How to use
- Paste a claim or headline (or pick an example).
- Walk the trail back toward its first appearance.
- See exactly what mutated, and where the evidence sits.
Trace · verify before you share
Where did this claim really start?
Enter a claim — we look it up against real sources and lay out the trail.
Examples
“New study proves coffee causes memory loss.”
Origin
Small preprint, n=14, hedged: 'may be associated with'.
Blog rewrite
Caveats dropped; 'linked to' becomes the headline.
Aggregator
'Linked to' becomes 'causes'.
Viral post
'Causes' becomes 'proven' — far from the source.
What is lateral reading?
Seed example shown. Enter a claim to pull real sources via Brave search — provenance, not a true/false stamp.