FolksLore

Check the story

Understand the origin of ideas

Enter the details of the idea, theory, “fact” or argument and we’ll try to get to the bottom of it:

 

Nothing you enter is published, and you don’t need an account.

Two quick questions

A little context

Neither answer changes the verdict — where something came from doesn’t make it true or false. They help us trace the trail and pitch the answer usefully.

Where did you get this?

The chain a claim travelled down is often the most revealing part of it.

How long have you been aware of it?

Something you heard this morning and something you’ve turned over for years deserve different answers.

What happens next

The analysis engine isn’t connected yet.

This is a design prototype. Below is what this page will contain once the checking is wired up — shown here so the shape can be argued with before anything is built.

Claims, separatedMost forwarded messages bundle several assertions together — one accurate, one real study misrepresented, one invented. Each gets pulled out and handled on its own, because a single verdict over the bundle tells you nothing.
How each one fails, if it doesNot a score. A reason: fabricated, real source misrepresented, true but irrelevant, unfalsifiable, or genuinely unresolved. Some things honestly aren’t known yet, and this will say so.
Where it came fromThe trail back — the original post, paper, broadcast or product listing, and how the claim changed as it travelled. Usually the most interesting part.
Sources you can check yourselfLive links to primary material, never a summary you have to take on trust. Every citation resolves, or it doesn’t appear.
Your right of replyIf you think the answer is wrong, you say why, and it gets re-examined properly rather than restated louder.

FolksLore is politically impartial by design. Every claim is examined the same way regardless of who it came from or which direction it points, and the method is published in full.

FolksLore runs on Claude, made by Anthropic. It works from sources you can open and check yourself — and it can still be wrong. Yes: you could be right.