Signal 01
53%
Pew says 53 percent of U.S. adults at least sometimes got news from social media in its Sept. 25, 2025 fact sheet.
Adults getting news from social media
Pew Research CenterSTATEMENT-LEVEL REVIEW
Truth
& Lies
Truth & Lies is where clip culture meets the document trail. This page uses public benchmarks for social, podcast, and influencer news to show how people encounter claims, then grounds the reporting in transcripts, votes, appropriations, audits, and oversight records.
No public deception leaderboard
Statement, source record, and method all required
Page review date: March 31, 2026
Verified Public Signals
What The Current Environment Looks Like
These are not verdicts about any specific politician or creator. They are the current conditions under which claims now travel, get trusted, and need to be checked.
Signal 02
32%
Pew says around a third of U.S. adults got news from podcasts at least sometimes in its Sept. 25, 2025 fact sheet.
Adults getting news from podcasts
Pew Research CenterSignal 03
21%
Pew says 21 percent of U.S. adults regularly got news from news influencers on social media in its Nov. 4, 2025 fact sheet.
Adults regularly getting news from influencers
Pew Research CenterSignal 04
52%
Among adults who get news from influencers, Pew says 52 percent think most of those influencers are independent and not connected to a news organization.
Influencer audiences who say most sources are independent
Pew Research CenterCurrent Files
Where The Verification Weight Lives
The older public page promised broad truth scoring. The current version is narrower and more useful: one claim, one record trail, one visible method at a time.
File 01
Capture The Whole Claim
A public claim is not just the sentence that goes viral. It is the clip, caption, transcript, original forum, and omitted context that travel with it. This page treats the full claim package as the unit of verification.
File 02
Record Before Verdict
The first public task is not deciding whether a speaker is lying. It is pinning the statement to a dated source record and checking whether the supporting documents even exist in the form the clip implies.
File 03
Trust Needs A Paper Trail
Influencer and podcast news can feel more direct than institutional reporting, but that often means fewer visible editorial guardrails. The verification job is to restore provenance, not to assume malice.
File 04
Reopen The Compression
Narrative compression is where a complicated hearing, audit, or budget fight gets reduced to one emotionally efficient line. This page exists to reopen that compression and show readers the missing record.
Current Read
What This Page Can Already Say In Public
Perceived Independence Matters
Pew says 52 percent of adults who get news from influencers think most of those influencers are independent and not connected to a news organization. That makes provenance and affiliation disclosure part of the fact-checking job.
Clarity And Authenticity Travel Together
Pew says 54 percent of adults who regularly get news from influencers cite help understanding current events as a major reason, and 49 percent cite authenticity. Readers are often buying explanatory trust before they buy a factual claim.
The Verification Surface Expanded
With 53 percent of U.S. adults at least sometimes getting news from social media and 32 percent getting news from podcasts, verification now has to meet people in feeds, clips, and long-form audio, not just official statements.
Reporting Queue
What This Investigation Is Building Next
Take transcript-derived claims from podcasts and clips, then map each one to hearings, votes, appropriations, audits, or agency records.
Track where a claim changes shape as it moves from long-form conversation to short clip, headline, or creator commentary.
Build repeatable fact-check formats that show the statement, full context, relevant record, and unresolved uncertainty in one view.
Separate falsifiable claims from worldview language so the public page does not pretend every rhetorical flourish is fact-checkable.
Source Stack
Records Behind The Page
Pew Social Media and News Fact Sheet
Current benchmark for how many U.S. adults now encounter news through social platforms.
Pew Podcasts and News Fact Sheet
Current benchmark for podcast news reach and trust comparisons with other sources.
Pew News Influencers Fact Sheet
Current benchmark for influencer news reach, reasons for trust, and perceived independence from newsrooms.
Congress.gov
Bills, status summaries, and votes used when public claims depend on federal legislation or appropriations.
Congressional Record
Official remarks and floor proceedings used to anchor what was actually said.
GAO Reports
Audit and evaluation records used to check whether outcome claims match public evidence.
Oversight.gov
Inspector general reports for enforcement, fraud, waste, and implementation claims.
Cross-System Link
Why This Investigation Matters
Truth & Lies now sits between Mind Control and the public record. One page explains how claims spread; this page shows how a specific claim earns, loses, or keeps credibility when the record is opened.
Publication 01
Show The Statement And Method
No public truth-audit entry goes live without the original statement, the relevant source record, and the evaluation method linked on the page.
Publication 02
No Personality Rankings
We do not use deception leaderboards, truth scores, or personality rankings. This page checks claims, not souls.
Publication 03
Say When The Record Is Mixed
If the source record is mixed or incomplete, the public page says so directly instead of overclaiming certainty.