Collection
A deadline-aware verification stack for reporters who need defensible checks without a heavy security toolchain.
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Internet Archive
Historical web captures for deleted or changed pages
Best for: Historical web-page review, deleted-page recovery, source preservation, claim timelines, profile changes, and before/after web evidence.
Historical web captures for deleted or changed pages
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Harvard Library Innovation Lab
Scholarly and legal web citation preservation
Best for: Use it when a cited web source needs a durable reference for legal, academic, policy, or investigative documentation.
Scholarly and legal web citation preservation
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Search published fact checks across indexed sources
Best for: Discovering published fact-checks, claim-review articles, repeated rumor variants, and prior reporting around a public claim.
Search published fact checks across indexed sources
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TinEye
Reverse-image search for reuse and chronology checks
Best for: Reverse-image corroboration, earlier-publication checks, image reuse detection, modified-copy discovery, and quick visual-claim triage.
Reverse-image search for reuse and chronology checks
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InVID / WeVerify
Newsroom toolkit for image and video verification
Best for: Frame-level video and image verification, keyframe extraction, reverse-search preparation, metadata clues, and visual-claim triage.
Newsroom toolkit for image and video verification
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Phil Harvey
Local metadata extraction for files and media
Best for: Reading, comparing, exporting, and cleaning metadata from local image, video, audio, PDF, and document files during verification workflows.
Local metadata extraction for files and media
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urlscan GmbH
URL render, screenshot, and network trace capture
Best for: Capturing a URL render, screenshot, DOM/network trace, redirects, loaded resources, and visible page behavior during phishing, web-evidence, or…
URL render, screenshot, and network trace capture
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Sentinel Hub
Browser-based satellite imagery exploration
Best for: Browser-based satellite imagery comparison by date, location, cloud coverage, data collection, visualization layer, and time window.
Browser-based satellite imagery exploration
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NASA Earthdata
NASA satellite imagery browsing
Best for: Use it when a geospatial question needs environmental, fire, smoke, weather, or satellite-layer context over time.
NASA satellite imagery browsing
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SunCalc
Sun and shadow checks for visual verification
Best for: Sunlight, shadow, time-of-day, and geolocation support when a known or suspected location can be tested.
Sun and shadow checks for visual verification
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OpenStreetMap community
OpenStreetMap query interface for geospatial clues
Best for: Querying OpenStreetMap features, tags, routes, amenities, infrastructure, and geographic context around a specific area or route.
OpenStreetMap query interface for geospatial clues
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OpenCorporates
Company registry search for legal-entity grounding
Best for: First-pass company verification, jurisdiction lookup, company-number checks, officer/director pivots, and public-register source discovery.
Company registry search for legal-entity grounding
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UK Government
Primary UK company registry and filing search
Best for: Primary UK company identity, company-number, officer, filing, status, charge, and document checks.
Primary UK company registry and filing search
Editorial proof card
Epieos
Email and profile investigation
Best for: Email, phone, username, and account-clue enrichment during source vetting, people research, and early identity-corroboration workflows.
Email and profile investigation
Workflow notes
This collection is designed for small newsrooms, freelancers, and editors who need to verify fast-moving claims without pretending every assignment deserves a full forensic workflow.
A story needs a defensible first pass on claim history, visual reuse, source-file metadata, suspicious links, geospatial context, or identity clues under deadline pressure.
This stack helps a newsroom verify faster, not perfectly. If the story expands into corporate or infrastructure research, widen the workflow with OpenCorporates, SecurityTrails, or Shodan.
