How It Works

From a single link to
the full media picture.

SourceTrace works across two surfaces — a web app and a WhatsApp bot — both powered by the same cross-source intelligence engine.

WhatsApp Bot

Fact-check any link without leaving your chat.

1

Forward any article link

Send a news URL to the SourceTrace WhatsApp number — directly or from a group chat. No app to install, no account required.

2

We scrape and search

The bot extracts the article title and body, then searches Google News for every other outlet covering the same story. Results arrive in seconds.

3

Receive a scored summary

You get a confidence score, a two-sentence synthesis of where sources agree or differ, and a numbered list of outlets with their individual angles — all in one WhatsApp message.

4

Drill deeper with buttons

Tap Detailed Analysis for a source-by-source breakdown, or Language Coverage to find how the story is covered in Malayalam, Hindi, Arabic, and 12+ other languages.

Cross-Language Search

The same story, told in 12+ languages — found automatically.

1

Pick your language

After a fact-check, tap Language Coverage and choose from Malayalam, Hindi, Tamil, Arabic, and more. No separate search needed.

2

We find local coverage

SourceTrace searches for the same story across news outlets that publish in your chosen language — the ones that rarely show up in an English-first feed.

3

Read the story from a local lens

A regional outlet in Kerala, a Hindi daily, an Arabic broadcaster — they often frame the same event very differently. Now you can see how.

4

The most relevant results, curated

You get a short, clean list of the most relevant articles in that language — no noise, no irrelevant results, just the stories that actually match.

Spider View

Cross-source coverage on the web — in seconds.

1

Paste or search any story

Drop a headline, keyword, or article URL into Spider View. The engine normalises your query and searches across dozens of tracked sources simultaneously.

2

We find every outlet covering it

SourceTrace queries Google News and its own ingestion pipeline to surface every major outlet reporting on the same event — in real time, across languages.

3

AI scores cross-source consistency

A language model reads the headlines and body text from each source, scores how consistently they frame the story (0–1), and synthesises where they agree or diverge.

4

Explore the radial web

Results are laid out in an interactive Spider View — the centre article radiates outward to every outlet covering the story. Click any node to read the original source. Share the full view with one link.

Developer API

Embed cross-source intelligence into your own product.

1

Get an API key

Sign up and generate a key from your profile. Sandbox access is available immediately for testing against a live dataset.

2

Call one endpoint

POST a URL or headline to the Spider endpoint. The API returns a structured JSON response: consistency score, synthesis, per-source sentences, and article metadata.

3

Render however you like

Use the response to power your own UI — a fact-check widget, a newsroom dashboard, a browser extension, or a Slack bot. The data model is stable and versioned.

View API documentation →