Question 1

Is BSmeter a Les Décodeurs alternative?

Accepted Answer

Honestly, no — not as a replacement. Les Décodeurs is a newsroom producing reported, edited fact-checks with a journalist accountable for each one; BSmeter is an automated tool with no reporters. If your need is "check this video now," BSmeter fits and Les Décodeurs was never built for it. If your need is "give me a trustworthy, contextualised verdict on a French political claim," read Les Décodeurs — BSmeter is not a substitute for that.

Question 2

Can Les Décodeurs fact-check a YouTube video for me?

Accepted Answer

They do verify claims that circulate widely, including claims that originate in videos, but what gets checked is an editorial decision made by the desk, and reporting takes time. There's no service where you submit a link and get that video analysed. That gap is the specific thing BSmeter fills: paste the link, get every claim extracted and scored in minutes.

Question 3

Décodex stopped working — is BSmeter's extension a replacement?

Accepted Answer

Not really, and it's worth being precise about why. Décodex rated *sources* — it told you whether a website or account was reliable, from a database Le Monde's journalists maintained. The tool was retired from Le Monde's site (the paper still runs a public verification search page). BSmeter's browser extension rates *claims* inside a video, one at a time, against live sources. It answers "is this statement true," not "is this outlet trustworthy" — a genuinely different question.