About NewsFacts
NewsFacts keeps a neutral, timestamped public record of how news articles change after publication.
Online stories are living documents. Headlines are rewritten as events develop, figures are corrected, quotes are trimmed, and sometimes whole paragraphs disappear. Most of that is ordinary, careful journalism. But readers rarely see it, and once a page changes, the earlier version is usually gone.
NewsFacts exists so the earlier version is never gone. We save each version of stories from dozens of outlets and show precisely what changed and when. We don't rate outlets or guess at motives. We keep the record and make it easy to read.
Who runs it
NewsFacts is an independent project of Giordano Inc. It is not affiliated with any news organization, political party or campaign.
Principles
- The record, not a verdict. We report what changed. Readers draw their own conclusions.
- Same rules for everyone. Every outlet is collected and compared the same way.
- Collected fairly. Honest crawler, robots.txt obeyed, no paywall workarounds.
- Corrections welcome. If we got something wrong, we fix it and say so.