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The Trust Feed SUPPORTED · Fact-checking organizations cannot keep pace with the volume of claims published onlineREFUTED · Henry Ford stated that if he had asked customers what they wanted they would have said faster horsesREFUTED · Goldfish have a memory span of only three secondsREFUTED · The Great Wall of China is visible from space with the naked eyeREFUTED · Humans only use 10 percent of their brainsCOMMON KNOWLEDGE · Phonological evolution involves regular processes of phoneme elision, vowel nasalization, and tonogenesisSUPPORTED · Fact-checking organizations cannot keep pace with the volume of claims published onlineREFUTED · Henry Ford stated that if he had asked customers what they wanted they would have said faster horsesREFUTED · Goldfish have a memory span of only three secondsREFUTED · The Great Wall of China is visible from space with the naked eyeREFUTED · Humans only use 10 percent of their brainsCOMMON KNOWLEDGE · Phonological evolution involves regular processes of phoneme elision, vowel nasalization, and tonogenesis
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The problem: the internet runs on unproven claims.

Most of what you read is asserted, not sourced. AI made it faster to assert and no easier to check.

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the claim
Fact-checking organizations cannot keep pace with the volume of claims published online
the verdict
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the evidence backs this
refutedsupported
the weight of evidence
3 sources for · 0 against

Evidence consistently shows that traditional, manual fact-checking organizations struggle and ultimately fail to keep pace with the sheer volume of claims published online, motivating the development of automated computational tools.

Evidence for · 3
2015 · cited by 502
Traditional fact-checking by expert journalists cannot keep up with the enormous volume of information generated online.
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The analysis

The claim that fact-checking organizations cannot keep pace with the volume of online claims is widely supported in the literature, notably by older foundational work (e.g., Ciampaglia et al., 2015) as well as recent automated fact-checking studies (e.g., Hu et al., 2026; Chen et al., 2025) emphasizing the need for AI solutions due to human scalability limits. There are no papers refuting this widely acknowledged constraint.

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2026 · cited by 0
Human moderators face significant challenges regarding scalability when attempting to keep pace with the volume of online misinformation.
2025 · cited by 0
Traditional manual fact-checking approaches are resource-intensive and unable to match the pace at which misinformation spreads online.
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A real paper: authors, year, DOI, in your format.
Cepeda, N. J., Pashler, H., Vul, E., Wixted, J. T., & Rohrer, D. (2006). Distributed practice in verbal recall tasks: A review and quantitative synthesis. Psychological Bulletin, 132(3), 354–380.
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For arguments
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The Great Wall of China is visible from space with the naked eye
the verdict
REFUTED
the evidence says no
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the weight of evidence
0 sources for · 3 against

The claim that the Great Wall of China is visible from space with the naked eye is a widespread myth. Scientific sources and fact-checkers confirm that the wall cannot be readily distinguished from space without magnification.

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Fact-checker ruling: False
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How claims like this are judged

Judged on the fact-checker and reference record: claims of this kind are settled by fact-checkers and reference works, not journal abstracts.

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the claim
Henry Ford stated that if he had asked customers what they wanted they would have said faster horses
the verdict
REFUTED
the evidence says no
refutedsupported
the weight of evidence
0 sources for · 1 against

Wikiquote lists this among quotations MISATTRIBUTED to Henry Ford โ€” the words are widely repeated as theirs, and the archive records that they are not. Patrick Vlaskovits, "Henry Ford, Innovation, and That "Faster Horse" Quote," in "Harvard Business Review" (August 29, 2011).

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Patrick Vlaskovits, "Henry Ford, Innovation, and That "Faster Horse" Quote," in "Harvard Business Review" (August 29, 2011).
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Judged against the evidence record for claims of this kind.

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Goldfish have a memory span of only three seconds
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the evidence says no
refutedsupported
the weight of evidence
0 sources for · 3 against

Scientific consensus and fact-checking sources debunk the idea that goldfish only have a three-second memory, proving their memory spans last for months.

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Humans only use 10 percent of their brains
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the evidence says no
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Scientific evidence, neuroscience, and fact-checkers overwhelmingly confirm that the idea that humans only use 10 percent of their brains is a widely held myth.

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Fact-checker ruling: False
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Judged on the fact-checker and reference record: claims of this kind are settled by fact-checkers and reference works, not journal abstracts.

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What's the difference between a citation and a receipt?

A citation points at a paper: authors, year, DOI, formatted for your essay. A receipt settles a question: the claim, the verdict, the evidence both ways and the confidence score, on a public link you can drop into any thread.

Who is this actually for?

Two people. Someone mid-argument who knows they read it somewhere and needs the source in ten seconds, and someone mid-essay who has written forty confident sentences and needs the ones that will not survive a marker. Same engine, two surfaces: the popup for the first, the workspace for the second.

What does it work on?

Any claim or question, typed on the site or highlighted on any webpage via the extension. Essay drafts by paste today; claim detection inside file uploads and Google Docs is on the roadmap.

Can I use this inside my own product?

Yes. The Trust API is the same engine behind one endpoint: POST a claim, get back a verdict, real sources and a confidence score. It is priced per claim rather than per seat, and it is what you want if you are building something that cites facts and cannot afford to invent them. Full pricing and access are on the API page.

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