Question 1

Is BSmeter a Factmata alternative?

Accepted Answer

Only for one slice of what Factmata does. If what you wanted was to check whether specific claims are true — especially in video or audio — then yes, BSmeter does that, per claim, with sources linked, free. But if you wanted narrative monitoring across news and social media, influencer stance detection, or content-risk scoring at scale, BSmeter is not an alternative and won't pretend to be. It analyzes one link at a time and has no monitoring or alerting at all.

Question 2

Can I still sign up for Factmata?

Accepted Answer

Not as a standalone product. Cision acquired Factmata in November 2022 and integrated its narrative-monitoring and content-scoring technology into Cision's media-monitoring platform. Access is through Cision's enterprise sales process, not self-serve signup, and there's no public consumer pricing. This is a normal outcome for good B2B technology, not a knock on the product — it just means individuals looking for a fact-checking tool need to look elsewhere.

Question 3

Does Factmata fact-check YouTube videos or podcasts?

Accepted Answer

Its publicly documented work centers on text — news articles, blogs, tweets and social chatter — scored across signals like toxicity, political bias and clickbait. We're not aware of video or audio claim-checking being part of its offering, and we won't guess at what it may do inside Cision's platform today. BSmeter is explicitly built for it: it transcribes the video or podcast, extracts each verifiable claim, cross-references it against live web sources, returns a 0-100 credibility score with the evidence, and also flags logical fallacies and deepfake/AI-generated media signals. The extension does this while you watch, in Roast, Analyze or Learn mode.