| What gets fact-checked | Any video or podcast you paste — YouTube, TikTok, Instagram Reels, any creator, any topic, on demand | Stories BBC Verify's journalists judge newsworthy — heavily weighted toward conflict, foreign affairs, and viral news imagery |
| Turnaround | Minutes — automated transcription, claim extraction, and cross-referencing | Hours to days; published when the reporting stands up to BBC editorial standards |
| Who (or what) does the analysis | AI models cross-referencing live web sources. Fast and broad, but it can misread context and get things wrong | Specialist human journalists using OSINT, satellite imagery, geolocation, and forensic techniques — depth no automated tool currently matches |
| What you get back | Per-claim 0-100 credibility scores with evidence links, plus logical-fallacy and AI-generated/deepfake media flags | Narrative explainers and broadcast segments that show the working — how a conclusion was reached, not just the verdict |
| Use while watching | Chrome/Firefox extension flags claims in sync as the video plays, alongside relevant viewer comments | No consumer tool — you read or watch the finished verification after publication |
| Editorial accountability & track record | No newsroom, no named reporters, no corrections desk — the evidence links are there so you can check the work yourself | Named journalists, BBC editorial standards, Ofcom regulation, and a corrections process; rated among the UK's most trusted fact-checking sources by the Reuters Institute |