in Instagram reels and TikToks. Here's the data we see from the verifAI pipeline and why we treat it as a starting point, not the answer.
Read article →Not every sentence in a reel is something you can fact-check. A practical taxonomy of verifiable vs. unverifiable statements — useful both for everyday readers and for anyone building a fact-checking pipeline.
Read article →Posting a fact-check in the comments of a viral reel feels productive. Most of the time it does nothing. A few small choices about timing, tone, and what you link to make a measurable difference.
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