TrueStandard
Your editor asks how you checked it. Two dozen claims drafted with AI and no record of which ones you verified, or how.
Every claim labeled and timestamped. Three challenged, two partial, the rest verified — and a report you can hand to the desk.
No Fact-Checking Desk. No Problem.
You don't have a newsroom fact-checking team. But you still need the rigor. TrueStandard checks every claim in your story with four independent AI models before you file.
March 2026: Ars Technica reporter fired for publishing AI-hallucinated quotes. — Hacker News, 800+ comments
01 The Freelance Journalist's AI Problem
47% of ChatGPT-generated citations are inaccurate or fabricated
AI invents quotes, cites papers that don't exist, and attributes findings to real institutions that never published them.
Reporter fired. $5,000 court fines. Public embarrassment.
The Ars Technica firing. The lawyer sanctions. You publish under your name. One fabricated quote is all it takes.
No fact-checker, no editor, no research assistant
You're one person with a deadline. Checking a piece by hand eats the better part of an hour. AI was supposed to make you faster.
02 See What TrueStandard Catches Before You File
A health newsletter draft with wrong claims. The same patterns appear in journalism.
Gate A · four labs, no self-grading Gate B · no claim ships unlabeled
New research confirms intermittent fasting reduces inflammation by 70%.
It goes out to 50,000 subscribers. One reader checks the number. The screenshot outlives the issue.
Trials of intermittent fasting found a modest drop in some inflammation markers, such as CRP.
17 minutes of fixes. No correction email — and a report that shows exactly what you checked.
'Extend Lifespan by Up to 20 Years'
No human study supports this claim. The 10-15% lifespan extension it echoes comes from rodent work. Extrapolating that to '20 years' in humans is unsupported.
'A Harvard Study'
Multiple Harvard-affiliated studies on fasting exist with varying conclusions. No specific paper, authors, or year cited.
17 minutes of fixes prevents a correction email to 50,000 subscribers
Sample draft · 1,200 words · checked in 52 seconds
Without TrueStandard, the journalist publishes a sourced claim that doesn't check out. An expert reader catches it, tweets it, and the correction goes viral.
03 How TrueStandard Replaces a Fact-Checking Desk
Every claim checked against evidence
Paste your story. Four AI models independently verify every statistic, quote, and sourced claim. You see where they agree and where they split.
Are your sources real?
TrueStandard flags citations that don't exist, sources that don't say what you claim, and quotes that look fabricated.
What you missed
Four models find gaps a single read wouldn't catch — missing context, unconsidered angles, claims that will age badly.
File on deadline, not after it
Sixty seconds instead of sixty minutes, with the same rigor.
04 File Stories with the Rigor of a Larger Newsroom
Four AI models. 60 seconds. Every claim, every citation, every quote — checked before it goes out under your byline.
Also written for solo newsletter publishers, content teams.