Every paragraph says what it rests on.
The text is broken into checkable claims. Each gets a verdict, a confidence and its sources — and sits next to the paragraph it belongs to.
What you can do with it
- Extract a draft's claims paragraph by paragraph and have each one checked.
- Tell four outcomes apart: Supported, Partly supported, Unsupported, Unclear — colour-coded, so the picture is visible at a glance.
- Read the confidence, the assessment in plain language and the sources used, per paragraph.
- Switch on paid web search for the fact-check deliberately — it is off by default, because deep research searches anyway.
- Run the check as an automatic stage, limited to stories above a chosen news value.
The thinking behind it
The verdicts sat as a block below the editor: a list along the lines of “paragraph 3: partly supported”, which you had to reconcile with the text above it in your head. Anyone checking a sentence was doing the mapping themselves.
Now the evidence sits next to its paragraph. You see the mapping instead of constructing it. On narrow screens the evidence slides under the paragraph so the text field stays usable.
Verdicts are anchored to the paragraph index; if that is missing, the order serves as a fallback. And they are translated — the raw English values used to show up in the interface.
You should see the mapping, not construct it.
Improvements
Evidence sits next to its paragraph
Verdict, confidence, assessment and sources now sit level with the paragraph they belong to, colour-coded by outcome. Below 900 pixels of width the evidence slides under the paragraph so the editor stays usable.
Verdicts in plain language
The raw values supported / partly_supported / unsupported / unclear appeared untranslated in the interface. They now read as Supported, Partly supported, Unsupported and Unclear.
Web search can be switched off — and is off by default
Fact-check and deep research each ran one web search per story. That was the single largest line on the bill. Switched off, the fact-check tests the story's own factual footing; searching is what research is for.
No longer stalls on an empty window
If the stage found nothing in the recent time window, it stopped doing anything at all. It now falls back to the entire inventory, newest first. Provider errors — an exhausted balance, say — appear as a notice in the interface instead of only in the log.
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