TraceTRACEBeta
How to use
  1. Paste a claim or headline (or pick an example).
  2. Walk the trail back toward its first appearance.
  3. 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.