What is TheFactual?
TheFactual is an AI-powered fact checking and media analysis platform designed to promote truth in media and civil disagreement. The main features of TheFactual include:
- Fact Check Search - Users can search any claim or fact to see if it is verified and evidence-based. TheFactual analyzes multiple credible sources and uses AI to provide a fact check rating indicating if the claim is true, misleading, unproven etc.
- Media Bias Ratings - TheFactual provides bias and accuracy scores for thousands of media outlets based on partisan slant as well as track record with factual reporting. This helps users understand potential biases when evaluating news reports.
- Logic Trees - For complex issues, TheFactual provides logic trees exploring the nuances from multiple perspectives. This aims to promote good faith disagreements grounded in shared facts.
- Cite Sources - When sharing facts/arguments, users can automatically append credible citations to back up their claims.
- Community - Users can engage in civil debate and productive dialogue around contested issues by focusing discussions on evidence-based facts rather than unproductive partisan attacks.
By combining AI with transparency, multidimensional perspectives, and reliable sources, TheFactual aims to be a balanced media literacy platform that promotes truthful, evidenced-based discourse.