Learn
Guides for checking a news story yourself, one step at a time. Each guide below points to the NTN tool that runs the same check, so you can look at the evidence directly instead of taking our word for it.
How to spot fake news
A six-step checklist for checking a story yourself — the source, the headline, the quote, who covered it, whether it changed, and who's behind it — with the NTN tool for each step.
Biased news examples
Worked examples of framing, omission, and headline-vs-body gaps, shown next to the source text so you can compare them yourself.
What is media bias fact-checking?
What media bias fact-checking actually involves, how it differs from an opinion or a single bias rating, and what a checkable claim looks like.
The tools
Every guide above links to one of these. Each tool publishes a source citation and a confidence level, and links back to the methodology behind it.
Revision Tracker
Article text changes tracked across two or more confirmed captures, with a full diff.
Headline vs. Body
Checks whether a headline's claim is stated in the article's body text.
Quote-omission
Flags when a quote reported by another outlet is omitted from an article's own account.
Coverage ledger
A record of which outlets in NTN's tracked universe did, and did not, cover a given story.
Provenance
Checks published images for a content credential, and states plainly when none is present.
Methodology
How NTN captures, confirms, and labels everything it publishes.