Trace · claim workbench
Walk a claim back to its source
Paste anything you're about to share. We look it up against real sources and lay the retellings out as a trail you can read across.
- Read the claim as written — note the strongest word in it.
- Pull the sources below and find the earliest, most original one.
- Compare how each retelling changed the wording. The drift is the story.
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?
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